Re: [Leica] LHSA2002 survey results and visoflex

[tripspud <tripspud@transbay.net>]

Hi Mark!

      While we're on the suject of the Visoflex, which Leitz
90s and 135s allowed use at infinity via removable focusing
mounts?

      Is the Visoflex at all practical for the Novoflex quickfocus
system?  Are was it ever?  I guess there are way better choices
with the Novoflex tele system since adpts are available for many
cameras.

Cheers,

Rich Lahrson
Berkeley, California
tripsud@transbay.net



Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> >
> > the Q2 LHSA came today including the 2002 Survey results.  I found
> > most of the results unremarkable save for the 30% visoflex use!
> > or course, once per year qualifier, but never the less, i count myself
> > amongst a far less exclusive club than i would have imaginged.
> >
> > the digital schism demonstrated was strong and expected.
> >
> > -rei
> >
> > --
> > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> > Ridgewood, New Jersey
> >
>
> Rei I also am into Viso and have one. And the bellows. I think it is a
> quirk of this list that there is a negative spin put on the Viso and
> it's use.
> You can't even mention one without the same 2 or 3 guys jumping on it.
> Perhaps one of them sold their Viso for a Pentax Spotmatic with a macro
> lens and has been overcompensating and justifying for years.
> It opens up a million possibilities and i don't find it's use awkward.
> It just differs slightly in use from using a EOS strapped to your helmet
> as you free fall from a very great height.
> You'd have to duck tape the camera and lens to both hands. Someone would
> have to do that for you. And i think you'd find the wrong hand taped to
> the wrong part of the camera Viso combination at times. Velcro might be
> the answer!
>
> Naturally all 30% of the members are not putting their Viso's to good if
> any use, More so than other types of equipment like a motor drive. But
> plenty are getting some very amazing use out of it both in the macro and
> long telephoto areas.
> My next lens will be the 60 macro. A great knock around lens. I recall
> Roy Mosses article in the viewfinder on it. The pictures were neither
> macro nor long telephoto. They were just 60mm pictures. (I think at the
> beach) cropped normal i think of it.

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