Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] Experience of Viso lenses on Hassy 200 series?
From: dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)
Date: Wed Aug 17 10:15:32 2005
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Good point about the mount and possible vignetting. In the LHSA article Jim 
Lager states there was no vignetting from infinity to closest focus. The 
adapter is a simple plant using the viso mounting thread.

He states "I would have never believed this scenario unless I actually 
experienced it personally"

Douglas Herr wrote:

> I don't know about the 125 or 200 but as far as I know the 280 will cover 
> 6x6.  If the adapter is a straight viso-to-hassie job you'll probably be 
> disappointed by the apparent lack of 6x6 coverage; the viso mount is the 
> constricting factor and you'll get vignetting.  If the adapter mounts the 
> lens head on the hassie you'll have better luck IMHO.
Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Experience of Viso lenses on Hassy 200 series?)
 In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr) ([Leica] Experience of Viso lenses on Hassy 200 series?)