Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon Jun 2 17:20:30 2008

Other than Hassy glass the best deal in glass today is enlarging lenses.
333 dollar glass now gets sold for 33.3 usd.
And most that stuff is usably with a Viso and bellows from all I can tell.

....................
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:19:10 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
> 
> I looked at this before (75 Rodagon). Had questioned whether an enlarging 
> lens
> would be optimal.
> I'll try it out with the M8 and let you know/see....
> Thanks,
> Bob
> ?Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2008 4:00:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
> 
> My 135mm f4.5 Hektor head works on it till infinity.
> And that's a long ways away.
> 
> A 75mm f4 Apo Rodagon works with it optimized for 1:1
> Or 0.7x-1.3x to be exact
> 
> And other of my Nikkor enlarging lenses have worked.
> 
> An M8 would be a boom for the use of this stuff I've long said.
> 
> 
> 
> ....................
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
>> 
>> Pray tell what you use it with (which lenses?), ?and what for. I find mine
>> only useful for macro (when I say "only", I don't mean it in a negative 
>> way;
>> I
>> love doing macro with it!). Primarly Visoflex III with 135 or 90 M-bayonet
>> mount. Haven't found many other applications...
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>> ?Bob Adler
>> Palo Alto, CA
>> http://www.raflexions.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2008 3:40:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
>> 
>> Yes me too I love mine.
>> 
>> ....................
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:27:33 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] German interview with Che Guevara photographer
>>> 
>>> Don't know if you intended this with a smiley or tongue-in-cheek
>>> but
>>> I find my visoflex III elegant, justified, light weight, useable and
>>> versatile.
>>> 
>>> Fond regards,
>>> George
>>> george@imagist.com
>>> www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A device which has been proven on the LUG by our in house experts to
>>>> be completely unwieldy, unjustified and unusable.
>>> 
>>> 
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