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Subject: [Leica] Leica Visoflex
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sun Aug 3 00:40:25 2008

Hi Mark,
I have Nikon "visoflex" for my Nikon SP. Haven't used
it in over 10 years, but am not inclined to sell it!
Frank

--- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Its lucky this thing says "Leica Visoflex".
> 
> I thought Viso was Leica thing all this time having
> looked at the Leica
> catalogs for years since the 60's. I thought a
> catalog so amazingly varied
> like this was Leica only.
> 
> Turns out Nikon, Canon and who knows who else all
> has reflex mechanisms and
> there were third party people turning them out.
> 
> I'm not saying this like its new news. But I don't
> think everyone has
> absorbed it fully.
> 
> Leica had all the microscope stuff in it the others
> didn't have though.
> They got past macro into the micro zone. That could
> be the big difference.
> 
> 
> 
> mark@rabinergroup.com
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:29:54 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica visoflex
> > 
> > Good to hear about your good fortunes, both
> photographically and with
> > your garden, Tina.
> > 
> > Up here in wet Ottawa, my tomatoes are still
> green.  My harvesting time
> > will be in September.  I have a tiny (3 foot by 4
> foot) spot that gets
> > sun; the rest of the yard is shaded by house and
> fences, and I garden
> > that little plot.  It's nowhere enough to live on,
> but very calming to
> > know that I can grow something.
> > 
> > ...Vick
> > 
> > 
> > Tina Manley wrote:
> >> ...... of some of the tomatoes, peppers, corn and
> eggplant harvested
> >> from our garden (that did fine in spite of being
> left for two weeks!)
> >> We have 12 tomato plants and they had an average
> of 85 ripe tomatoes
> >> per plant when we got home.  I've been very busy
> drying, freezing, and
> >> canning stuff!
> >> 
> >> I hope to post some photos in the next couple of
> days.
> >> 
> >> Tina
> >> 
> >> Tina Manley
> >> www.tinamanley.com
> > 
> > 
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