Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for sharing this information... I have a Viso II, probably a IIa, based on some descriptions I've read. The only lenses I have for it are a 65 Elmar and a 200 Telyt. A while back, someone indicated that I might be able to use my old 90 Elmar with the Viso for limited close up work. I don't know if I interpretted that correctly... The notion of a bellows and the need to acquire a number of adapters was mentioned earlier. I might go there eventually, but I can keep myself busy without doing macro... at least until my M2 returns from a CLA... Thanks again for your comments... Regard, Gary > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:28:41 -0400 > From: mark at rabinergroup.com > To: lug at leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens: Response to > Mark > > In response to which macro for the M2; > Macro is not supposed to be in a rangefinder cameras ballgame yet we more > than make do. I love Viso but don't think its necessary to bring along on a > trip for close-ups. And though the dual range is highlight thought of I'm > not likely to own one soon. > > I had a chart from the late 90s on my fridge for the longest time of all > the > Leica glass which filters they fit and what the smallest magnification they > fit. I recall my 135mm f/3.4 Apo Telyt M get in very tightly. Parallax > never > bothered me all that much. > The current 90's get in fairly tightly as well. > As does a plain vanilla 50 Summicron. > > If you want to shoot a be on a flower then get a Viso or carry along a > Nikon > body with a 100 macro on the front of it. > When it bumps up against your Leica in your bag it wont be the first time. > Or get a Leica SL or R and 100 macro I bet those are going for good deals. > > > Super pricy high end German enlarging lenes costing hundreds now can be > found in most grab boxes at the camera stores with the bent filter rings > and > flash cases. For a song. > Play around with those but as its an M2 you don't get TTL. Whoopee!, I'd > get > an M6 for that or skip it. > > Oh you'd want a bellows with your Viso that's gotten to be just part of the > deal. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Gary Dalton <grdalton at hotmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:41:56 -0700 > > To: LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens: Response to > > Mark > > > > > > You make an excellent point. > > > > In the "29 posts" -- I hope you didn't take time to count them all -- the > > subject of equipment certainly dominates, and there isn't a word from me > > or a > > question from others about how a certain lens or lenses might drive what > > I am > > interested in doing. So here are my notions. > > > > I like to shoot people, up close in their environment, with substantial > > background near and around them. I want the shot to grab enough of the > > surroundings to tell the story of who they are, where they are, what > > artifacts > > are in their environment, and what they're doing. I would like to do a > > better > > job of this especially in tight quarters. > > > > I like to take photos of urban settings: I want that building, fountain, > > plaza, park, intersection, etc. -- all of it -- not pieces of it. And, > > if not > > a dominating feature, I want as much of that specific feature's > > environmental > > context as possible. > > > > I can say something similar about natural outdoor settings. Panoramas > > interest > > me as do massive natural structures or living things. I want to shoot > > all of > > El Capitan at sunset and include the trees, the sky, the ripples Merced > > River > > in natural proportion in the same shot. I would like to capture the > > desolation > > and the expanse of, say, a ghost town like Bodie, but with the artifacts > > (buildings and mills, etc.) not lost in that expanse. I want all of a > > Giant > > Sequoia. > > > > Finally, and not related to the Voigtlander 21, I love macro work. > > Sticking a > > macro lens down the mouth of a bearded iris for its brilliant colors, > > shades, > > and shapes -- and whatever else might be inside. I'd like to take a shot > > of a > > seed pushing out of the dirt, a bee in an almond blossom, and a paper > > wasp > > constructing its nest. > > > > Is that better, Mark? With respect to macro work with an M2, which lens > > would > > you suggest? > > > > > > > > > >> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:35:18 -0400 > >> From: mark at rabinergroup.com > >> To: lug at leica-users.org > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Your thoughts on a Voigtl ? nder Lens > >> > >> Wide enough for WHAT!???? > >> > >> No ones asking and your not saying. > >> On a thread of 29 posts. > >> > >> Me I'm tired of my ball peen hammer I'm thinking of getting a framing > >> hammer.... Its all so meaningless! > >> > >> A lens is a tool; > >> Talk PHOTOGRAPHY! > >> WHAT KIND DO YOU DO????? > >> SUBJECT MATTER??? > >> URL for a gallery? > >> > >> > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> > >> > >> > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. 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