Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote > <<<<<<<< > I still have my Voigtl?nder Vito BL, Color-Skopar 1:2,8/50, Prontor SVS > shutter > http://www.pbase.com/cendres/image/87098035 > http://www.enter-net.de/auktion/photo/vitobl.htm#Near > I got it in 1965 when I was 14 > > My grandfather gave it to my dad and he gave it to me when he got his > Contarex bulls eye. > I used it for 7 years till I got my Nikon F2. > I shot this with it > http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/Motherchildindoorpage.html > Lead poisoning victims. > I was going door to door with a Social Worker on the south side of Chicago > in 1968. >>>>>>>>>>> > > Nice image from a nice camera. I've a few Voigtlanders too, but not a Vito. > I've a Contessa, a four Perkeos, a Bessa 66 and three Bessa 6x9s. The only > problem is I don't use them much at the moment. Have to change that...... > > Douglas The view finder on my Vito could pretty much be ignored I used the aim and pray technique like of like Star Wars when they turned off their lasers at the end and went in with help from the Force I had a Leica rangefinder on my hot shoe for awhile my 8th grade teacher gave me. Till it fell off. By then I knew where 3 feet was. And 7. I think I also knew 10 feet. Mark William Rabiner