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Subject: [Leica] Visoflex LTM to M?
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:17:54 -0400
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Wow Henning,

Good to hear from you

I could see using the Visoflex III on an M8, but Pana G1?  Wow, does the 
shutter arm go anywhere near to the correct spot on the G1 shutter release?

I have a GF1, I'll have to give it a try.

Vick


Henning Wulff wrote:
> ... I now use the 400/6.8 on a Canon 5DII, Viso III on M6, 7 & 8 and 
> on the Panasonic G1 and overall, it still works best on the Visoflex 
> but the other systems also make decent use of the lens.
>
> For macro work the focal lengths might not be that long, but because 
> of the extension the actual distance of the exit pupil from the film 
> plane is also quite long, so the optics also work well with that. For 
> this, actually, the Panasonic is best because of the auto brightening 
> of the screen, the magnification when manually focussing and the 2x 
> crop. The Aristophot never had it so good.
>
>



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