Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I need to take it outside! After shooting a steady diet of f1.0 exposures, I forgot how slow an f4.8 lens is. The bigger lenses, at f5.6 and f6.8 are really slow. I'll try it out this weekend if the sun is strong. -rei On 09/15/2010 09:47 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I'm surprised more people are not digital Visoflexing. > It strikes me as totally viable and way cool. > I'd love to get going in that direction. > > What are the shims for again? > > Shoot me a kitty with some light on its face! > > > > I can shimmy but I just can't shake!! > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: Rei Shinozuka<shino at panix.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:38:21 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Visoflexing >> >> George Lottermoser recently put up the nicest Viso picture I'd ever >> seen. Given that the M9 was in the hospital with a bad pixel, I thought >> I'd try my hand at the Viso thing with the M8. I've accumulated a big >> box of Viso gear in my closet, starting with a 280 Telyt-V and a Viso >> III I bought from Emanuel Lowi back in 2002. >> >> I'm not a bug guy or a macro guy, so here's my first "nature image." >> It's not Muffin's prettiest portrait, but it's much closer than I can >> get with my M lenses. And not a bad wide-open 1/60th second image for >> a 49-year-old lens: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/album_001/L8667972.JPG.html >> >> 280 Telyt-V + Televit + Visoflex III + M8 >> >> Since Visoflexes are pretty arcane these days, here's what the Viso >> setup itself looks like: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/L1060241.JPG.html >> >> NOTE: My Viso needed a little tweaking, on the M8 it was definitely >> showing close on the film/sensor plane compared to the ground glass >> image. I did some googling, and discovered that the Visoflex has shims >> under the ground glass carrier which can be used to correct the ground >> glass to the sensor. In my case, I had to add one thick and one thin >> shim, which I had handy from a junk box of Viso parts: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/xL1060221.JPG.html >> >> I might try the viso out on my daughters on the soccer field this >> weekend. While I doubt I'll be able to get good action shots, maybe >> I'll come home with something nice. Besides a sore arm--that stuff is >> heavy! >> >> -rei >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information