Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A - while a few of the long lenses in your list may be referred to as R glass, the vast majority of R glass is useless on the visoflex. No even relatively modern R lens will work on viso. B - with the extremely long flange to film/sensor plane measurement, very few (perhaps none) other slr lens are useable on a visoflex with anything near infinity focus. Sent from my iPad On Oct 7, 2010, at 5:44, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > a visoflex fits on an M body with no hacking. > And the lenes which can but easily put on that viso include easily a lot of > R glass. > 65 /4 Elmar Macro > 125/2.5 Hektor > 180/2.8 Tele-Elmarit > 200/4.5 Telyt > 200/4 Telyt > 280/4.8 Telyt > 400/5 Telyt > 400/5.6 Telyt > 400/6.8 Telyt > 560/5.6 Telyt > 560/6.8 Telyt > 800/6.3 Telyt > > http://www.cameraquest.com/viso4.htm > > And the detachable heads from all kinds of older Leitz glass > > I find the use of Viso's quite useful and intuitive and responsive. > Combined with the instant viewing gratification of shooting digital it > seems > like a great thing for all kinds of glass. > Enlarger glass at the top of the list. > I like many people had a bellows come with their viso. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > > >> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 02:53:15 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] "R" lenses on digital bodies >> >> I am wondering - how about hacking the front of the M9 off, then put a >> Visoflex-like device in front, but with R mount. >> >> Ta-da R solutions!!! >> >> But hopefully they will use a CNC machine, and not, say, a hack saw or >> even >> a dremel tool. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> >> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >> replies in your msgs. ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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