[Leica] Visoflex on MP (II or III, bellows or....)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I'm looking forward to working extensively with my VISO III once I get my M8
which I think will be in the next very few months and get that instant
feedback. As macro stuff is tricky to say the least and when I had to do
such stuff I'd try to shoot Polaroid's with my Hasselblad to check
everything as I went.

The glass you can get to put in front of your bellows for your Viso nowadays
with people gleefully selling off their darkroom stuff like Lemmings for
their digital glee.

I have a Schneider 100mm f 2.8 Componon-S like new which I got for 84 bucks
but could have gotten new from my usual suspects for $400.

I have a head I can take of my f4.5 Hektor 135mm  which I use on my M6 which
I got for a hundred bucks which does great macro and focus to infinity.
Which is a long ways off. Not walking distance for me at least. That horizon
keeps moving away.

I have a $500 f4 Apo Rodagon Rodenstock enlarging or copy lens optimized at
0.8X to 1.2X which I got for $150.
That will be fun to make "captures" with. And print 13x19s out of. Head
shots of Gnats. Toenail shaving studies.
....the APO Rodagon-D is optimized for 1:1 reproduction. The lens may be
used over a range from 1:3 reduction to 3:1 magnification. ...

With digital every shot is in effect a Polaroid.
So macro stuff.
Trick flash stuff.
All kinds of quirky previously frustrating stuff you much want to do more of
now; as you don't get the bad mediocre news later on down the line or have
to burn up turns of film and hope for the best.

And various El Nikkor's including a 63mm.
Loads of fun from all over.
And resulting in macro images which could have not have been gotten any
other way.
At least without a fraction of the fun.
Which is makes you do it in the first place.
And without which you wouldn't do it.






Mark Rabiner

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