Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:35 PM 1998-10-07 -0700, Mark Kronquist wrote: >Useful? I sold my Visoflex and bought an R outfit...the meter would not work >unless you replaced the SLR mirror with a pelicle mirror and recalibrated >the meter Hunh? This is absurd. As another poster noted, you simply swing the mirror up and meter. It works, and is remarkable easy once you've done it a few times. I shot a roll of SFX last week with some of my long lenses. You cannot mount short lenses, in general, to a Visoflex, though adapters are available to allow the use of first-generation rigid and DR 50mm Summicron heads. But, then, anything wider than a 50mm is, to me, boring, so that isn't a drawback. I don't seem to have the trouble focusing with a Visoflex which afflicts me when I try to use an SLR. And that is why I got out of Leica SLR some years back, and have concentrated on the Visoflex. It increases the capacity of the M and LTM cameras, and doesn't curse me with the terminal woes which afflict SLR's. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!