Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What actually happened was... they designed the Visoflex so people could use tele lenses and eliminate parallax on close-ups, with an RF camera. This worked so well, they said "lets build the Visoflex into the camera body". This will allow using any lens, any time, for any purpose. That was the Leicaflex. An M camera with a built-in Visoflex. They even put a meter in it and a MLU lever. Clever. Then came zoom lenses. What a concept! Built-in Visoflex, meter, MLU, zoom, whew... more than the old Leicaphiles could handle. Jim At 12:28 AM 12/3/98 +0000, you wrote: >On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:08:53 -0500, you wrote: > >> One thing that >>just occurred to me would be that since parallax error is a big >>problem with RF's they could think up something that would minimize >>or get rid of this totally, perhaps they could silver the front of >>the shutter and put a little fiber optic bundle beside the TTL >>metering cell and then route this to something in the finder, or >>something like that. > >You know, along this line, I've always wondered why they don't just >put a little mirror in front of the shutter, then have it just flip up >out of the way when you push the shutter rel... > ><Pardon?> ><....> ><Oh. Never mind...>