Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: 75/1.4 Summilux-M
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:30:08 -0800

So my statement is correct. You are comparing oranges with road apples. A
Viso is no different than using a bellows or extension tubes on an R camera
or Hasselblad. The entire discussion was about a 75/1.4 mounted directly on
the camera. And it still provides the largest image size on film, WITHOUT
resorting to MACRO or SLR attachments, of any normal, regular, M lens.

Hell... mount a 35 and 50 front to back, mount them on extentubes, on the
end of a completely extended bellows, and you'll fill the frame with flea
droppings. But the discussion was not about macro setups.

Jim

At 12:25 PM 11/27/99 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 08:57 AM 11/27/1999 -0800, Jim Brick wrote:
>>
>>at its closest focus
>>stop, it provides the largest image size on the film of any M lens.
>
>Well ... no.  Any of the lens-heads for the longer lenses (90mm and up) or
>the 3.5/65 Elmar will blow the image size of the 1.4/75 into the weeds.  Of
>course, this does require use of the Visoflex reflex housing, or its kin
>(Novoflex, Kilfitt, Astro, Accura).  
>
>As Peter Dechert keeps chanting, "BRING BACK VISO!"
>
>Marc
>
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>