Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:10 PM 12/29/1999 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >True, and you could also choose to do all your photography on glass plates. >A Visolflex is an interesting artifact of the dawn of the reflex age - >whether or not they continued to be manufactured until relatively recently. Sorry, BD, but you missed my point. The original query was simply about the limits of the M system, and I simply pointed out that the M system can be expanded, rather dramatically, by the Visoflex. If I were shooting sports for a living, I might sink to an SLR but, otherwise, I'd avoid one like the plague. Hell, I own a nice Canon EOS 10s set with some gorgeous lenses -- but it is just a heavy, clunky camera compared to a Leica M, and its not been used in two or three years now. As to macro and micro work, it doesn't matter the platform to which my Micro-Summars and Luminars are attached: any camera is equally limited doing this sort of work. Understand me: the Visoflex allows the basic M to be expanded to include the full range of photography possible within the sharp confines of the 35mm format. The average photographer spends 90% of his or her time, I suspect, between 21mm and 135mm; to suggest that such a photographer invest in an M6 for most of their work and to then invest in, say, an R8 for the remaining 10% strikes me as economic lunacy, especially when a nice Viso III, the three basic Telyts, and a Bellows II for half the price, or less, of the price of an R8. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!