Re: [Leica] TTL and Visoflex?

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

Why discuss it off-list ?
Compared with threads like Starbucks, Socialism,
Communism etc etc etc, quite frankly seeing actual
Leica related posting is a breath of fresh air.

- --- Gary Elshaw <godard@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was just wondering about people's experiences
> using the different TTL
> models and their Visoflexes.  Maybe this would be
> better off-list, for some
> reason, some people think the Viso is a dirty word
> and has very little to do
> with contemporary Leica use. Has anyone had any
> aggravations, major
> problems, weird inconsistencies or the like? Do you
> have a preferred
> Visoflex in the II or III? How does the 0.85 TTL
> rate? Anyone out there
> trying to use a Viso with a CL? Anyone trying to do
> macro work with the ASPH
> lenses?
> 
> Half the reason I ask is that although the evolution
> of the Viso has
> stopped, the M just keeps on evolving, but we're
> still managing to use the
> Viso, which I think is pretty cool.
> 
> Sometimes I think we need a Viso list, I might take
> a trip over to Topica
> and see what it takes if there is enough interest. I
> imagine any level of
> interest would mean a low traffic flow anyway :-)
> 
> All the best,
> Gary
> 
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> There are, of course, those who would argue that
> it's unhealthy to read a
> children's author past the age of, say, 24. Big
> people are supposed to
> reserve their enthusiasm for real estate, business
> plans and zero-sum games
> played by linguistically-impoverished men with hairy
> knuckles. This, in my
> view, is real nonsense. A world in which it's uncool
> for grownups to care
> passionately about books -- children's books, any
> books -- would be
> infinitely scarier than a world with telepathic
> avocados or real estate
> agents from outer space.
> 
> ---Paul LaFarge on children's author Daniel
> Pinkwater
> 
> OO  
> [_]<| 
>  /|\
> Gary Elshaw 
> Film and Media Studies Tutor
> Victoria University
> New Zealand
> http://elshaw.tripod.com/
>
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