PC lens w/visoflex

When you put a lens without a removeable head on a viso, the viso

effectively becomes a fancy extention tube that you can view

through. The good news is that the further a lens is away from the

film plane, the larger its image circle, so putting just about any

lens on a viso will work, and specifically the image circle on the PC

lens will be more than adequate to allow for complete adjustment.

The bad news however is that you will have a limited focus range, and

only be able to focus close-up with it.

Cheers,

Hello Jim,

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the shortest lens which enables you to focus on infinity with the

VISOFLEX is the 65 mm V-ELMAR. All other shorter lenses will only

give you a close up picture, as has been said. The M-mount which the

VISO has is so small in diameter, that I doubt you can find a PC lens

for it. I couldn´t think of one.

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Best wishes

You can get one of <a

href="http://www.cameraquest.com/adaptnew.htm">THESE</a> adapters,

and utilize available PC lenses from one of these systems on your

M/Viso combo.

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Cheers,

Jack those adaptors are the right thickness for using the PC lens

(such as the Nikkor) directly on an M (of course you'd have no way of

visually guaging the PC shift). Mount it on a VISO and you'd have a

PC Macro lens. Great for photographing one of those tiny replicas of

the Empire State Building you can buy at the airport, but little else.

I won't say I am an expert, but I don't think it can be done. Even if

it was possible to mount a w/a PC lens on the viso the width of the

adapter would mean, as Jay says, that they would be good only for

close ups and infinity focus would not be possible. There is no Leica

PC lens that can mount on any viso. One could mount a modern PC shift

(including the Leica ones) lens on an M directly however using the

Gandy adapters, but there is no way of previewing the effect, so it

seems pointless. Are there any MF to viso adapters? I somehow doubt

it. But even if there were (and they gave the right objective to film

plane distance) an MF PC lens would not be very wide on the 35mm

format and so of limited use for a 35mm camera. I think you can give

up on this one!

Jay and Robin: If you read my first response, you will see I already

covered this aspect of using the Viso in this situation, but I am

answering the gentleman's question. And hence, my second answer is

in response KG's post...

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So in summary, YES, it CAN be done, but the practicality of

application will be of limited value.

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:-),

Jim. If you want to use a PC lens properly, you will have to buy the

manufacturer's camera brand, although you do not have to buy an

expensive camera. for example, I have the Canon 24/3.5L Tilt-Shift

lens and a cheapo EOS body (any one will do, and the lens cannot

autocus anyway). I think it was Jay who pointed out that even if you

could adapt such a lens to a Visoflex, 65 mm is the longest focal

length that can will focus to infinity on a Visoflex. Also, I'm just

not sure you will get all of the movements built-into the lens, since

it was designed to work off-axis with the camera bodies made by the

manufacturers. Viso is a suitable way to go for macro and tele-

photography (and there are many very long Leitz Viso lenses that are

relatively cheap on the market). But it is not the way to go for PC

lens photography.

delayed answer, so maybe no one will read it. I have done it, with

tilt /shift as well, with an old Kopil bellows. But, for any sort of

non-macro work, I am limited to 100-135 lenses, especially enlarging

or large format lenses. Anyhting shorter, too macro, nad no 35 mm

lenses (any rand, the 65 mm film to flange distance, plus adapter

thickness, virtually rules it out. Should be able to use a medium

format, I haven't. Agreed, buy a Canon (or something).

Conversely, a LEica R makes a good visoflex replacement.