Visoflex III
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- Production era - 1961-1984
- Code names
- 16457 - Viso III housing (for bayonet only)
- 16498 - Viso III with OTXBO (shown ghosted, camera & lens not shown)
- Type - Reflex housing, similar in appearance to Visoflex II, but offering three possibilities of mirror operation set by three positions on the knob: yellow dot - fast mirror breakaway-and-return for rapid action; black dot - slow, gentle mirror rise and fall for long exposures; red dot - mirror lock-up out of light path for vibration-free close-ups and photomicrographs. . . A thumb-activated mounting lever enables the unit complete with OTXBO to be quickly mounted on Leica-M without having to remove the OTXBO first - Laney
- Optical depth - 40 mm
- Weight - 0.48 kg /1.06 lb
- Variants
- Finish - Black crackle (standard) and gray hammertone (military) versions
- Motor-M Coupled Viso - Invented by Camcraft's Norman Goldberg (1931-2006), upward movement of the arm caused Motor-M to advance the film - NY item, mid 60s, never cataloged - Laney
- Pellicle Viso - Norman Goldberg's modified Visoflex II /III (similar version by JPL, shown below from Westlicht 12 /292) with fixed half-silvered prism, eliminating mirror vibration and black-out - Laney
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- Included cable releases
- OZTOM 16491 - Double cable release (see FINOT OPKOM OZWTO OZWTO-M GIIFT)
- Available Viso III magnifiers
- Rapid focusing accessories for Viso II /III
- 14112 - 14113 - 14114, Focorapid - introduced 1962 w/ 3 distance pre-selection
- 14116 - Filter turret - introduced 1963 (front & back shown above)
- 14136, Televit - introduced 1966
- Other Visoflex Accessories
- Serial nos. - Viso II /III did not have serial numbers (surprise :-)
- Source
- Dennis Laney's Leica Accessory Guide (1st edition) page 51 courtesy of Mike Butkus
- Manuals & brochures
- Visoflex III Manual courtesy of Wilson Laidlaw
- Preseded by Visoflex II
Comment
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