Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/30

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Subject: Re: Seeing everything new
From: ted grant <75501.3002@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 01 Jul 97 00:34:25 EDT

Donal Philby wrote:

<<But being left eyed is really a irritation, especially without a
motordrive on a M camera.>>>>>

Hi Donal,

tell me about it! :) Seeing I've been a one eyed photographer for my career,
left eye, it really is a pain when using the M6, as you can't advance and still
keep the camera to your eye, as the right eyed folks.

If Leica would only come up with a motor winder for the M camera that was as
silent as the shutter, I'd have motors on them as I do with the R's.

However there are advantages to being one eyed! :)  What you see doesn't change
when you put the image on film. In other words a photographer with two good eyes
sees in 3d, whereas the one eyed shooter sees as the camera in the one plain.
I've been told on more than one occaision by different people that my affliction
has been an asset in how I see and shoot my pictures. 

Although I have on occaision wished I had perfect eyesight, my handicap is
actually a blessing in disguise. :)

ted
Victoria, Canada
http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant