[Leica] THE SAGA of the 15MM----18MM lens! YOU WONT BELIEVE IT! :-(

[Lluis Ripoll]

Hi Ted,

I still remember when you was in Barcelona, you have photographed a dog putting your camera on the floor with your 15mm!

Cheers
Lluis


El 25/04/2015, a les 2.34, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> va escriure:

> Hi Crew,
> There I was one day several years ago feeling just wonderful acquiring this
> most incredible SUPER-WIDE 15MM Lens. Just tickled pink every time I shot
> with it on my M cameras, film early days. Now M8 these past few years.
> 
> Always feeling like "JOE COOL the SHOOTER" each time I used it and looked at
> the incredible captured W/A images.  "REALLY?" :-(
> 
> Yes there was a view finder to attach in the hot shoe to give you a bit of
> an idea how wide the image might/would be. Well I put one of those thumb
> winder things into the hot shoe mount on the M8. So I put the view thingee
> in my bag. NEVER USED IT! Why? Well it was always a pain in the butt finding
> it in the bag or photo-vest pocket. Not to mention trying to remove the
> thumb thingee.
> 
> Besides why use one on a digital camera when you "CLICK" and there's the
> image to check how it looks? Image looks "cool?" Carry on or whatever? THEN
> I WENT TO JOSEMITE NAT. PARK. USA ????? READY?????????? :-)
> 
> NO I DIDN'T LOSE IT. READY???????????? My dear friend Bob Adler enlightened
> me one day "even though it's a 15mm WA lens rightly so. In reality on an M8
> it's only an 18MM LENS!!!!!!!!!!"
> 
> My eyes watered,;-)  I felt like I was having trouble breathing! ;-) After
> all these years on the M8 I've lost hundreds, nay thousands of millimetres
> of view! HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLEY BE????????? Devastated, I blurted out
> "EXPLAIN HOW THAT CAN BE?" Beginning to feel weak in the knees after all
> these years I have been robbed of image size! ;-) 
> 
> In a lightening flash Bob responded! 
> 
> "It only has an "18mm sensor in the M8 camera!" I felt robbed and cheated
> both at the same time. ;-)
> 
> I gripped myself firmly, held the M8 close to my heart fearful I may throw
> it away, as one might do with a cheating lover! ;-) I took several deep
> breaths quickly realizing how to correct this devastating cheating camera
> "SENSOR!"  
> 
> Dang, sometimes I amaze myself how quickly I find the answer to what
> appeared a kind of theft from my photographs! The correction to the
> devastating moment that a friend so callously enlightened me, so
> un-expectantly! Bob? Yer bad!! ;-) ;-) ;-)  BUT YER STILL ONE OF THE BEST
> BUDDIES A GUY CAN HAVE! :-) 
> 
> "15mm WIDE ANGLE CORRECTON METHOD!" 
> To full 15mm lens capabilities???????  READY? OK so it's my method of
> keeping it KISS and free? :-)  Take one or two steps back! Look through
> camera view finder, center the image, it looks cool and wide angle?  CLICK!!
> Another winner! ?? Well? So ok maybe? However, always keep it KISS ! 
> 
> But in all honesty it did throw me off after the many years I've been using
> this lens after I sold my LEICA 21mm wide angle lens. Aaahhhhhhh digital
> stuff! :-) I'll never understand all this! :-) Besides who cares as long as
> you capture that what excites you and keeps paying clients HAPPY! :-) 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)  
> 
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