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

[Lluis Ripoll]

Thanks for posting Bob, now we can see the “secret” techniques of our Dr. Ted!

Cheers
Lluis


El 27/04/2015, a les 18.12, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> va escriure:

> Ted used this on his crow friends at Yosemite!
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/LUG-L1005055.jpg.html
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Lluis Ripoll <
> lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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