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

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

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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