Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, As you and some of the crew are aware I started out as a young lad with my right eye the "weak eye" and it has never had anything done to it "operationally" just glasses for both eyes. The right eye in reality most of my life has some bit of vision, but really useless. Therefore my photo career has always been using the left eye with all kinds of cameras. 98% of my life LEICA'S" of all kinds. However what nobody picked-up, even all the eye doctors, until a couple of years ago and surprise, surprise? I've never had true 3 demential sight! :-) In other words "no depth perception" and everything through my perfect left eye I have pretty well always seen my photography images, whether looking through a view finder or not? I was seeing a "flat photo image!" Yep just like looking at a photograph! That lead to many compositions that occurred only because one eye was recording the image to the brain and triggered through the twitch ny times over my 65 year career about the world! "The Great Spirit" has been riding on my shoulder allowing me to see in a fashion others may not in the composition of subject matter? Once I learned of this I realized why when driving stock and sprint cars I would "Bumper bump" :-) the car in front of me because there was absolutely no true depth in my vision. When a situation of this nature occurred usually on a corner! And a wee bit of heavy duty discussion later? ;-) Occurred in "the Pit Area!" I always blamed the driver in front of me of "backing off going into the corner because he was a "chicken driver" and couldn't really rip through the corner and was backing off too quickly! :-) In reality it was me with no two perfect eyes creating the depth. I couldn't tell if he were 6 inches or 2 feet! In car racing? Yeah it was the pits? But then I always got away with blaming the driver in front. TODAY? I don't worry, nor think about any of this as I don't drive anymore. And unfortunately I shoot extremely few "happy Snaps" here in the elders retirement home I now live in. But now I carry a LEICA M8 around for "happy Snaps" of others living here in the "PALACE!" :-) So there you go crew something a little different in the great world of photojournalism photography! CHEERS. Dr. Ted Grant O.C. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: September-07-17 1:18 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Pho Great, Sonny! That's encouraging. I wouldn't mind having to wear glasses just for the computer. Before surgery on my left eye, I had to wear glasses to see, drive and focus my camera but I took them off to read, eat, and use the computer. I have glasses all over the house! Right now I'm only wearing sunglasses when I go outside. It's great and freeing! I will have to buy some non-prescription sunglasses. I'm still wearing the big plastic ones from the hospital! Tina On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > I had that done. It's great. The only thing is that I ended up getting > glasses made for computer work that made both eyes focus at about 2 feet > because I was straining using primarily one eye when editing. On the other > hand, I don't normally need reading glasses, and it is very freeing, to not > NEED glasses, especially for my photography. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sonny Carter > http://www.SonC.com/look > > > > On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > PESO: > > > > I took my M246 to my ophthalmologist appointment this morning. I chose > to > > have my left eye lens implant focused for distance and I can focus the > > camera with it again! Now I'm considering whether to have the right eye > > implant focused for reading. That is essentially what I have right now > > because I can see distance with my left eye and read with my right eye. > > That way I could use the camera - focusing and setting it - without > > glasses. Opinions?? > > > > Here is Tom eating Pho: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/image/166156078 > > > > I focused on his glasses. > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > Tina Manley > > www.tinamanley.com > > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0- > 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/ Tina+Manley.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. 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