dee said:
Simple musing - my Leica / Leica copies and kievs seem to provide a more direct window / connection onto my Autism deefused / deestorted world ... and I wondered why ?
It,s because the window is constant . It does not become blurred with focus , or change with different lenses - I have yet to buy a 35mm , but will simply allow for more around the picture ... and no zooms with their even worse '' changeability '' , which , for me = confusion and anxiety .
In a way , I prefer the separate '' magic '' split image rangefinder or the Leica II or my Fed Ig ''Leicas '' , just because one window is always uncluttered .
O.K. , ASD is wierd in that i don't resolve stuff properly , but I wonder if this simplicity and constancy is the general appeal of the rangefinder ?
dee
Although you have phrased it very modestly, it seems to me that you have neatly encapsulated that quality so elusive that Leica had to make it into a branding trademark: "my point of view".
There is a lot of wisdom about the specificity of the rangefinder view on this site, for which I feel immensely grateful. The centrality of the VF is what finally pushed me to go way overbudget and sell my Bessa R3A for a Zeiss Ikon.
I would be interested to hear--and especially see--you develop more the connection between ASD and a particular way of seeing/photography. A very long time ago I knew a professional photographer who shot a series on children with ASD, but he was always very frustrated by not being able to experience it himself.
But this inability--if you will permit me to philosophize--turns out to be something that we humans all share in common with each other, isn't it? We can never be sure if we have had the same experience as other people? In fact, we can never be sure what our experience exactly was, until we go through a process of reduction, exclusion, and refinement after the fact. The experience itself is always multiple and partially beyond ordered knowing.
Reading about ASD, its principal features are a series of unconventional boundaries between senses and types of behaviour. In this context, the split between RF and VF that many people (including myself sometimes) might find annoying could be something that just "makes sense".
As the world and our experience gets more and more ordered and structured by binary code, we are probably going to need more and more reminders of what
experience is in the first place.
I just bought as a second body on ebay a camera that forces me to use separate VF and RF. But maybe it is going to be a lot more than a cheap second body to protect my investment in a Zeiss Ikon. Come to think of it, when I've used separate RF/VFs in the past, I've often gained something from it unexpectedly. The assurance of focus in that RF patch can be quite a lure(English)/leurre(French). Thanks for reminding me of this.
Jon
