dee
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As some of you are aware I have dee's orientating Autistic '' lostness '' which makes everything out of phase , dreamstate - and kinda unknown , scary , all the time , without respite OOPS !!!
About a year ago , enter Leica II , then IIIc / IIIf - which literally uniquely , seemed more real / tangible to BOTH hands and eyes [ which so seldom work as one ! ] than any toy / companion [ ? ] , which led to a spate of Leica copies which surround and ground '' me '' in chaos .
This , when I had been '' making magic slide shows '' from my 1st real camera in 1965 .
But I do not seem to really grasp the abstract link between aperture / shutter speeds / depth of field etc - By the time the pics were developed , I had lost whwt I did to create them ... just as the abstract concepts of '' family '' money '' and much else are just words told to me .
A Canon G2 digital camera did nothing to help.
But a few days / dazed with the M 8 - and I can literally ,see the effect immediately
It's like all that was fuzzy has come into focus - it's a dream , just to set an aperture and simply shift the shutter dial 1/2 stop at a time , to see the effect of camera shake at short speeds , or to alter the ASA rating to see the benign effects of grain , which I loved on old Orwo monochrome slide film . Not to mention playing with the colour / contrast settings etc in camera and on the mac .
Iphoto only and jpeg at the moment , it's only beeen a few days !
My Asd is like being a child mind [ with added experience , but limited comprehension ] frozen before about 1960 - I can't delete old files and add new , so the new stuff is less real than the old ...
The M8 seems to gift me with the convenience of digital imaging , in a fifties familiar framework , which , is priceless to me - sort of lost in spaced !!!
It seems to have surpassed and quietened the craving for more Leica-likes to ground me - I know what I write must sound crazzee , but Asdee is crazzeee and bewildering and ... impossible.
I don''t know if this should be off topic - maybe it's not about serious photography - more a comfort in my lostness - you see that oh so clear window which my M8 proffers enables me to create my own curtailed world in confusion , to focus through the mind astigmatism .
camera without that shutter dail / aperture ring interface just does not cut through the mind blindness - creating more diffusion in trying to make it work .
The image look is that of the 50s from my Elmar / Summitar and controversially a handfull of Russian clones - I 10 clip lenses , I 26 , I 61l/d / J8 , and the 66mm focal length takes me back to a 58mm f 1.4 Rokkor from 1962 , which had a similar quality .
Maybe the M 8 is wasted on old glass , maybe it's definitive abilities will never be dee's covered , but all i can say is that it's been just amazing for me .
dee
About a year ago , enter Leica II , then IIIc / IIIf - which literally uniquely , seemed more real / tangible to BOTH hands and eyes [ which so seldom work as one ! ] than any toy / companion [ ? ] , which led to a spate of Leica copies which surround and ground '' me '' in chaos .
This , when I had been '' making magic slide shows '' from my 1st real camera in 1965 .
But I do not seem to really grasp the abstract link between aperture / shutter speeds / depth of field etc - By the time the pics were developed , I had lost whwt I did to create them ... just as the abstract concepts of '' family '' money '' and much else are just words told to me .
A Canon G2 digital camera did nothing to help.
But a few days / dazed with the M 8 - and I can literally ,see the effect immediately
It's like all that was fuzzy has come into focus - it's a dream , just to set an aperture and simply shift the shutter dial 1/2 stop at a time , to see the effect of camera shake at short speeds , or to alter the ASA rating to see the benign effects of grain , which I loved on old Orwo monochrome slide film . Not to mention playing with the colour / contrast settings etc in camera and on the mac .
Iphoto only and jpeg at the moment , it's only beeen a few days !
My Asd is like being a child mind [ with added experience , but limited comprehension ] frozen before about 1960 - I can't delete old files and add new , so the new stuff is less real than the old ...
The M8 seems to gift me with the convenience of digital imaging , in a fifties familiar framework , which , is priceless to me - sort of lost in spaced !!!
It seems to have surpassed and quietened the craving for more Leica-likes to ground me - I know what I write must sound crazzee , but Asdee is crazzeee and bewildering and ... impossible.
I don''t know if this should be off topic - maybe it's not about serious photography - more a comfort in my lostness - you see that oh so clear window which my M8 proffers enables me to create my own curtailed world in confusion , to focus through the mind astigmatism .
camera without that shutter dail / aperture ring interface just does not cut through the mind blindness - creating more diffusion in trying to make it work .
The image look is that of the 50s from my Elmar / Summitar and controversially a handfull of Russian clones - I 10 clip lenses , I 26 , I 61l/d / J8 , and the 66mm focal length takes me back to a 58mm f 1.4 Rokkor from 1962 , which had a similar quality .
Maybe the M 8 is wasted on old glass , maybe it's definitive abilities will never be dee's covered , but all i can say is that it's been just amazing for me .
dee
M. Valdemar
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Good luck, chief.