Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, when I went in for a check-up, the Optician in the Doctor's Office put a blank lens in my glasses on the side of my surgery for me. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your good wishes! > > I'm doing fine today, the pupil is back to normal. I'm just getting used > to the new me, and resting up. There will be some creative joggling of > current glasses with right-hand lenses removed until things stabilize and I > get new ones. Ted, absolutely right, I'm already seeing better than I have > in years, and the "new" lens transmits significantly brighter colors than > the old one did. > > Geoff, you were on the right track, but the flare control with my > anime-sized pupil was unworthy of a Noctilux. As Erwin Puts would say, > "wide > open, the lens exhibited excessive veiling glare which obscured fine > detail. > This improved makedly upon stopping down." It took until about noon today > to get completely back to normal size. For a while, I saw rings around > light > sources, which I correctly guessed was light getting around the edges of my > new lens because the pupil was so big. "Yup," said my surgeon when he > called > to check on me. That disappeared as the pupil contracted. > > Sonny, you were quite right, I was watching TV yesterday afternoon with > wraparound sunglasses as my ND filters. > > Jim and Tina, The "X" over the target eye was amusing, but a very > reassuring mistake-preventer. Steve: "Prefrontal lo-WHAT-omy? I'm just > here for a cataract, and keep those little men in white coats > awayyyyyy...." > :-) > > Nathan: Maybe too much information. :-) > > Richard: G1 with articulating screen, so I could see myself with the camera > pointed at me. > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA