Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I remember the same experience, back when I was in college. Each new prescription amazed me--I'd never noticed the details disappearing! Now if they could only make APO eyeglasses! (I do notice that I focus blue light poorly). Someone write a memo to Leica! Chris Hoover cdhoover@pacbell.net Ben Holmes wrote: > > I've done it. I've joined the duffers club. I am old. > > Yesterday a man with a diploma told me I needed eyeglasses. I swallowed hard > and agreed. Today I picked up a new pair which were ground to my needs, and > I must say I am amazed! > > There are things in my yard that I have never seen before. Leaves on trees, > blades of grass, the flowers on my prized lavendula angustifolia - they all > jump out in a way that I can truly say I have never seen before. I am > visually born again. Hell, even television looks better. > > I took my wife on a drive through the farms that I have photographed for the > last three years. Actually, she took me, as she did the driving. I noticed > things that I had passed over dozens of times before because they had seemed > dull and not very interesting. Today they were sharp and saturated. The > textures were stunning. All new. snip > > Ben W. Holmes > Boulder, CO > > visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/ > Leica serial numbers and Leica classifieds at > http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/photodat.htm