[LargeFormat] Oh My Goodness Part II

[Les Newcomer]

Where I grew up they did that in the nightclubs.  It was amazing how fast 
the brain corrected when lubricated with several ounces of alchohol.

Les
On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 12:48 PM, Karl Wolz wrote:

> I recall watching a movie wa-a-ay back in high school on the way that
> the brain processes image information.  I recall that a volunteer was
> fitted with special prismatic eyeglasses which turned everything upside
> down.  After a fairly short time (a week or two, as I recall) everything
> was turned right side up for him by his wonderful brain.  They then
> removed the glasses, and it took him several days to turn things back to
> the way that God intended.
>
> I've often wondered what would happen to the poor guy if the cycle were
> repeated many times - would he be able to tell "which end was up"?
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net] On
> Behalf Of rstein
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:55 AM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Oh My Goodness Part II
>
> Dear Friends,
>
>     It was with a small sense of shock that I realised that I have
> passed a
> milestone in my photography. Not as much shock as my friend Syd who
> passed a
> kidney stone, but still....
>
>     I was looking at the back of the Linhof the other Saturday as I
> lined
> up a number of WW1 renactors for regimental photos and I realised that
> the
> images were not upside down.
>
>     This was alarming - they had always been so in previous years -
> people
> who looked under the focussing cloth remarked upon it and I gave the
> conventional explanation with the little light ray diagram. Shaken, I
> borrowed a Mamiya C22 from my servant and looked down into the focussing
> screen.
>
>     Worse yet - the images were not reversed right to left.
>
>     I was just about to ring up to my local GP for a brain scan when I
> suddenly realised I had passed through the eye/brain barrier and had
> forgotten that what I see is optical shorthand for what really exists.
>
>      The same thing happened in dental school. We all had our new
> operative
> kits with the mirrors and the probes and for months we prodded and
> peered
> into phantom heads and nervous charity patients trying to coordinate our
> eyes and hands. And then one day the mirrors disappeared and we could do
> everything reversed as naturally as direct vision - switching
> imperceptibly
> from one view of the universe to the reverse without detecting any
> anomaly
> in our own minds. No-one taught us - it just happened.
>
>      I think the same has occurred with the ground glass screens. If I
> look
> carefully now I can see that the subjects are upside down in the Linhof
> but
> if I am just working instinctively, they are right side up. Now I am
> waiting
> for my eyes to complain about the general view because it doesn't have a
> K2
> filter over it.
>
>      Uncle Dick
>
>
>
>
>
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