>>3890828The Exa Ic is not a camera one uses because one is concerned about "focus," anon. It is a patrician camera that was somehow born in the depths of East Germany. It is for dethroned aristocrats who drink cologne that has been strained through a loaf of bread in order to take out the blinding toxins and who go home to a flat that has exposed wiring in the bathroom. But inside that Exa Ic is the soul of an Exakta, yearning to break free. It does not need "focus" for it has its own gravity around which light bends; it is a reverse heliotrope, sent from the aetheric realms, quashed momentarily, waiting for its moment to ascend once again to those lofty heights where only the valorous and pure can see the True God's light, stretching out past every miserable boundary, out past individuated broken consciousness, out past the stream across which Khidr triumphantly strode, through the veil, and back, recursively, into the heart of infinity, where everything can only be, in the end, perfectly clear, perfectly focused, beyond all clumsy contrivance...
