Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [IDCC] Kon Tiki Cameras
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:03:43 -0500

At 06:52 PM 2/14/2001 -0700, Mike Stoesz wrote:
>Dr. Mulloy BTW used a Retina, probably a I, Ia, II, IIa or similar of
>that vintage.  I will check on that some more.

Interesting!  The Retina surfaces again!  A Prewar Stuttgart Type 114 with
a Zeiss Jena Tessar was the camera carried high by Sir Edmund Hillary in
'53 when he summitted Everest.  This is the camera which took the
magnificent picture of Tenzing at the top of the world -- a Zeiss lens, a
Retina camera, and Kodachrome 25.

Marc

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