Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!