[Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Kyle--

I'd suggest the MP since you may be far from sources of batteries.

I'd choose the 21mm Elmarit for my single lens. The Musk Ape is  
notoriously slow afoot and short of wind, so any sightings can be  
followed by a short chase to get within close photo range. Also, if  
the ape should turn on you, the 21 offers a generous field of  
coverage to allow you to get maximum evidence when up close.

Good hunting, mon ami.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies


On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>   I'm going to be spending 18 days in the woods in Oregon as part  
> of the PNWMAP (Pacific Northwest Musk Ape Project) documenting the  
> homonid known technically referred to by scientist as  
> Gigantanthropus but alternatively by lay-people as "Sasquach",  
> "Skunk Ape", "Musk Ape" and, of course, Bigfoot.  In meetings with  
> the Bigfoot Field Research Deployment team, one of the things we  
> discussed is that most images of this shy and smelly creature are  
> not very sharp. It's for this reason that I've procured a grant for  
> purchasing a Leica camera and a lens. I want to use a single lens  
> to avoid the horror of being in the process of changing lenses when  
> a Yeti emerges from a bedding path in the undergrowth and stalks  
> with his loping determined stride across the narrow path in front  
> of me to vanish rapidly again in the dense foilage. With just one  
> lens, I can always be at the ready to capture the photographic  
> evidence which will advance our studies and knowledge of this noble  
> beast.
>
>   My question is, givin the moist enviornment that Woods Devil  
> likes to live in, what Leica camera will be the most robust in  
> those circumstances and what lens will be the sharpest and most  
> useful overall? -- taking into consideration that the Yowie may  
> come, screaming and bellowing, into my field of view from a great  
> distance or may even charge me, suddenly, in close quarters if he  
> is enraged by the smell of my after shave. I want to be prepared  
> for everything. Generally a herbavore, Old Yellow-Top is thought to  
> be an opportunistic carnovoire, so the camera must also be able to  
> withstand a possible, though extremely unlikely attack by one of  
> Americas last giant apes.
>
>   Thanks for your time and expertise. Also, if anyone has  
> photographs they've taken or reports of sightings, I'd love to hear  
> them.
>
>   Kyle Cassidy
>   PNWMAP, Photographic Field Research Team Coordinator
>
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