[Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot

[buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)]

Point of fact, it doesn't really matter.  A thin layer...a VERY thin 
layer...of Sharpo spread on the front element of any Leica lens will extend 
your depth of field by about 67% and eliminate the need for anything but the 
grossest of zone focus.  After eighteen days in the woods, your smell and 
the odor of the Sasquatch should be just aboiut the same.

Buzz Hausner


>From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
>Date: 2006/10/17 Tue AM 10:26:45 CDT
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot

>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