[Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:26 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

errrrr Kyle,   actually I think you and the other experts are  
actually looking for a hominid....


for a good yield and to get the most sensational results I'd  
recommend using a lens with the most artifacts...

a leica lens may not be ideal...


Steve



> 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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