Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guessing you'll be staying in one of the available "Tree Hugging Hippie" Treehouses during your 18 day stay in Oregon. From what I've read on blogs, most bring their own toilet paper as the foliage around the treehouses has been known to produce rather odd fungus around the buttocks area is used on a daily basis. Best camera to use? Easy. The 250 FF Reporter, you'll never had to reload and should be safe if thrown long distances by any of our early cousins though I'm not sure if this holds up against Of the lens of choice would be the Mountain Elmar which is suitable for the kind of conditions you will be living(or surviving)in for 18 days. Pack mules have carried this lens over 10,000ft heights for many decades with only 2 major fatalities, both coming from too eager Leicaphiles trying to unstrap the lens from a mule after spotting "Biggie" during a day trip in Washington state. It's rumored also "Biggie" takes kindly to the Mountain Elmar as the lens hood resembles and type of fungus occasionally devoured during the "Biggie" mating season which runs anywhere from November 3rd through November 12th(during Leap years this time is extended by 1/2 days). Perhaps this was why the "Mule Incident" took place as the eager Leicaphiles did not properly place the hood on the Mountain Elmar resulting both the deaths of the mules and the Leicaphiles from a fall of 8,500ft. Rumor is late at night on moonless nights on Mule Drop Trail, one can still here the sound of metal hitting the rocks as the hood fell to it's demise, landing just inches from the Elmar. Personally I don't believe a word of any of this, but I did see Bigfoot in the swamps south of New Orleans 3 yrs ago happily feasting along the bank on some poor Cajun trapper's boiled crawfish. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Cassidy" 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