Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:53 PM 1/9/97 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >If you climb to the top of Everest, you take an M Leica. You don't take a Contax G. The possible first ascent of Everest would have been documented by the Zeiss lens on the camera taken along by Mallory and Irvine, a Kodak VP. And the historical first ascent was documented by the Zeiss lens taken on the camera carried by Sir Edmund Hillary, a Prewar Retina. Both lenses were, of course, Tessars. In all fairness, if I were climbing Everest today (and this is NOT bloody likely, I hasten to add!) I'd schlepp either a Rollei TLR or a Leica M6 along. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!