Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:35 PM 11/23/97 +0500, Ian Stanley wrote: > I just finished watching a fascinating film called The Conquest of Everest >- The story of Edmund Hillary's conquest of Mount Everest. I still don't >understand why people climb mountains but there was some great footage of >Nepal in 1953. In a lot of ways the place hasn't really changed all that >much. There was quite a collection of cameras hanging around the necks of >the various individuals involved in climb. Marc can you help me out? Do >you know what cameras the team were using? Folks, I DIDN'T set this one up! See: Small, Marc James. "Zeiss on Everest". Zeiss Historica Journal 15:2 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 9 - 10. The expedition cameras were Contax II's and III's donated by Time/Life. Hillary had a Prewar Retina (with a Zeiss lens, a rarity!), a camera later stolen from him at an airport. Many of the later expeditions used Rollei 35's as summit cameras -- these, of course, had Zeiss optics. The early expeditions all had Zeiss or Zeiss-derived glass. Leica didn't get onto Everest, to my knowledge, until the '63 American trip, when Dyrenfurth had an LTM camera with him. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!