Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Marc, Many thanks for the information and I suppose I should really pick up a copy of your book the next time I go back to Canada. Even though the climbers were using 35mm cameras they still must have felt very heavy as they got higher on the mountain. I remember the strange looks I got lugging my 4x5 around at the base camp. BTW I just came down from the roof a little while ago after watching an incredible sunset on the Himal to the north of the Kathmandu Valley. I am lucky that I have a view like that without even leaving home!! What I really need though is a long telephoto. Ian Stanley, Kathmandu, Nepal At 01:15 AM 97-11-24 -0500, you wrote: >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! > > >