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Subject: [Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Oct 17 14:28:27 2006
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Not if it's a vegetarian.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:

> He will also know you are old enough to kill and eat without much  
> of a struggle
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> When in doubt bring a Rollei TLR. Even the beast will know you're  
>> a  professional and mean business.
>>
>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 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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>>
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Replies: Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot)
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