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Subject: [Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Oct 17 17:25:24 2006
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What you should really hope for????An art  lover??

Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> Not if it's a vegetarian.
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> Slobodan Dimitrov
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> On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:
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>> He will also know you are old enough to kill and eat without much  of 
>> a struggle
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>> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
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>>> When in doubt bring a Rollei TLR. Even the beast will know you're  
>>> a  professional and mean business.
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>>> Slobodan Dimitrov
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>>> On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>   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.
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>>>>   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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