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Subject: [Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue Oct 17 19:49:16 2006
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One can only hope. Though I have to admit, I'm seeing a lot more  
Rolleis in the hands of the 20's something crowd.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:

> What you should really hope for????An art  lover??
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>> information
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