Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Apologies for getting the lens wrong. With the motor drive and lens the thing must have weighed 3 pounds or more, yes? So if it fell 25,000 feet it would have put a considerable hole in the ground.... Or probably came in at an angle like a heron descending to nab a surface feeding rainbow, so it would have left more like a looonggg gash. Light-tight? That's just insane. The whole idea makes a trip a Germany worthwhile, merely to lay eyes on the thing. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: > Vince Passaro wrote: > > >Steve I just read somewhere today -- on Wikipedia perhaps -- that there > >resides in the Leica Museum in Solms a Leicaflex SL and (I think) 35mm > >Elmarit that fell 25,000 feet out of a Phantom Jet -- 25000 feet! Like > FOUR > >MILES -- and was deemed repairable by the Leica technicians. I do hope > this > >is true, and that someday I will see it. > > SL2 MOT with motor drive, 35mm Summicron-R (first version). Not sure about > the elevation, or whether the desert where the camera landed (Mojave > Desert) > was repairable. Camera was still light-tight. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >