[rollei_list] Re: A TLR Rolleiflex in the Everest
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:02:31 -0400
At 01:51 PM 10/26/2009, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>This is an image downloaded from the Royal Geographical Society images
>site where you can see on the photograph bottom edge to the right a
>half body of the Gregory's Rolleiflex in the Everest. The original is
>a very low resolution image -about 28kb- that the RGS allows to
>download, higher resolutions are available for sale; I marked the
>camera with a red arrow, it's necessary to click on the image to see a
>very bad bigger image but good enough to identify the Rolleiflex:
Well, no. The images are owned by the Himalaya
Committee, formerly the Mount Everest Committee,
a joint effort of the Royal Geographic Society
(thank Younghusband for that involvement) and the
Alpine Club (through the efforts of Captain
Noell). But the Alpine Club is not set up to
distribute the photographs, so the RGS has done
so for the photographic records of every
sanctioned British climb on Everest since the
original Howard-Bury recon in 1921. But the
proceeds are divided between the RGS and the
Alpine Club. Both are a bunch of mercenary
bastards. The RGS will even object to the
reproduction of pictures no longer covered by copyright.
Just a teensie bit of trivia.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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