[rollei_list] Re: A TLR Rolleiflex in the Everest
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:58:17 -0300
Yes Marc, that is interesting info really, anyway my main point is
that now I have no doubt there was a Rolleiflex TLR camera and it was
used by the official photographer during the Everest 1953 expedition.-
Carlos
2009/10/26 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Thanks for the clarification Marc, anyway the RGS has the physical
> images, at least in part, and then you need to pay for higher
> resolutions, but if they no longer have copyrights, you could buy them
> and use them with no objections, it wouldn't be a bad idea if you have
> some specific purpose to use them.
>
> Carlos
>
>
> 2009/10/26 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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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