Good thing I don't put my trust into cartoons - well, except Rocky and Bullwinkle of course.
Rob On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
At 05:08 PM 9/25/2009, Robert Lilley wrote:When I was a kid I remember a comic in Mad Magazine paying homage to great exploits of explorers and... the photographers behind the scenes. There was a cartoon of Hillary victoriously atop Mount Everest and the photographer, blue due to lack of oxygen with chattering teeth taking the happy snap - and never getting credit for having done the same thing Hillary did.Except the photographers on Hillary's climb were only Hillary and Tenzing. Hillary took along his personal camera, a Prewar Retina with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar lens and the film was Kodachrome. The camera is now in a museum in New Zealand.Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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