Re: [Rollei] Capa and Rollei: any references to books ?-new mail-

[Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza]

 I must add:
3)The lens is a Tessar
5)The 9th slide is Rolleiflex sure¡
I don't bother again today :-)
All the best
Carlos

- --- Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza  
escribió: > I researched something on 1953 Himalayan
expedition
> and I found these facts:
> 1) The expedition used principally Kodak Retina 35
> mm
> and Rolleiflex for still photography.-
> 2) The summit was reached on May 29 1953 by Edmund
> Hillary from New Zeeland and the sherpa Tenzing
> Norgay.-
> 3)Edmund Hillary took the photographs in the summit
> using his Kodak Retina 35mm lens Carl Zeiss Jena
> Nº1274240, 1:3.5/50mm, Compur shutter. This camera
> is
> into a Museum in NZ.-
> 4)There are no Sir Edmund Hillary's photographs in
> the
> summit.-
> 5)There are a slide show on 1953 Expedition at:
>
http://imagingeverest.rgs.org/Concepts/Virtual_Everest/-75.html
> You can see some Rolleiflex photographs in this
> oficial site of Royal Geographical Society.-
> Excuse me again, but if I have my HTML disabled I
> can't copy the URL active directly.-
> BTW, this little research isn't so easy.-
> All the best
> Carlos
> 
> 
> >  --- bigler  escribió: 
> .. Also since we are celebrating the 50-th
> > > anniversary of the 1-st
> > > ascent of a 8848m peak (now the official
> altitude
> > is
> > > 8850m), I'd of
> > > course appreciate references to books and
> > magazines
> > > featuring Rollei
> > > pictures of famous post(WWII himalayan
> > expeditions.
> > > 
> > > And since Carlos mentioned J.Y. Cousteau or his
> > > companions as Rollei
> > > TLR users, I should mention that there is a
> > > reference to the use of a
> > > Rollei TLR in post-WWII French Polar Expeditions
> > > organized by
> > > Paul-Emile Victor. One of the team members has
> > > apparently written a
> > > short technical notice on the use of a R-TLR in
> > > arctic conditions. I
> > > still have to put the hand on the exact
> reference,
> > > though.
> > > 


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