Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., A friend and former UPI photographer..Michael Pugh in Atlanta, has on his wall an Olympus 50mm lens... The lens was "toasted" during a shuttle launch. The lens was mounted on a remote camera and somehow the LOX when vented hit the lens...don't remember the full story, but the camera and lens were etched BER (beyond economical repair) by the gasses. The other UPI photogs got the lens mounted on a placque with a metal plate ect and gave it to him as a momento. He has it on the wall of his home office. B. D. Colen wrote >back in the early 70s, UPI went to Olympus....but the damn things >just wouldn't hold up to the daily grind and crunch, Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto new book at http://www.volmania.com