Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:38 AM 5/3/99 +0100, Doug McLernon wrote: >The BBC reported this morning that both of them had Kodak VP cameras with >them. The party is now looking for the cameras. > >Given the temperature (my opinion) it is perfectly possible that any film >found would produce an image. Well, Mallory had with him a Kodak VP camera lent him by Howard Somervell, his tent-mate; Somervell's nephew is the BBC producer who is along. This was the same camera Somervell had used to photograph Norton on 6 May 1924, the highest picture to be taken to that date. The other camera is more problematic: Noel Odell, the last man to see Mallory and Irvine, informed Tom Holzel a few years before he passed away (Odell, that is: I spoke with Tom on the phone yesterday, and he is very much alive!) that he had lent Irvine a camera but couldn't remember the type or make of the camera after 65 years. Kodak has offered to process any film found. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!