[Leica] best leica lens for photographing bigfoot

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

When in doubt bring a Rollei TLR. Even the beast will know you're a  
professional and mean business.

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>   I'm going to be spending 18 days in the woods in Oregon as part  
> of the PNWMAP (Pacific Northwest Musk Ape Project) documenting the  
> homonid known technically referred to by scientist as  
> Gigantanthropus but alternatively by lay-people as "Sasquach",  
> "Skunk Ape", "Musk Ape" and, of course, Bigfoot.  In meetings with  
> the Bigfoot Field Research Deployment team, one of the things we  
> discussed is that most images of this shy and smelly creature are  
> not very sharp. It's for this reason that I've procured a grant for  
> purchasing a Leica camera and a lens. I want to use a single lens  
> to avoid the horror of being in the process of changing lenses when  
> a Yeti emerges from a bedding path in the undergrowth and stalks  
> with his loping determined stride across the narrow path in front  
> of me to vanish rapidly again in the dense foilage. With just one  
> lens, I can always be at the ready to capture the photographic  
> evidence which will advance our studies and knowledge of this noble  
> beast.
>
>   My question is, givin the moist enviornment that Woods Devil  
> likes to live in, what Leica camera will be the most robust in  
> those circumstances and what lens will be the sharpest and most  
> useful overall? -- taking into consideration that the Yowie may  
> come, screaming and bellowing, into my field of view from a great  
> distance or may even charge me, suddenly, in close quarters if he  
> is enraged by the smell of my after shave. I want to be prepared  
> for everything. Generally a herbavore, Old Yellow-Top is thought to  
> be an opportunistic carnovoire, so the camera must also be able to  
> withstand a possible, though extremely unlikely attack by one of  
> Americas last giant apes.
>
>   Thanks for your time and expertise. Also, if anyone has  
> photographs they've taken or reports of sightings, I'd love to hear  
> them.
>
>   Kyle Cassidy
>   PNWMAP, Photographic Field Research Team Coordinator
>
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