Leica LTM Mt Everest Leica first?

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
This is the actual camera that Hillary used. It's in a museum and is unlikely to appear on ebay.
 

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I've got the more common version with the Xenar lens- no slouch.

I've got the Tessar of that period on a Certo Dollina.
 
Here is an article about Alfred Gregory the official photographer of the 1953 expedition.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23058484-28737,00.html

The photos have now been published in a collection of his works. "Alfred GREGORY Photographs from Everest to Africa"

http://labx.com.au/AlfredGregory.htm

And here is what one reviewer sasy about his work.

In 1953 Alfred Gregory was chief photographer for the triumphant British team that took Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit of Everest. There he took spectacular photographs that record not only the human struggle to conquer the Himalaya but also the once-pristine beauty of the world's highest mountain. In the years that followed, Alfred Gregory travelled the world, leading mountaineering expeditions and recording cultures and landscapes that were then largely unknown to Westerners, He also captured the character, excitement and fading innocence of his hometown, Blackpool. His keen eye and sharp intelligence created pictures that portray all the majesty of the world's greatest wildernesses and that preserve those fleeting moments when ordinary people, objects and places become extraordinary. In this stunning book, more than one hundred remarkable images from Alfred Gregory's lifetime of photography are brought together for the first time.


Anyone have any technical info on the cameras he used?
 
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Steamer. Cool thanks I did not realise that he used the Retina as well as Hillary. All of which reminds me that I have one also. (Except that actually its the 11a with lever wind.) It was given to me a few years back by someone who had inhereted it and did nto want it and from all apperances looks like a nicely made and quite handsome little camera.
 
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Shocking indeed, but I believe the Kodak Retinas were made in Germany.
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I've got one in pristine condition, with three Schneider lenses, that I have yet to play with yet. :bang:

Russ
 
Not exactly related to the topic, but still has a rangefinder angle: One of the members first Philippine team, Dom Goduco, to the Everest last year had a digital Leica M8 with him. He posted some photos taken with it through a 24mm elmarit at photos:http:// web.mac.com/domgoduco. But I think this link isn't working anymore.
 
I read somewhere that the acrtual Retina ued by sir Ed on Everest was later stolen. There is a camera , decribed as being the one he used on Everest, in a museum in New Zealand; so did he get it back?
 
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