{"id":25698,"date":"2023-04-20T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=25698"},"modified":"2023-04-17T23:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:33:33","slug":"sky-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sky-high\/","title":{"rendered":"sky high"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Six Glaciers in Alberta behind Lake Louise. Taken about two decades ago with a Leica M4<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the early days of minicam photography, mountain scenery was thought to be popular with travellers. Companies like Leitz made special lenses to use in the mountains with their cameras.<\/p>\n

The lens designs put lighter weight over aperture (usually a smaller maximum aperture \u00a0as mountains had an abundance of light). Focal lengths were likely medium telephoto.<\/p>\n

Slower and shorter focal length lenses were already available and relatively light. For example, the 5cm Elmar (joined a few years later (1935) by the 3.5cm Elmar and 2.8cm Hektor).<\/p>\n

A typical special design for travellers was the 105mm f\/6.3 ‘Mountain Elmar’. \u00a0While not especially successful when first offered (only about 4,000 ever made – 1932 to 1937), it is now desirable to collectors.<\/p>\n

In the haze of the above photograph is Abbott pass<\/a> – location of the first recorded fatality from mountain climbing in Canada. On the climb down, my daughter and I dropped in at the nearby Tea House<\/a> for refreshments.<\/p>\n

I took the photo \u00a0twenty years ago probably with a Canadian designed and manufactured 35mm Summicron lens. I used ASA 800 Kodak negative colour film.<\/p>\n

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