I know/knew an oldster, now deceased, who carried one of those to the top of Mt. St. Elias here in Alaska, on the first ascent with the Harvard mountaineering club in 1958. His pictures and especially his 16mm movies of the trip are stunning classics and his best work. I'm not sure where his 30,000ft of movie film is stored these days. The resolution those cameras produce in skilled hands is incredible. He had graduated to Nikons by the time he went on the first US ascent of Everest in '63 as the team glaciologist.
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