Tom Stoncel
The Facts
Born into Communist Europe, escaped to Western Europe at age nineAt age ten got first job as a movie extraWent to Harvard, Princeton, MIT and CambridgeSaved a professor from death Climbed the highest mountain in BorneoDove to the bottom of the sea in a submarineSailed with dolphins, swam with turtlesCamped on an island infested with crocodiles and poisonous spidersWitnessed a meteor explosion six times brighter than the full moonScaled a construction cranePassed out from a lack of oxygen mid-flightAlmost suffocated sleeping in a car, from a lack of oxygen Chased by helicopter while driving down a runwayWorked with Sir Patrick StewartSurvived an earthquake
The Equipment
Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar T* f2 135mm, Makro-Planar T* f2 100mm and Distagon T* f2 25mm lenses. Sigma 35mm and 50mm f1.4 Art lenses. Rokinon 12mm Fisheye and 14mm lenses. Nikon AF Fisheye 10.5mm, 14-24mm, 16mm Fisheye, 17-35mm, 20mm f1.8, 24mm, PC-E 24mm, 24-70mm f2.8G, 24-70mm f2.8 S, 35-80mm, 50mm f1.4G, 70-200mm f2.8 VR, 70-200mm f2.8 VR II, 70-200mm f4, 80-200mm f2.8, 105mm f1.4, 105mm VR Mirco and 300mm PF lenses.
Gitzo tripods and Really Right Stuff ballheads.
B+W, Nikon, Breakthrough and Singh-Ray filters.