Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you're right Jim, IIRR the P-39 was the single engined Bell Airacobra. Lovely sharp detail shots, all of them. BTW Thornton-packard built a camera for air gunnery training which was almost identical to the Lewis gun shown in the picture. Douglas PS this is a very interesting site : http://home.att.net/~C.C.Jordan/P-38MTO.html JAMES NICHOLS schrieb: >Chandos, > >Beautiful shots, especially given the lighting situation. I believe your >"P-39" is actually a P-38 Lockheed Lightning, which had the center pod for >pilot and weaponry, and engines mounted in outboard pods which also >supported the tail. > >Jim Nichols > > >>[Original Message] >>From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> >>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Date: 9/12/2004 8:48:04 AM >>Subject: [Leica] More from the Udvar-Hazy Center >> >> >> >> >>Here're a few more from the Udvar-Hazy collection of the National Air >>and Space Museum, near Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. >> >>I went out on a drizzly Sunday morning at opening time; there was >>already a short line to enter. Lighting is comprised of a lovely, >>diffused skylight glow and arc lights that fry your retinas, with >>various high-intensity spots more or less randomly distributed. I found >>it a challenge to get *any* decent images, and stuck with the medium >>telephoto throughout; most of these are exposed at ISO 800 and wide open >>on the Olympus 50/2. >> >>I confess that I found this sort of 'documentary' work utterly relaxing, >>as opposed to confronting disaffected subjects in the Green Leafe, for >>instance. >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687492&size=lg >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687503&size=lg >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687485&size=lg >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687499&size=lg >> >> >>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687505&size=lg >> >> >>The titling's a little shaky. I can't seem to put my hands on the small >>notebook in which I jotted down technical info about the aircraft, and >>the NASM website's not much help. >> >>Comments, derision, etc. invited, as ever. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/