Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/01

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Subject: [Leica] CJ6 NAN CHANG PLANE... leica M7 & LEICANON in one breath?
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Tue Mar 1 01:52:21 2005
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20050228105302.02f5b0d0@imap.duke.edu> <001901c51dce$915d3380$adba4154@desktop> <001d01c51e2e$47ccf330$833b6d18@ted>

Ted Grant wrote:

> Hi Crew,
> 
> "So what kind of a day did you have Mr. Grant?"
> 
> Well I flew a CJ6 NAN CHANG plane for the first time. :-).. Do we have 
> any NAN CHANG  flyers out there in Leica LUG land?
> 
> "So how come you have two kinds of cameras with you today ? I see one is 
> film, the other digital?"  A confession! A weird sense of deja vue came 
> over me.... "this is not the time for a screw-up!" Besides the digi has 
> been so incredible that if one were meant to get your ass kicked it was 
> going to be on this kind of a shoot !
> 
> It's like this... first of all it was going to be a ride in a neat 
> little 2 seater plane, the Nan Chang referred to as a "War Bird " as I 
> was told, shoot some pictures and just have a jolly good day all round. 
> :-) But a sense of "camera foreboding" came over me last evening , so a 
> trusty Leica went along for insurance.
> 
so....any chance of seeing any of the shots???? Guess not, just asking. 
We're 
all agog!!

Peter


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