Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] my favorite in a while: guns, flying women, and the leica d200
From: kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Fri May 26 04:30:34 2006

took the leica d200 out on its first real test spin last night to photograph 
andrew and val. andrew's been a champion trap shooter since he was 10. i 
learned much about the difference between _skeet_ and _trap_. (trap has five 
different firing positions, skeet has eight, trap has one clay pigeon, skeet 
has two).
 
val was unable to keep her feet on the ground. this was the most fun i've 
had working on this series in a long time. the d200 performed marvelously. 
it has a great build quality (much like the expensive canons all my friends 
have) and a significantly quieter shutter. oh, and if you get it, get the 
vertical grip too, which is $170 extra. two batteries, and all the vertical 
goodness you'd expect from a pro grip (with the noteable exception of a 
freaking _tape recorder_ -- my leica d100 vertical grip has a tape recorder 
built into it so you can just speak your notes into the camera and they're 
tagged to the image so you can just take your photo, then press record and 
be like "gladys jones, 85, from macon georgia, says she'll vote for herbert 
hoover for the tenth time in a row in the presidential election of 2008". 
that's almost as useful as a gps.
 
ANYWAY, feel free to rip this to shreds with your harsh crits.
 
http://www.armedamerica.org/andrew-val/av2.jpg
 
keep crying, that battery's _dead_ dude,
 
kc
 

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