[Leica] my favorite in a while: guns, flying women, and the leica d200

[wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith)]

That's one hell of a semi-auto too. What's the caliber--15mm? Shoots a 500 
gr. slug?

"Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote:  Flying women, trained 
cats, ...amazing! You don't happen to have an 
after picture showing the poor squashed kitty do you? :-) ...and 
what is that guy wearing?

Dick


>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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