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Subject: [Leica] my favorite in a while: guns, flying women, and the leica d200
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri May 26 05:38:03 2006
References: <20060526122336.72854.qmail@web32812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Very nice shot, Kyle
Looks like a kilt to me, with a leather Sporran too,
and is that a Walther or an M9 Beretta automatic on the blue box?
IIRR, the rock-pop singer Suzi Qautro was a  very good shot at CPs
Douglas

Bill Smith wrote:

>That's one hell of a semi-auto too. What's the caliber--15mm? Shoots a 500 
>gr. slug?
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>"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?
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>Dick
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>>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).
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>>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.
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>>ANYWAY, feel free to rip this to shreds with your harsh crits.
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>>http://www.armedamerica.org/andrew-val/av2.jpg
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>>keep crying, that battery's _dead_ dude,
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>>kc
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