Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/05

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Pictures from Airplanes...
From: "Jan Decher" <dech0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 09:30:26 -0500

	If you must shoot from a (big) airplane, ask to be fastened
> 	onto the airplane's wings - like the recent cigarette ads -
> 	then you and your Leica can get a good shot of the ground below.
> 
> 	In the 20's they even had some people walking on the wings
> 	- but that was just at the time when Oskar Barnack was
> 	developing the Kleinfilmkamera, Leica I.

If you have to walk out on the wings on smaller airplanes have a friend advance 
outward on the opposing wing as you go about your photography, to maintain the 
airplanes balance. Use neckstrap to secure Leica.  (Wear protective head gear 
against high-flying song birds, bats, or satellite debris). ;-)

Jan