[Leica] More from the Udvar-Hazy Center

[nicholsj at edge.net (JAMES NICHOLS)]

Chandos,

Beautiful shots, especially given the lighting situation.  I believe your
"P-39" is actually a P-38 Lockheed Lightning, which had the center pod for
pilot and weaponry, and engines mounted in outboard pods which also
supported the tail.

Jim Nichols
> [Original Message]
> From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 9/12/2004 8:48:04 AM
> Subject: [Leica] More from the Udvar-Hazy Center
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> Here're a few more from the Udvar-Hazy collection of the National Air
> and Space Museum, near Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC.
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> I went out on a drizzly Sunday morning at opening time; there was
> already a short line to enter.  Lighting is comprised of a lovely,
> diffused skylight glow and arc lights that fry your retinas, with
> various high-intensity spots more or less randomly distributed.  I found
> it a challenge to get *any* decent images, and stuck with the medium
> telephoto throughout; most of these are exposed at ISO 800 and wide open
> on the Olympus 50/2.
>
> I confess that I found this sort of 'documentary' work utterly relaxing,
> as opposed to confronting disaffected subjects in the Green Leafe, for
> instance.
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> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687492&size=lg
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> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687503&size=lg
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> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687485&size=lg
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> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687499&size=lg
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> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2687505&size=lg
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> The titling's a little shaky. I can't seem to put my hands on the small
> notebook in which I jotted down technical info about the aircraft, and
> the NASM website's not much help.
>
> Comments, derision, etc. invited, as ever.
>
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