Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] Holiday snaps 1 - Spits and Arrows
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Aug 18 20:10:43 2007

> At 04:00 PM 8/18/2007, you wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> just got back from 3 weeks in the UK last night.
>> 
>> Here are a few shots taken at the 167th Whitby Regatta, the Red
>> Arrows aerobatic team and a couple of Spitfires (one early model and
>> one late one)
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070812-_MG_6824-1.jpg
>> .html 
>> 
>> (Early)
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6548-1.jpg
>> .html 
>> 
>> (Late - with D-Day stripes Mk LF IXe (?) 1944)
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070812-_MG_6823-1.jpg
>> .html 
>> 
>> (Early model - Mk IIa (?) 1940)
>> 
>> Rather more modern , and exciting in a different way - The Red
>> Arrows - regular visitors to the Whitby Regatta
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6597-1.jpg
>> .html 
>> 
>> All 9 aircraft coming in over the bay
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6670-1-2.j
>> pg.html 
>> 
>> A Trio showing off
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6671-1-2.j
>> pg.html 
>> 
>> An (apparently ) close encounter
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/20070811-_MG_6573-1-2.j
>> pg.html 
>> 
>> Diving out of a clear blue sky
Are you shooting these wide open at 1.8 as these seem to indicate?
Or is that the speed of the lens and they're not telling you?

Mark William Rabiner
Harlem, NY

rabinergroup.com



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