Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] blast from the past
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Jul 7 14:23:54 2008
References: <1be504db0807071316g6d15f3bfh563fc97642ad5490@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Phil Swango wrote:

> I was going through some old storage boxes and ran across some  
> negatives
> from VN that I thought had been lost, though I still have the contact
> sheets.  One set was taken when Nancy Sinatra was doing a USO tour  
> in late
> '66 and visited our post just outside of Saigon.  I managed to find  
> my way
> into where she was hanging out backstage and got a few pictures.   
> IIRC, the
> camera would have been an M3 and 50mm Summicron: http://tinyurl.com/5uu3wu
>
> They're nothing to shout about but I'm glad I found them anyway.  My
> daughter will enjoy them I'm sure.  You can't tell from the photos  
> but her
> dress and boots were bright pink.  Nancy would been 26 at the time,  
> same age
> as I was.  Her wiki article mentions the USO tour in 66-7.

so young...


I guess we all were,


memorable photos Phil, very nice tones...


Steve





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