My First Com-Doc Card
Combat Documentary Photographers had cards affording them priority transportation and access.
The U-10 was used for leaflet dropping, loud speaker information and Photo Reconnaissance. It was one of many aircraft in which I flew.
The U-10 was also used to pick up messages from downed Airmen. I shot the actual event with the hook in the parachute line. I used a Pentax Spotmatic with 300mm f/5.6 Takumar lens. The film was Tri-X Pan 400 processed in Acufine developer and pushed to ASA 1200. The shutter was 1/1000th of a second and the aperature was set at f/8, using the super accurate built in averaging meter (stop down).
6 responses
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Liz A###### said (24 Aug 2008):
Absolutely fascinating, Steve! Love the picture, and the story, esp. how the shot was made!
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John Linton gave props (24 Aug 2008):
This rocks!
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Lynn H gave props (25 Aug 2008):
John's right, this ROCKS!! Wow!
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Christophe Le Canne gave props (11 Sep 2008):
Well done !
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Karen Foto Fiddler gave props (11 Apr 2009):
Nice job!
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Paul Lavallee gave props (18 Sep 2009):
This is awesome!
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