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Thanks Marcelo. The tactical battles on Friday and Saturday were fantastic. A full platoon with heavy weapon attachment (80 men) faced by about 200 Germans (with artillery, mortars and anti-tank weapons). There was a lot of maneuvering and probing in a snow-coated stretch of woods. Good fun, but not enough time to take many pictures...or have lunch for that matter.

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The gear and clothing looks incredibly authentic. BTW, how are the 'battles' regulated? Are blanks used? Or are the guns disabled in some way?

John

Mr_Flibble said:
Thanks Marcelo. The tactical battles on Friday and Saturday were fantastic. A full platoon with heavy weapon attachment (80 men) faced by about 200 Germans (with artillery, mortars and anti-tank weapons). There was a lot of maneuvering and probing in a snow-coated stretch of woods. Good fun, but not enough time to take many pictures...or have lunch for that matter.
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A lot of the guns and gear is authentic. The uniforms are usually reproductions. we use blank-adapted guns and some pyrotechnics (smoke pods, thunderflash grenades and flares).
The blanks are still dangerous so a safety distance of about 10 yards is maintained for firing at someone. The rest is regulated by an honour system; If you see someone aiming in your direction you take cover or take a 'hit' and play dead or wounded for a while, until the battle has moved on or the medics come and get you.

At some other tacticals we've used referees to allocate sniper and artillery hits.

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Incredible stuff! Love the attention to detail. It must give you an interesting insight into how it would have been (obviously without the absolute terror).

I have always been interested in WWII weaponry. I once purchased and old ex-WWII Mauser K98 which kicked like a mule but that was years ago as a teenager when you could get military surplus quite cheap in Australia. I think it cost less than $100 at the time.

BTW, looks frigg'n cold!

Ohh, and images are great too 🙂

Cheers - John

Mr_Flibble said:
Here's some youtube footage from a fellow photographer from the battle on Saturday (my team missed the first 3 hours of this because of a breakdown with one of the GMC trucks 🙁 ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Ax7GdtV7BA
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I finally managed to get out with mine so here's a few, nothing special. Although I'm finding the 50 framelines a bit conservative compared to what the end result is.

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You can always crop, better that the other way round...

I like the second one. The first one is a little too busy for me. Although it's a nice BW-conversion.
 
Nice shots Guaranteed, especially the second one. Myself, I'm more annoyed at the frame-lines on my R-D1 being tilted then them not being accurate for the focal distance.

My last shot of 2011
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35mm f/1.7 Ultron, wide open @ 1/30th and 1600 ISO
 
krötenblender said:
You can always crop, better that the other way round...

I like the second one. The first one is a little too busy for me. Although it's a nice BW-conversion.
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Lol definitely better the way it is, I just hadn't recalled reading much about it and was curious how normal it was. As for the first pic I thought the same which is why I opted for the B&W. Initially I enjoyed all of the different colors but when I got to editing it was another story(Silver Efex Pro 2 for the conversion).

Mr_Flibble said:
Nice shots Guaranteed, especially the second one. Myself, I'm more annoyed at the frame-lines on my R-D1 being tilted then them not being accurate for the focal distance.

My last shot of 2011

35mm f/1.7 Ultron, wide open @ 1/30th and 1600 ISO
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Titled, I'm not sure how I'd go about dealing with that myself. Is there a fix for it?

Nice shot BTW, I may have to keep an eye out for an Ultron as my 35mm option.
 
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