[Ron Wood]

Gotta hand it to you guys, you don't give up easily! [img]smile.gif[/img] I had assumed that the camera used was a large format bellows camera with a photographic plate. I had also assumed that since the photo was an archival record, it would have been taken with some precision, backlighed on a copy stand (no shadows, although this could have been accomplished several ways). Also there is no apparent distortion on the remainder of the weapon as well as the magazine beside it. The magazine is to scale and probably was photographed in the same frame as the gun. A lot of assumptions there, but I am inclined to give credit to the old Army photographers who I think were professional enough not to deliberately distort an archive photo. (I don't give up easily either [img]biggrin.gif[/img] )