RE: new member wants to share pics

Right. I thought it was a little unusual for a Cessna to be parked behind an A-10…

There’s not a special place for pics as such, by the way. It’s just that an A-10 as a military jet is better placed on the Airforces Monthly board as that’s where people talk about such things. No big deal though!

RE: C54s at North Weald

Thanks for posting those. I’d like to get down there and see them myself but that may or may not happen… They are great looking aircraft, for sure.

RE: new member wants to share pics

Well, the beasty above would be a Shackleton. Dead giveaway is the double props.

And your jet here is an A-10 – twin tails and huge cannon on the front! Where was that taken, by the way?

Nice pictures, let’s see more!

RE: Film versus digital

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-10-02 AT 06:55 AM (GMT)]Well, here’s my opinion for the melting pot.

I don’t believe film/slides are dead at all. We’re all talking here about 10-100MB files, for a start. Even given the fact that hard discs are cheaper and bigger all the time, how many of you really want to trust your entire image archive to computer hardware that has a nasty habit of breaking when you most need it? And how much space would you need to store, say, 50,000 images? A box of slides isn’t going anywhere and can be referenced whenever you like.

Of course digital cameras have their place, and I’d like to get a D60 or better at some point in the future. The news reporters I saw at Duxford the other day were all using D60/D30/D1Xs, with a battery of laptops behind them. There are reasons for this as you all know, and fair play, that’s where the world is going in terms of reporting.

For another comparison of film, I can offer the two images below. One is the full frame of the Shuttleworth SE5A, the other is a crop of the full scan at 4000 dpi. Camera was a Canon EOS 1V at 400mm, scanner is a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000. I don’t have a digital version of the shot but it may offer people a useful comparison with Damien’s film image. For the record, it prints very nicely at 8×10 inches (my printer only goes to A4 size).

Edited to add: This would have been on Fuji Superia 400 at 250/s.
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RE: Connie on the way to Duxford!!!

Blimey Damien, that was quick!

Nice piccies 🙂 Good to meet you, too.

The Connie started her engines dead on 16:30 and took off a few minutes afterwards, and did one of those steep-turn banking flypasts we usually only dream of! Now she is probably landed already in Manston, or nearly so.

RE: Connie visits Duxford today

No worries Damien 🙂 Hopefully it (and me) will be at Duxford tomorrow…

RogerS, no idea why it’s returned to Iceland; it’s apparently ‘gone tech’ but to what extent I don’t know.

RE: Connie visits Duxford today

Thanks 🙂