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August 20, 2007 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Dawlish Carnival #526744

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I do have some, but they flew too far away from the shore for me to get any decent photographs of them. My camera has only a 10.7x zoom. 🙁

But Ill have a second look at them, and if I can find anything worth recovering, I’ll put them on my website.

Edit: Well I’ve done that, and all I have is a lot of tiny black specks in the distance 🙁

The Army flew too high and too far away, and the blue eagles must have been flying over the wrong bit of coastline!!!!

This is not their fault, of course, it was probably due to the fact that there were boats close inshore, which would have pushed the display line further away. In Plymouth the bay would have been emptied except for essential traffic.

I’m going to have to reconsider whether or not I can get good pictures with the 1.5x teleconverter I have. I’ve discarded it recently for producing rubbish results. 🙁

August 19, 2007 at 11:13 pm in reply to: A Somewhat Dull Elvington! 18/8/07. BIG Post! #526909

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Well what do I say mate?! Absolutely amazing. Why the hell did i spend my weekend in Plymouth?!

You’d have to explain the reason to me too, I live in Plymouth and I can honestly say there was nothing of any significance happening, aviation wise, (or anything else for that matter) last weekend!

But next weekend there’s a military vehicle exhibition over at Mount Edgecombe Park.

Great photos Paul.

August 19, 2007 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Fuji S9600 problems. #453274

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Not sure what you’re trying to do, but it is the camera which produces RAW (*.RAF in FujiSpeak) files, and it needs to be set up via the camera’s menu (in take photo mode). Download the .RAF files to your PC in the usual manner and you can then use S7RAW to process the images. I recommend saving the processed images as TIFs, which are uncompressed.

S7RAW can be used to ensure that .RAF files are visible as thumbnails under XP Exploder, too.

If the images need any further processing/converting/compressing into JPGs, then use something like PaintShop Pro, Photoshop, or (free to download and use) The Gimp.

Hope this helps.

August 15, 2007 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Help, my camera has a bug (it's not what you think) #453380

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Its no good, I know this is very serious, but I can’t help it.

I keep visualising; you have the camera to your face, looking through the view finder. The cat flea/fruit fly turns round, looks you in the eye, down the lens, as big as a house, with a sheepish grin & waves at you.

You jerk the camera away from your face, with an expression of incredulity, blink once or twice, look again and he’s gone!

😀 😀

August 15, 2007 at 1:08 am in reply to: Captions wanted. Apache #527159

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daka daka daka daka daka……

August 15, 2007 at 12:30 am in reply to: Help, my camera has a bug (it's not what you think) #453388

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I’m no bug expert, but 3 or 4 months seems quite a long time for such a tiny insect to stay alive, never mind starve and stay alive!

It must be feeding on something, and had some little bugletts. They usually lay about 200 eggs, so your camera would be well infested by now, especially if you’d been eating any fruit and dropped it in the camera while changing a lens!

http://www.a1reptiles.com/a1ffcare.html

August 14, 2007 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Headcorn Proms #527314

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The last one is my favourite, I wouldn’t mind better the chap in the photo wouldn’t mind having a framed copy.

Of course, now I’m going to be lambasted for not knowing his name – that’s life!

August 14, 2007 at 2:37 am in reply to: Unauthorised Flying at Kemble !!?? #434791

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I was thinking it might mean some sort of ban on birds, bats and flying squirrels!!!! Since when did they get a PPL, or any kind of certificate of airworthiness for that matter? And they’re always night flying without lights!

(Shoot The Pigeon, Shoot The Pigeon — Where is that Dick Dastardly when you need him?)

:diablo:

August 14, 2007 at 2:03 am in reply to: Please help me get sharp photos!! #453413

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Am I right in believing that if you set at “Infinity” it doesn’t necessarily mean that you will have ANYTHING your photographing truly in focus – because focusing on infinity means focusing at some hypothetical far off distance, much further than the eye can see…? And anything that is in focus is just a by product of depth-of-field, …… or a figment of your imagination!! 😀

Just curious

August 11, 2007 at 10:44 pm in reply to: Photo ID #1305183

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Wild guess, but is it Dyce/Aberdeen? I’ve only been there twice, once to fly to Stornaway, and back again, and that was in the mid 1970’s.

Stingy RAF wouldn’t take us in Jaguars or Shackletons direct from Lossie. 🙁

August 11, 2007 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Piece of Cake – finale #1305196

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But be very wary of cheap imitations = [click]!!!

August 11, 2007 at 10:15 pm in reply to: Mossie video… #1305201

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It does look very realistic, but I doubt the Mossie’s undercarriage ever came down in perfect syncronicity.

August 10, 2007 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Taking pictures at Duxford #527374

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Indeed. He has left us, and requested that everything he has ever posted be deleted.

Moggy

That’s a huge loss to this site. A great shame. I hope he is okay.

August 10, 2007 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Fuji S9600 problems. #453705

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Additionally, you have more control over the photos if you take them in RAW (.raf) mode.

You can then process the images as they are recorded directly onto the CCD, rather than rely on the S9600’s internal processor, which converts them to jpegs. But I will only manage to get 140 or so images on a 2 gig xD card. But you can find those for about £19 or so pounds online, including delivery.

You, obviously, need software to read the raw files, and you can get S7RAW here.[click] I’ve only been playing with it for a few days myself, but I’m surprised how much better I can make the pictures look using this tool.

I use a Finepix S6500fd, which is similar to your S9600.

August 7, 2007 at 1:14 pm in reply to: USS Dwight D Eisenhower #527820

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A-6E
E-6A
EA-6

Which is the odd-one out?? :diablo:

Ken

PS – Just on the off chance I Googled for AE-6, thinking, no, there can’t be – but there is !!! :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shasta_(AE-6)

….and…..

There’s a 6AE !! http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/power-devices-batteries/olympus-c-6ae/

E-6A – Mercury, based on the Boeing 707/KC135 airframe for TACAMO operation. Still a naval aircraft, but hardly suitable for on/off-deck operations.

The others are, of course Intruder & Prowler designations – which are based on the Intruder A-6 airframe.
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