Marmite – Love it – hate Guinness – fond of Branston Pickle though

if anyone is interested to see them….

Bit of a silly comment really – of course we want more – and more = and more – we’re quite greedy, you see. You’ll never be able to relieve my hunger for pics like this.

I used my friend’s Fuji S5500 at the weekend, it was very good, but I did find that the shutter lag was worse than my Casio, and that the Viewfinder was not particularly high resolution.
In contrast I showed my friend my EOS300, and like you say Gary, it is in a different league of seeing what you’re shooting.

My choice of Prosumer has now come down to:
Canon S2, S3 or Pro 1
Nikon 8700
Fuji S7000 or S9000
Olympus SP500

Forget those two Fuji’s – old technology, relatively slow by today’s standards, and aren’t as well suited to photographing aircraft in flight.

Look at, instead, the S5600Zoom, S6500fd, S9600Zoom and if you want a dSLR, the Fuji S3 Pro.

Edit:— Ooops the S3 Pro has just been supersceded with the S5 Pro!

Amazingly, improvements will include: –

1) LAN Adapter to enable sending of image data at high speed over wireless LAN or Ethernet.

How many were at Finningley in, say, 1973/4? I was there, in Engineering, but only ever saw one in very deep servicing during my whole time there.

Affectionately entitled “The Flying Pig”.

Scouse – the modern Fujis are much better than than that these days – the S7000 is of an older basic design than the S5600/S5200 and the S9500 – which have a much improved shutter lag performance – it’s practically instantaneous now.

Wessex Boy – if you’re taking photos of aircraft in flight – whatever you finally choose make sure it has a 10x zoom at least (note that 10x means slightly different things to different manufacturers, but not enough as makes a real difference).

You can pick up a decent Prosumer for about £200. The minimum you’ll pick up an equivalent performing DSLR for is going to be £600+, by the time you’ve got a lens good enough and big enough to cope.

However, I don’t deny that you MIGHT want to go onto DSLRs later.

Taken with a FinePix S5000 Prosumer:

Second in my list of nice looking jets, would be the Cessna Dragonfly, and thirdly the Martin B57/EE Canberra – I have a preference for the in-line seating arrangement from an aesthetic point of view, though.

To be fair, conversion can be done properly and sensitively sometimes.

Royal William Yard, a Naval vitalling yard in Plymouth, (seen here during the filming of “Churchill – The Holywood Years”) has been very nicely converted into apartments and shops.

I used to live right next door when the movie was being filmed.