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May 18, 2005 at 11:42 am in reply to: Quality Photo #616199

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To do with static dissipation I believe, nearly all if not all have the, just that BA hasn’t painted over them, others have it embedded 😀
Read about them online last year I think.

Nice shots 🙂 I had a quick look through the guy’s other photos Dan but can’t see any mention of his equipment, so go on, what have you ordered? 😀

Aha well I say the same equipment, but he’s actually using the 300D whereas I have ordered the 350D. Then the 75-300mm USM III lense. And as his is the 300D, the 350D should be a bit better.

May 18, 2005 at 10:44 am in reply to: Afew pics at Man Last Week + Rare Visitors #616213

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I use a Minolta Dimage Z1 :rolleyes:

Hehe nothing wrong with them, until about 5 minutes ago I used the Z10! Just ordered the DSLR now, but the Minolta served me very well.

May 18, 2005 at 10:39 am in reply to: 10 pics from AMS, 16/05/05 #616246

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Wannabe – you might wanna look at this…
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=85918

Hehe already ordered it 😀 Off a different site though for £3 cheaper! Memory is on it’s way from ebuyer, and the 75-300mm USM is also on it’s way too. Cant wait 😀

May 18, 2005 at 10:37 am in reply to: Afew pics at Man Last Week + Rare Visitors #616249

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Some nice stuff there, especially AIRX. Which camera do you use?

May 17, 2005 at 6:22 pm in reply to: EDI today #616748

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Haha, thought you might notice. It softened the Flyglobespan ones a bit too much. 😉
I will do, I’m hoping for better results when they switch runways back to 24.

Thanks Tom. 🙂

Neatimage often kills grass and tree’s, as it treats them as grain and pretty much blurs them out. Sometimes it doesn’t affect it too much, but other times you will just have to stick with the photo how it is.

However, in a moving shot it’s usually ok, and passes off well with a low shutter speed ie. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/739232/L/

May 17, 2005 at 3:03 pm in reply to: EDI today #616960

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Some nices ones there Stuart. Be careful with Neatimage, it sometimes picks out the wrong bits :p

I look forward to seeing some more from that direction soon, and get you uploading to jp.net and anet is no time! 🙂

P.S. Send me a couple of originals on msn, I’ll give them a go on PS7.

May 17, 2005 at 11:32 am in reply to: General Discussion #390125

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Just back from my Spanish Listening exam. God that was hard! Stuck on the first question, never good. And the last question was just ridiculous. Some students were protesting about something, and they were having a radio interview (in Spanish). I had to work out what was going on, who had done what, etc :confused:

Oh well, that’s me done for the week anyway. Not gotta go back to school til next Monday, for Spanish reading.

May 17, 2005 at 11:32 am in reply to: GCSE time #1951605

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Just back from my Spanish Listening exam. God that was hard! Stuck on the first question, never good. And the last question was just ridiculous. Some students were protesting about something, and they were having a radio interview (in Spanish). I had to work out what was going on, who had done what, etc :confused:

Oh well, that’s me done for the week anyway. Not gotta go back to school til next Monday, for Spanish reading.

May 17, 2005 at 11:26 am in reply to: 10 pics from AMS, 16/05/05 #617051

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Oh, and for the 350D, with 18-55mm lense, + 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM III, + 1GB of memory, I can get it for £820! I think that’s pretty damn good, unless anyone thinks they know of getting it cheaper?

May 17, 2005 at 11:23 am in reply to: 10 pics from AMS, 16/05/05 #617058

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Do it! It’s worth it if you can spare the money!

A 350D should be a good camera. Choosing the lense is tricky though. You can do as I did and buy the cheapest on available with as much zoom as possible. You’ll end up with the Sigma 70-300. But when it gets darkish it does not perform well and it does not have stabilization or special features. But it’s a great lense to learn how to use the camera.

Once my budget gets better I will definately be replacing this lense. The Canon 70-200L is an excellent and somewhat affordable lense. But it would mean I loose 100mm zoom. That’s rather a bit. Another option is to save more and go for a 100-400L. That’s much more expensive though and it would mean that I would also have to get myself a new small lense cause my current one is crap.

Choices, choices…

If you don’t mind to buy 2nd hand the 10D should be considered as well. I am not sure of the specs of the 350 but the 10D is much better than the 300D AND has a metal body. So if you accidentally drop it (or bang it on the head of your teacher) it will survive. The plastic body of the 300/350 may not survive a fall.

After looking very carefully into the specs of the 350D, 300D and 10D, I’m quite sure I’d like the 350D. It seems quite superior to the 300D (virtually instant start up, more FPS, much lighter and smaller). It’s basically a stripped out version of the 20D, as the 300D is of the 10D.

I’d love to afford L glass, but that’s not gonna be for a number of years. I think if I go for the Canon 75-300 USM I’d still be looking at some very nice quality shots, and a fairly fast operation. In the future I then have 2 options:

1) go for an L glass lense. Take a step down in zoom, but a step up in quality.

or

2) get a teleconvertor for the 75-300. With a 1.4x convertor, and the 1.6x factor with the DSLR, that’s 672mm of zoom!

May 16, 2005 at 10:46 pm in reply to: 10 pics from AMS, 16/05/05 #617193

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Ahh just seen on jp.net, you’re using the Sigma 75-300. Sorry I’ve been asking everyone today, because I think I’m finally ready to take the big step and get a DSLR! Looks like the 350D should be coming my way quite soon…

May 16, 2005 at 10:36 pm in reply to: 10 pics from AMS, 16/05/05 #617200

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Very nice photos, always good to see the An124. Which lense are you using there?

May 16, 2005 at 5:39 pm in reply to: LHR Pitstop #617564

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Excellent stuff, that one of MIDU is excellent. Which camera/lense are you using?

May 16, 2005 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Some MAN shots from the GLA guy. #617568

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A cheapo Canon f4 80-300mm zoom.

I’m looking at the 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III lense, which I guess is roughly the same. Doesn’t look too bad at all!

May 16, 2005 at 5:35 pm in reply to: A few from Stansted today #617571

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Umm, if I can just ask a kind of OT question about STN, I’m passing through it a week on Wednesday, are there any photo opportunites within the Terminal, also what kind of Traffic am I likely to see (I’m due in [from BSL] at 3:30pm, and out [to GLA] at 6:15pm)? I’m travelling easyJet, so will have luggage to cart around during the Transfer, so won’t be able to leave the Terminal, I wouldn’t think.

There are a couple of places airside in the terminal where you can lean up against the glass. Not any good for photos or proper spotting, but ok if you just want to have a look out and observe what’s going on. The main place is once airside, go towards the far right hand side of the terminal. There (among the shops) you will find a few gaps to look through.

If you step out of the front exit of the terminal, you can turn either way. At the sides of the terminal, you can stand and watch some of the movements. You’re quite far away from everything, but if you’re just looking to pass time then it’s ok.

There’s a FedEx arrival at around 2:30pm, and again at 5:30pm. Asiana usually arrives between 4:00 and 5:00pm. There wont be much happening between 3:30pm and 5:00pm, aside from mainly FR and EZY movements. After 5:00pm you’ll get the CSA, and some of the other lo-co’s such as Norwegian shuttle, SkyEurope etc.

method for getting round heat-haze: STAND CLOSER!

Haha you should try coming to STN. If you stayed where the police tell you, then you would be on a mound, with a fence in the way, and on the other side of the fence the ground is raised so that you can only see half the runway! It’s bloody difficult to get somewhere just for standard approach shots.
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