Like most new formats/technology, I guess that full blown, decent zoom digital cameras will gradually come down in price.

I think there will always be a place for ‘proper’ film, or at least prints of your digi images, as you try handing round your PC when you want to show off your latest offerings!

I don’t think anyone has mentioned it yet, but Kodak do a very good online service for getting prints done from a digital source-I don’t actually have a digital camera, but I often scan things in, upload them to Kodak from my PC and get them printed professionally!

Just recently, I’ve been scanning in loads of old odd-sized black and white family shots, tidying them up, and having them printed, all for little cost and for superb service and quality-all from the comfort of my PC! If you’re talking loads and load of prints it may get expensive, but it’s a very good service and I’d recommened it to anyone. Just search ‘Kodak’ in the UK and you should find it okay.

Lastly, Damien has obviously shot himself in the foot there re. the quality of his digital pictures-look, that Spitfire is double exposed, it’s got two canopies!

If I remember rightly, the Stirling’s rather silly legs were the result of increasing the angle of things for take-off, weren’t they? Anyone?

RE: Most and least changed

‘Unlike the Manchester…’

Well, I was talking about the Lancaster, a different type you see…and very contrary to popular misconception, Roy Chadwick-signed Avro documents still exist which prove that a ‘four engined Manchester’ was thought of/desired WAY before it actually became an operational failure-thus, the Lancaster was not strictly ‘born out of failure’ as the story always goes after all, but actually planned along. Oh well, you try and get the whole general aviation public to listen to/accept THAT one!

So to re-state my original point, the operational Lancaster airframe barely changed throughout it’s whole career.

RE: 1947 Aircraft sale……

Agreed, that particular little list is endless…

Peter, good luck with your quest, for over the moors of Binglebang, through the swamp of certain doom, past the hills of nastiness and the dales of smell, lies the lost storage shed of the Lanc spares, that fabled Holy Land we all seek…and there within, you will find the one, true Lanc spare…

Actually, I bloody hate all that ‘Lord Of The Rings’ type-stuff.

Three hours I sat there, and not one piston ring was shown!!!

RE: Trying to find an authentic antenna for……

Sorry mate, no, but I do have a bag of gold dust, Venus’ arms, the Golden Fleece, the Ark of The Covenant and the Holy Grail here if anyone’s interested..!

Mike

😉

RE: Lancaster S-Sugar

Of course the conservation is the most important part, and I’m glad to hear that she’s gradually going to go matt black, though I have a feeling it’ll be a LONG wait before she’s entirely repainted? I mean, that’s going to mean new codes and nose art and everything, isn’t it? What the actual plan there then David?

RE: Spitfire Pilots Notes

Well Ian, usually reprints say as much on the bottom of the rear cover-they always used to when supplied by ‘Air SData Publications’, anyway. I don’t know who prints them these days, though they are still on sale in places like Hendon, but I’m sure any reprint would say as much.