Photographed this Boeing 737-9 MAX a couple of weeks ago while I was in Austin on an assignment. Not a huge fan of United Airlines, but the aircraft sure looks beautiful.
Received my 7D II back from Canon after a clean and check and a main dial repair. The first game I shot the CF card did not record any images. The card is one of my older Lexar 32GB cards, so I replaced it with a newer Lexar 32GB card for the next game. It worked fine. Today, I used the newer card and it failed also. GRRR! Wonder what they did to the CF slot? I inspected the pins with my Quasar sensor loop and all the pins are good. They have my email so we shall see.
In the mean time, it still takes great photos; even in the rain!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
No pictures for right now, but we just had a joint birthday party at the hangar for Chandler and me, and Chandler's new airplane flew in a half an hour before the big celebration. Didn't think we were going to get it done, bit the weather stayed just a few miles south of the route and our pilot was able to skirt it coming from Memphis. Images to follow, I'm headed back out to the hangar to meet Chandler so we can have some quiet time with his new plane and plan some immediate avionics modifications over at Legend Aircraft.
Happy Birthday to both of you Jim!!!!
Beautiful looking family!!!!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Beautiful post Ray and wonderful image Eddie!!!
Dan
When I initially joined FM I used the name Wrei because Ray was taken. As a Texas boy in the USAF all the guys from other states thought Texas boys went by two names, thus Eddie Wrei, vs Eddie Ray. To me my name is just a moniker so I will have fun with it.
After window training, it takes a while to get your name tag and uniforms. The station I was at did not get secret shoppers, however, one day I got sent to a station (main office) that does get secret shoppers. They hastily found a shirt(too small) and name tag for me. Name tag says Veronica...
I've declared it to be my postal name now, and am not going to bother to fix that. As the oldest of ten, I've learned to just answer to whatever name was hollered out... including my brothers' names. Just don't call me late for dinner.
Ray Swindle wrote:
When I initially joined FM I used the name Wrei because Ray was taken. As a Texas boy in the USAF all the guys from other states thought Texas boys went by two names, thus Eddie Wrei, vs Eddie Ray. To me my name is just a moniker so I will have fun with it.
Ray Swindle wrote:
When I initially joined FM I used the name Wrei because Ray was taken. As a Texas boy in the USAF all the guys from other states thought Texas boys went by two names, thus Eddie Wrei, vs Eddie Ray. To me my name is just a moniker so I will have fun with it.
Fine by me Ray!
I encountered they same thing with many Southern men in the Army. Point-n-fact..when in the infantry and "in contact" we didn't have time to call the full name so I started using initials..."RS..EW"..it saved time and worked well! And the men seemed to enjoy it! Then "call signs" were initiated among the teams.
Dan
I thought about doing the genealogy thing a couple of decades ago. So I asked my dad to tell me about the "Swindle" family. His reply was one sentence: "They were horse thieves in Arkansas and Missouri." Well, I guess the surname was appropriate and glad my first and second names were from the maternal side of the family...sort of.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Speaking of hard drives, has anyone priced them lately? I'm in the process of creating yet another 8 bay arraying 18TB drives. Supply and demand has those drives at close to $700 a pop, a $175 increase over what they sold for a year ago. So, $5600 + - for the hard drives and $700 for the array, it's getting a bit pricey. That array will house an original copy of all my client, stock, family and video files in one enclosure so it's worth it to me.
I built a new array in late September and went with Seagate Exos X16 14TB drives (ST14000NM001G), which cost me $292 then ($20.85/TB). Those same drives are selling for $390 today ($27.78, about 34% higher). And those 18TB drives add another 40% premium in cost-per-terabyte beyond that.
Balancing capacity versus cost is an individual decision, but here's a few thoughts looking at what's available today:
Eight 18TB drives is 144TB. Stepping down to 16TB drives gets you 128TB, so you lose 11.1% of total capacity (16TB) but you save $160 per drive ($1,280 total) which is roughly 25% savings on the drives themselves. Stepping down further to 14TB is a smaller savings. So if you won't rue the capacity reduction, pricing favors the 16TB IMHO.
