Jay: That 24 PC-E paired wit the 850 put out a fantastic image (not to mention composition). I am always impressed by the clarity of your photos. Maybe when I hit the lottery I can afford to get that combo!
Any Game of Thrones fans/haters/followers here? I believe Reagan is one unless I am mistaken.
Not sure what they are doing to the show but no one seems to be liking it.
India series continued & for the animal lovers - DF & 105 2.5 AI
Went out to the Museum of Mountain Flying this morning to try and get some shots of Miss Montana before she departs tomorrow for the Normandy D-Day Celebration June 6th. There will be several C-47s (DC-3s) flying as a group from Oxford Connecticut, to Goose Bay Labrador, to Narsarsuaq Greenland, to Reykjavik Iceland, to Prestwick Scotland, and and finally Duxford Air Base England prior to all participating in a formation parachute drop at Normandy!
Although Miss Montana was not built until long after D-Day she has a long history with the Johnson Flying Service in Missoula and was the aircraft that carried 15 smokejumpers to the deadly Mann Gulch Fire near Helena, MT on August 5th 1949. Shortly after the jumpers landed the fire exploded due to high winds. There was one forest ranger on the ground to meet the jumpers making a total of i6 personnel at the fire. When the fire exploded (consumed over 3,000 acres in about 10 minutes 14 of those men were killed. The story is immortalized in Norman Maclean's "Young Men and Fire" which is an amazing read. Maclean also wrote "A River Runs Through It" which was made into a beautiful movie directed by Robert Redford.
Anyway along with Miss Montana in the museum today was a second DC-3 bearing Western Airlines paint job. This was one of the very first DC-3s purchased by the airlines and was know as a Douglas Sleeper Transport - it had 7 upper and 7 lower berths plus a separate lounge! Imagine that in 1940.....
Here are some picks of these two planes, one nose to nose! Both aircraft are owned by the Museum.
Miss Montana will be joining up with the C-53 from Ohio that Laura pictured a couple of pages ago.
Very jealous, Jack. I wanted to get photos of Miss Montana, too. They ran a story in the Missoulian the other day that had a photo of the woman who posed for the painting, as she is still alive at 95. If I understood the article, she was first on a B-25 that her husband flew in the Pacific Theater:
graytrekker wrote:
Very jealous, Jack. I wanted to get photos of Miss Montana, too. They ran a story in the Missoulian the other day that had a photo of the woman who posed for the painting, as she is still alive at 95. If I understood the article, she was first on a B-25 that her husband flew in the Pacific Theater:
CGrindahl wrote:
[...] This was shot with the 55 f/1.2 S.C. AI which is perhaps my favorite walk around lens... it better be or how else would I justify owning THREE of them...
Well, Curtis, if you feel overburdened with THREE of them, I'd be happy to lighten your load.
A few questions for you aircraft buffs: What are the red "tick marks" at the base of the propeller blades on that DC-3? Did the DC-3 have variable pitch propellers; and if so, were the marks for setting the static pitch?
Ballard wrote:
Well, Curtis, if you feel overburdened with THREE of them, I'd be happy to lighten your load.
If I recall accurately Ken, you've made that offer before... I'll keep it in mind if I decide to shrink my kit. I have no idea what might motivate me to go in that direction, but one never knows what the future holds...
Of course, if you can't wait... there is always this pre-AI lens that would work just fine on your Df...
lsds wrote:
Any Game of Thrones fans/haters/followers here? I believe Reagan is one unless I am mistaken.
Not sure what they are doing to the show but no one seems to be liking it.
I love every second of it from Season 1 on
Just never get attached to any 1 character because they are going to die
Dave (mysh) has 4 of them in his listing, 1 of which is sold if you want to keep it in the family as it were.
CGrindahl wrote:
If I recall accurately Ken, you've made that offer before... I'll keep it in mind if I decide to shrink my kit. I have no idea what might motivate me to go in that direction, but one never knows what the future holds...
Of course, if you can't wait... there is always this pre-AI lens that would work just fine on your Df...
Continuing the quest for a small MLC as a companion to my DSLR, I am now onto my 6th MLC having sold everything else - The Olympus EM-5 mk II. Little did I know that I would be buying into world of pain. To say those buttons on top panel clubbed in a herd are difficult to operate is an understatement. Oh and crazy menu system/customization options? Hot damn.
Regardless. Here's a shot with EM5mkII + Fotodiox adapter + Nikkor 55 f/3.5 Micro - handheld. Thankfully, the IBIS is, in one word, extra ordinary and high ISO performance is good. The Nikkor is fabulous as always. No complaints
