would like to see the pictures you took of that steam train, please.
>From: Francis Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Pentax and steam trains >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:08:18 +0100 > >This weekend, I was just coming back to Edinburgh from a party on one >of Scottish islands when I noticed a whole bunch of people waiting by >the side of the road with obscene amounts of camera gear. I saw >several Pentax 67s plus really hefty tripods. A bit further on, we >realised what all the fuss was about when we saw the white plume from >the chminey of a steam train. We raced it along the road and found a >place to park and waited for the train. > >After a surprisingly long wait, the train finally came and I snapped >away at it with my MX and SMC 85/2. I wish I had had my 135 or even >my A70-210, but alas I didn't think I'd have needed them this >weekend. Soon after, a bus carrying all the gear (and their owners) >pulled up and the gear piled out (carried by their owners.) > >The train stopped on the tracks. Reversed about one kilometre and ran >the same piece of track again. > >After a quick chat with the owners of the gear, it turned out that >they were members of some national camera club and that they had >scheduled the train for the weekend. They'd all paid 50ukp each for >the event and my friend and I just happened to have been in the right >place at the right time. > >I thought I have a lot of gear. One of the guys I spoke to had two >6X7s and an KX mounted on a wooden bracket on top of his Benbo (I >think). I saw some other guy walk past with two LXen with winders (or >maybe they were actually motordrives) mounted side-by-side on a >monopod. I certainly suffered from gear-envy. > >I did notice a lot of Pentax gear. Was anyone on this list part of >that group? If I remember correctly, we took photographs about 10 >miles from Bridge of Orchy, towards Glencoe, Rannoch Moor and Glen >Etive. > >By the way, it was great fun. > >Frank. > >-- >Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student. >LFCS, Div. of Informatics, Uni. of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. >Tel: +44 131 6505185. Fax: +44 131 6677209. Office: 1603, JCMB, KB. >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/fhlt/ >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
