Like I said, the Vivitar 90-180mm flat field would make one hell of a club. They let me fly with it all the time. Must be your face...
frank theriault wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 6:37 AM, cbwaters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was in Michigan again right after Thanksgiving for my sister's wedding(see >> my earlier post for the funny photographer story). >> Our plane home was delayed so we sat in the airport in Flint for a couple >> hours I took this out the window while somebody else's plane home was >> getting ready for takeoff. >> K10 and FA 28-105. I adjusted the white balance and may have upped the >> sharpening a little in the conversion. >> http://cwaters.smugmug.com/gallery/3930734#228209720 >> >> By the way, they let me take my tripod as a carry-on. Our big suitcase was >> too heavy on check-in (odd because it actually had less stuff than when we >> flew up...) They wanted us to take 5# out or pay a $50 overage charge. The >> first thing I thought of was the tripod so it came out. Some other stuff >> came out and was packed into the garment bags. It wasn't until I was in the >> line at security that I started to think about how many ways the tripod >> could be used as a weapon... I heard the screener say " Oh, that's a bunch >> of camera lenses... and a really nice camera... tripod... ok, it's all >> good." I was pleased because I didn't know what we were going to do at that >> point if they balked. >> >> > > Cool shot. I always thought that job (de-icing airplanes) would be > one of the coldest jobs in the world. > > I haven't flown for over two years. Last time it was with my bike, > and I put my bike's U-lock in my carry-on so it wouldn't rattle around > and hurt my bike (which was boxed and checked). They confiscated it. > Said I could use it as a "bludgeon". > > I tried to explain that a pen would make a better weapon than a lock, > but the nice man disagreed. > > $40 down the tubes. > > Oh well. > > cheers, > frank > > > -- The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team. -- P. J. O'Roark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
