Certainly a well produced image. Enjoyed your relating the camera history and subject narrative.
Jack --- On Fri, 5/23/08, Daniel J. Matyola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daniel J. Matyola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PESO: Refueling > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 6:50 AM > I had a bit of trouble deciding what to submit for the June > PUG, as > the theme seemed pretty open. I ended up submitting what I > think is > the first shot I submitted to the PUG, in 2000. It was > also one of my > first efforts with the ancient (but then new to me) 6x7. > > In the process of picking a submission, I also considered > shots from > my first Pentax camera. In 1966, I was stationed in the > Far East, and > I flew to Japan to deliver a plane for maintenance and > bring back one > that had been serviced. While there, I purchased a camera > and other > things I couldn't get where I was. I intended to buy a > Minolta SRT > 101, since I had borrowed one from a friend, and liked the > way it > operated. The sales person at the PX, however, showed me a > Spotmatic, > and said that it was mechanically similar, but had much > better > "glass." [Very perceptive] He also said that > the same camera was > being sold in the states as a Honeywell, which was a brand > name I knew > and respected. On his advice, I bought an Asahi Pentax > Spotmatic. > That was about 2 years after the Spotty was introduced in > connection > with the 1964 Olympics. I used that camera for 20 years, > before > replacing it with a SuperProgram. I still have my first > Spotmatic, > and it still works. I also have a Honeywell Spotmatic, a > Pentax > Spotmatic (without the Asahi name), and a Sears clone that > used the > screwmount lenses. > > This is probably not my first photograph with the > Spotmatic, but it is > from my first roll of film, and it is the only one I have > left from > that original roll. This is a scan of a print from a > slide, but most > of the imperfections are on the plexiglass through which > the image was > taken. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5242937 > > The shot was taken on our way back from Japan. Our F-4 > fighter jet is > being refueled from a tanker. The photograph shows the > connection. > The "male" part of the connection is our > refueling probe, which was > extended from the side of the plane just before approaching > the > tanker. The circular "basket" or drogue is the > female connection at > the end of the fuel line trailed by the tanker. It is the > target used > by the pilot in connecting to the refueling line. As the > plane's > radar intercept officer, I took this shot from the back > seat while > refueling was in progress. > > Comments, of course, are welcome. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
