Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-17 Thread Rick Womer
...@which.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2012 5:21 AM Subject: PESOs: Duxford Airshow We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-17 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com Sent: September 17, 2012 9/17/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow Pardon the late comment... but I really like all 3 of these.  Nice composition, nice colors

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 11 September 2012 12:45, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html The

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012 4:22 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow Thanks John. I guess you'd have been at Kingston just prior

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
Thanks Mark. Yes, it's a pleasure to see the B17 still flying. At Duxford there's a memorial to all of the US aircrews who were lost during WW2. There's an image of each aircraft lost engraved on the glass walls of the walkway leading up to the museum. Very moving. Chris On 10 September 2012

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 9 September 2012 16:11, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: On 9 September 2012 14:28, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I really enjoyed that gallery, Chris. I thought that many of these shots

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html The Aerostars Yak-50 display team did a pretty good job too:

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Mitchell
-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2012 7:22 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESOs: Duxford Airshow We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk

RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-10 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
: RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow Great shots Chris - I was once at Farnborough when both the Vulcan and the Victor were performing: beautiful to watch but the sound of the engines on full throttle got you right in the guts! Interested in your working at the Gnat factory: couple of months ago I went

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-10 Thread Mark C
Very nice set of photos, all of them. The B17 is my favorite but I just like B17's Mark On 9/9/2012 5:21 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html

RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-10 Thread John Coyle
-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow Thanks John. I guess you'd have been at Kingston just prior to the Hawker Siddeley takeover? I was at Hamble, near Southampton, just after so it was no longer called Follands. Gnat production had finished, but it was still the RAF's jet trainer

RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-10 Thread John Coyle
Thanks Frank! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of knarftheria...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2012 7:10 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow Great story, John

PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Mitchell
We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html The Aerostars Yak-50 display team did a pretty good job too: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3277.html And,

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Mitchell
Forgot to say - K7 and F* 300mm 4.5 On 9 September 2012 10:21, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html The Aerostars Yak-50

RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying: http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/Airshows1/Duxford2012/slides/_IMG3159.html That's not Spock! Nice shots though. B

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Bruce Walker
I really enjoyed that gallery, Chris. I thought that many of these shots could do with some sharpening though. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: We went yesterday and the undoubted star of the show was the only Vulcan still flying:

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Mitchell
On 9 September 2012 14:28, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I really enjoyed that gallery, Chris. I thought that many of these shots could do with some sharpening though. Thanks Bruce. Mostly motion blur I think. Panning a 300mm lens with a shutter speed that shows propeller blur is

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Sullivan
Chris, I looked thru the entire gallery and it looks good! I enjoyed seeing the planes. Was that a Spitfire with a back seat? Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: On 9 September 2012 14:28, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Mitchell
Thanks Bob, Yes it's a T9 trainer. A number of single seaters were converted during the 1940s as dual seat trainers to train Seafire pilots in carrier operations. There are only a couple left, both in the UK I think, although there is talk of a team starting manufacturing one from scratch. Up

Re: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread Bruce Walker
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: On 9 September 2012 14:28, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I really enjoyed that gallery, Chris. I thought that many of these shots could do with some sharpening though. Thanks Bruce. Mostly motion

RE: PESOs: Duxford Airshow

2012-09-09 Thread John Coyle
) are probably still in it... John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Chris Mitchell Sent: Sunday, 9 September 2012 7:22 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESOs: Duxford Airshow We went yesterday