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I have really enjoyed the discussion on Warbonnets and Zoom lenses, let me respond to both. On Warbonnets: There are many memories about all the work that Mark Lynn and I out into our Warbonnet book by Pentrex that came out in 1994 "Warbonnets from Super Chief to Super Fleet". Yes we got paid for writing it. But the concept and idea to cover in color every model that ever the famous scheme was driven by a love of what I believe to be the best paint scheme ever to adorn a diesel. It looks good on everything that got it, bar the DL-109. It has a very powerful emotional following as eveident by the posts I read. It is American icon. I found this out in research I did for the book. Even non- railfans remember it once they have seen it. The book was well receieved and sold out in a little over a year. The highlight of the book besides all the fine photos we showcased was the forward written by Micheal Gross the TV/movie actor who is a huge ATSF fan. He states it so well when he says "That colorful design that sprang from the imaginative brush of a General Motors artist has become perennial favorite for the railfan community, and is almost synonymous with the railroad itself........The Warbonnet is more than just a design, more than just a logo, it's a feeling. Some can tell you, in great detail where exactly where that feeling began." Some of you gave testimony to that fact. Long live the Warbonnet. On Zoom vs fixed lens: I've done both. I had a full bag of various Nikon fixed focal lengths and they worked well. Thank God for photo back packs. I have few of them left but have fallen in love with my Nikon 80-200 2.8 and found it to be everthing the fixed lens were. I have enlarged my work to 24x30 and larger for a local photo studio to display in their lobby. The photos are tack sharp and get compliments all the time. Dan Pope Arlington, Texas ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
