No IR, so very rarely an issue

Thanks, but I should have made it clear - the only ones with the Bigma are the ones of the Nanchangs. For the ground shots it was the DA17-70 on the camera.

The Bigma still feels very heavy when it comes to the inevitable swinging it around that you have to do to follow the moving aircraft. I need to get used to it a lot more, I think, before I start getting decent results.

A funny thought occurs to me...

We can have a thread about a Golf thread... but not a Golf thread.

Well it made me laugh, anyway.

Hmm...

Note to self... more effort required...

Nah, Google is your friend. You can cover up all kinds of ignorance with that - guess how I know.

That WW1 fighter I mentioned - I had no idea what it was until I looked it up.

I know a bit about the 1979 Grumman Cheetah in picture 3, and nothing at all about the pair of Nanchang CJ-6As in the last two pictures, other than the fact that they're very similar to the more common Yak 52. In fact originally, I didn't even know they weren't Yak 52s until I'd made a muppet out of myself.

Mostly I'm hopeless at aircraft recognition. A little research covers a lot of cluelessness.

There, my secret is out

And there was me, thinking perhaps I'd made JR a bit grumpy with talk of a non-PU Pentax forum, just before the Golf thread got closed.

Look on the bright side, plenty of people can't tell the difference between a Spitfire and a Hurricane.

Obviously, they need a good slap along with their remedial education, and after all that dishwasher filling, I reckon you'll be in the mood to provide it.

Yesterday it was a right pain to transport the K-5 in a camera bag with a small lens on it, then change to the Bigma, and then back again for the journey home.

So I'm now looking at getting a large holster bag that will take the K-5 and the Bigma.

I'm looking so far at ThinkTank - something like this (is that big enough/ bigger than I need?), or possibly what appears to be the closest Lowepro equivalent.

I'd appreciate any tips from anyone with experience of this sort of bag or similar.

Well in the interests of historical accuracy, these risks need to be taken. Stiff upper lip and all that

Its G-MKXI, which is a Mk XI (Photo-reconnaisance version).

Thanks

I don't know which Spitfire it is, I'm afraid, though I might possibly be able to find out tomorrow if I give ops a call. They should have the reg from the booking-in sheets, so from that it should be possible to get all the details. I'll see what I can do.