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wow, thats pretty good shot of the wing

ii've got one too if you dont mind me posting

Don't mind at all mate and that's a nice shot. I don't have any similar "above the clouds" shots because I rarely take a camera on board with me, however many is the time I've seen similar sights and wished I'd had a camera.

On one flight from Edinburgh to New York we passed just below Greenland on a very clear day and had great views of icebergs and glaciers - I was kicking myself for not having a camera with me that day!

Comment by niblue posted on Jumbo Wing at 15/11/2007 - 03:57

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My theory that is a sunset is because I suppose the B747 is in a more or less straight flight from Hong Kong to Amsterdam (I know that the airways are not at all times a straight line). The direct course or track (show in a globe map) is more or less 280º/300º, and the sun is in the horizon (or near it) and at the nose of the aircraft. For these reasons is that I believe this is a sunset.

Well that sort of makes sense to me so you could well be correct!

Comment by niblue posted on Jumbo Wing at 15/11/2007 - 03:55

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From Hong Kong to Amsterdam, then this must be a sunset! Or I´m wrong?

Well I reckon I'd have been looking east in this shot so that would make it a sunrise I think. It was a long, long time ago though!

Comment by niblue posted on Jumbo Wing at 14/11/2007 - 23:27

Taken somewhere over China on a flight from Hong Kong to Amsterdam.
Pentax MZ5, FA* 24mm F2, Provia 100

Comment by niblue posted on Jumbo Wing at 14/11/2007 - 22:59

I've been using lots of manual focus lenses on the K10D and *istDS recently and the SMC-A 50mm F1.7 was one of those lenses. I've had no issues focusing it, with or without using the AF confirm, including in reasonably low light conditions - being a reasonably fast lens helps a lot. I put a few test shots up at http://www.pbase.com/niblue/smc_a_50_17 including 100% crops.

The SMC-A 50mm F1.7 is a very nice lens and works well on DSLR's because all exposure and metering modes (including flash) are available. It's also a very sharp lens with great contrast & colour and, so far, I've not noticed much CA.

Comment by niblue posted on Pentax SMC A 50MM - how good at 14/11/2007 - 09:46

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Flink.

B&H Photo have it for $659.99 (US)

If the lens even remotely lives up to expectations then not much over £300 would seem a bargain, especially compared to what we have to pay in the UK for even quite slow Pentax prime lenses.

Comment by niblue posted on Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 125mm/2.5 SL at 14/11/2007 - 10:00

Kim & Matt - the film scanner is one of the first Minolta Scan Duals. It's redundant now anway as a shiney new Epson 4490 arrived today and, despite being a flatbed, it's way better than the Minolta (which was bought at least 10 years ago) ever was.

Comment by niblue posted on A way around it ......... at 14/11/2007 - 23:47

Windows ME, along with 98, were definitely versions better to give a miss. 95 was pretty decent and I stuck with that right up until XP was out - and I've no intention of "upgrading" to Vista anytime soon.

I still have one box with Windows NT on it because my SCSI film scanner doesn't work with anything later than NT or Windows 95.

Comment by niblue posted on A way around it ......... at 14/11/2007 - 13:08

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I have to make the following comment:

I am glad I am not judging this weeks competition. We are only Tuesday but what I have seen already has to make this the best competition yet......wow. A set of fantastic pictures. Monochrome (or B+W) is a great medium.

Agreed - best entry so far by a considerable distance!

Comment by niblue posted on Discussion: Weekly Competition #19 The Monochrome Landscape at 14/11/2007 - 10:05