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xpatUSA
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TX, United States
Works as a
Retired Engineer
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Dec 15, 2011
About me:
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Thanks for reminding me of visiting there long ago!
Scottelly: I wouldn't buy anything from a company that doesn't know how to spell their own name.
... or spell their own model names, eh? ;-)
Especially nice with the flat-head screwdriver - so reminiscent of yesteryear.
paulbysea: My first camera was a Praktica MTL3, which I bought in 1977, learnt a lot about how to use a camera and how to get the exposure right and how to focus manually. A big step was getting a 135 mm short telephoto lens. Remember the camera fondly but was very happy to upgrade once funds allowed.
+1.
Kept and used mine until the early '90s until I replaced it with a Kodak 643 point-and-shoot. Horrible little thing, quickly replaced by a Nikon DSLR ...
"with the aim of intersecting the asteroid" ...
That would "intercepting" - pardon my pedantry. :)
Morvegil: SO what's the advantage of a Foveon sensor?
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Scottelly: Adobe - don't install it.
Amen to that, Scott!
Greg OH: The problem is financial hanky panky that has nothing to do with photography. Remember Enron? Olympus is the Japanese Enron.
I remember Enron well. I was working for Dynegy at the time, a fine energy company that got scuttled by the Enron debacle.
Excellent. What a magic moment!
That would be "Wetzlar", not "Wetzler" ...
xpatUSA: I worked on XH558 long ago at RAF Waddington. It's predecessor XH557 was always going U/S ... we hated it!
Obviously, @MannyZero has no idea what "Duxford" refers to!
xpatUSA: I worked on XH558 long ago at RAF Waddington. It's predecessor XH557 was always going U/S ... we hated it!
RAF slang for "unserviceable" i.e. has a problem ...
I worked on XH558 long ago at RAF Waddington. It's predecessor XH557 was always going U/S ... we hated it!
tritium is cool ...
nice abundance of NATO straps ...
I like the snipe at the word "phenomenon" which always irritates me in Sigma publications ...
Espen B: How many lumens is this rated to output?
First question I was going to ask but you asked first!
The absolute worst is % ...
Piper Cub? Yummy ...
xpatUSA: Excellent! I was up in Prudhoe Bay for about 5 months and never saw one aurora!
I was doing commissioning work inside large window-less buildings 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week: spent next to no time outside :-(
Excellent! I was up in Prudhoe Bay for about 5 months and never saw one aurora!