Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The new building has a much darker interior than I was expecting, and has a > variety of different temperature light sources, so be prepared for oddly > colored images. I found all of my shots fell between 1/60th and 1/30th @ > f/1.0 to f/1.4, all taken with 100 speed chrome film (Ektachrome E100GX, > Velvia 100F and Provia 100F). The 50 is a bit long for some of the > aircraft, but a 35 or 28 would likely be perfect. Remember that tripods are > *NOT* allowed, should you decide to go. > > http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ssgc/Noct/Dulles/index.htm Wow! Thank you very much, Mitch, for your report. I'm sending it along to my son who lives outside DC. This is a weird reaction but - they almost look like scale models in your photo and I don't know why I have that reaction. Maybe there's something about the light or the reflection off the canopies or something. Love the SR-71 sled photos. I vividly remember the first time I saw one. I was driving with the top down in the late morning on US 50 a bit of east of Sacramento when I heard these engines. I was north of (then) Mather AFB and saw the '71 climbing out after a touch and go. It did a loop around the field, shot another touch and go and then headed back toward Beale AFB. I literally pulled off to the side of the freeway to just WATCH. It was a typical late-spring California day: vivid blue sky, no clouds, the aircraft startlingly black against the sky. Truly it ranked right there with the first time I saw the Blue Angles (I was five and we watched from the roof of my uncles home just north of Vandalia - they were flying the beautiful swept-wing Grummans) and driving across North Dakota and having a B-52 pass overhead going about 500 MPH and about 200 feet off the ground. Good photos evoke reactions. Yours sure must be good! Oh - for those who can - check out the Air Force Museumm at Wright-Patterson outside of Dayton, Ohio. I vividly remember the B-70. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html