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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 24, 2004
Description:
My FIRST favorite seaplane, a PBY, flying by at the Chesterfield county Airport (VA) airshow.
Also performing were:
P-40
Spitfire
Hawker Hurricane
Corsair
B-25
T-28 (6 of them)
Chrisman Eagle (2, performing together)
Extra 300 (Patty Wagstaff)
J3 Cub ('Flying Farmer')
And present but not performing:
Lockheed Lodestar
UH-1 and several other helicopters
Wright Flyer reconstruction--the one that was supposed to fly at Kill Devil Hills
And a bunch of other airplanes that I can't list now.
Date Taken:
Oct 24, 2004
Place Taken:
FCI
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
PBY_brightness_0076_q_k_x2.jpg - Photo HTML
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Medium - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZYNK0000m">
Thumbnail - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZYNK0000s">
Category:
23, Max Pix
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Dan Nickens - Oct 24,2004
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Very nice sight, Don. I'm always amazed at what you can do with that credit card size camera.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 24,2004
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The camera is a Minolta Dimage Xg. It's about the size of a deck of cards, has an internal 3:1 optical zoom, 3.2 megapixels, also makes lo-res videos at 15 and 30 fps as long as the SD card will accept. I got it after using the Dimage X (2.0 MP and 35 secs max video) for a couple of years. Both are only mediocre cameras, but they's so small and light that I really do carry one in my pocket a lot of the time--which I'd never do with the big camera I'd really like to have. The only real disadvantages are that there's a slight loss of brightness at the corners of a frame. You notice it in a full-frame shot of blue sky, for example, but not much in most shots. And that it's so light that you have to watch out for shake in low light.<P>The 3:1 zoom is hardly better than a 2:1 telephoto--about like a 120 mm on a 35 SLR, I think. <P>The picture above is cropped from wider shot (at full zoom) and then doubled in dimensions. Here's a 1/10 size version of the original frame:<P><img src="inline/20107-PICT0076_1_10th.jpg" alt="PICT0076_1-10th"><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Don Maxwell - Aug 08,2006
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Frank Gracy has been trying to make himself invisible here--so I'll say that my reply was to his question, 'Don, does that camera of yours have a telephoto lens?' I'm sure he was suggesting, not questioning, and of course I had wished for a longer lens on the little camera, especially for a shot like this. Frank has made lots of good suggestions about photography and airplanes on this and other SeaRey websites.<br /><br />That little camera has disappeared, too. Took the deep six last November.
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