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Re: [OM] High Speeds and OM Sale/Chris/Doris/John+

Subject: Re: [OM] High Speeds and OM Sale/Chris/Doris/John+
From: The Family <fotolady@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:01:08 -0400
Thanks Chris, Doris, John and all for the feedback.

Ref. the shutter speeds, I too believe anything with a prop looks good with
a little rotation.  Yeah, helicopter blades freeze at 1/250th....suprised
me too.  Shot some at Cherry Point, NC in low light at 1/125 sec, and only
the rotor tips showed a sign of movement.  Ahh, the learning curve :)

Doris...people pictures at an air show eh?  Sounds like the day at a parade
in NYC when most of my shots were of the crowd.  The family thought I went
off the deep end but that changed when a hard look was taken at the faces
and colors.  These days I use a double mounting plate with a Sunpak flash
pointed toward the action and mount the XA toward the intersting part of
the crowd.  Looking at it from the crowds position it appears as a single
piece pointed toward the action.  Usually the self timer trips the shutter
but I have black-tapped a long cable release down the back of the 'dummy'
flash to trip it on demand.  Not a pretty sight but it will probably be
done again for New York Is Book Country streetfest next month, just before
the out west trip.

JOHN P.....yep the OM1xxx is the 'pick' for astrophotogrphy and the reason
I bought one.  That, and for an Alaskan trip that hasn't happened.  OOPS,
if I sell all the stuff after the out west trip, what will I use to make
multiple 8 minute exposures from Wilkerson pass at 0 deg. F?  The kids'
N*k*n EM's won't last that long at those temps and neither will the N70's
or N2000.  And the OMPC's (have 3 total in the family) haven't skipped a
beat....ever.

This is getting tough.  Maybe giving up the exotic moving situations and
keeping all the OM gear is the wisdom of the ages as a few other good folks
on the reflector have suggested.

CHRIS....Thanks for your pilots perspective.  When I worked for Keystone
Aeronautics and Avionics (Rockwell's op) the appreciation of "the lovely
lines of the machines" started and has never stopped.  Fortunatly we have
Dover AFB and its monthly (summer) open house activities and a nice Warbird
museum that opened in '96.  Side note: on the opening day of the museum, a
lower back condition kept me from even holding a camera.  My wife (the
owner of this 'photolady' url) shot roll after roll of static and flying
displays that are better than I would have done.  Angles and positions and
perspectives that I wouldn't have thought to take.  It is so nice to have
someone like her to share this hobby and this happens all the time.  Do you
still have the passion for things that fly, and for photographing them?

BTW, the high shutter speed addiction started after seeing the Great
Western Air Show at Grand Junction, CO (this year at Durango, CO Sept.
19-20).  The rain stopped as the show began and the water vapor caught with
the glistening sun over the shoulder and IR film provided a photo
experience that altered my view of air shows forever.  Now the goal is to
find a show where the humidity is high or where a storm has just passed.
Talk about perverted passions, although still legal.

Rambling as usual,  Jim in Delaware


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