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Post by olroy2044 on Nov 9, 2007 20:59:44 GMT -5
Hi Bill: Just for you, some more old slides. These seem to look colder than they should. Maybe I need to adjust them some. Contaflex and Hi-Speed Ektachrome again. Check out the hair on the guy sitting on the wing This one was taken with my Mamiya 1000DTL. The only long lens I had back then was a Cambron f6.3 400mm. This must have been taken with that. Douglas A-26 Invader with two Sea Furies. Mamiya again, don't know what lens That A-26 was almost as fast as the fighters of the day. Enjoy, Roy
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Post by nikonbob on Nov 9, 2007 22:11:15 GMT -5
That A-26 was some machine. I understand that they literally flew the wings off them in Vietnam. The Sea Furies aren't too shabby either. Thanks for posting them.
Bob
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Post by davesworld on Nov 10, 2007 7:15:18 GMT -5
Great shots Roy! When were they taken? We don't get much of that sort of thing down here. Have you still got your Mamiya? Iv'e used a lot of cameras over the years but my best work has always been with the my Mamiya ZE-2. My wife says she will will bury me with it!, I agree, I want to take it to my next life! Dave
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Post by olroy2044 on Nov 10, 2007 13:48:46 GMT -5
Bob and Dave--Thanx for the kind words. The Contaflex pics were taken in '73 at the Watsonville Antique Fly-In and Air show, an annual event held at a small town on the seacoast of Monterey Bay, just south of Santa Cruz, Ca. I think (but not sure) that it is still being held. The Mamiya shots were taken in '75 ('74?) in Fresno, Ca at an event called "The Gathering of the Warbirds." That was the last year it was held in Fresno, moving north about 20 miles to Madera the next year. Unfortunately, I no longer have the old Mamiya. I wore it out, and had it rebuilt twice, then gave it to my camera tech for parts when I wore it out again. Now Ron tells me that it could have been fixed . Still have the old Cambron, tho! Working on a total wreck of a DTL 500 at this time. I've got the shutter working, and the speeds "sound" OK. Now comes the meter, then seals, bumper etc. The A-26 was indeed quite an airplane. IMO, it is to multi-engine aircraft what the '51 is to singles. (P-38 fans, don't shoot! ;D) It served in every conflict the U.S. was involved in from WWII thru Viet Nam, maybe longer for all I know. The designation was changed from A-26 to B-26, causing some confusion with the B-26 Marauder, a totally different airplane. Ol--still listening to every airplane that flies over--Roy
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Post by herron on Nov 10, 2007 16:02:29 GMT -5
Great shots Roy! When were they taken? We don't get much of that sort of thing down here. Have you still got your Mamiya? Iv'e used a lot of cameras over the years but my best work has always been with the my Mamiya ZE-2. My wife says she will will bury me with it!, I agree, I want to take it to my next life! Dave A man after my own heart! Look for me, will ya? I'll be the one in the "Mamiya Collector" sweatshirt!
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Post by John Parry on Nov 12, 2007 8:01:40 GMT -5
Ron & Dave
Oh No !! - you don't mean that there's going to be no respite, ever, for all eternity?? LOL
Regards - John
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Post by herron on Nov 13, 2007 12:27:21 GMT -5
Ron & Dave Oh No !! - you don't mean that there's going to be no respite, ever, for all eternity?? LOL Regards - John What? You wouldn't consider hearing about Mamiya 35mm cameras for all eternity something right out of Heaven?
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Post by kiev4a on Nov 13, 2007 12:41:21 GMT -5
Ron & Dave Oh No !! - you don't mean that there's going to be no respite, ever, for all eternity?? LOL Regards - John What? You wouldn't consider hearing about Mamiya 35mm cameras for all eternity something right out of Heaven? Ron: Is it true all Mamiya SNs begin with the numbers "666"?
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Post by casualcollector on Nov 13, 2007 17:04:01 GMT -5
Thanks, Roy! A-26, B-26? I get confused by that, too. More reading required. The Sea Fury! I never even knew there was such a thing until Sun-N-Fun last year. I came late to aviation. When I relocated to FL in '05, the first job involved electrical systems for homebuilts. Shortly after I graduated to building the Malibu family aircraft at Piper. I love seeing old pictures of these old birds. Keep up the good work! Here's a link to one of my Vermont buddies. He's been shooting planes for years. www.vermontel.net/~tomh/Photos.htm
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Post by olroy2044 on Nov 13, 2007 17:43:07 GMT -5
" Shortly after I graduated to building the Malibu family aircraft at Piper. I love seeing old pictures of these old birds. Keep up the good work! Here's a link to one of my Vermont buddies. He's been shooting planes for years."
A-h-h-h!! The Malibu! That was my dream plane for years! Thanks for the link to your friend's site. Great site and v-e-r-y nice pix! Roy
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Post by kiev4a on Nov 15, 2007 20:14:46 GMT -5
Speaking of vintage aircraft I was in Wally World's toy section the other day and they had a set featuring a Zero and a Corsair--very highly detailed--both with wingspans of about a foot. Also a P51 in the same scale as a single. They also had a cool detailed model of a F86 Sabre with a wingspan of at least 18 inches. They are fully assembled other than attaching the wings. Why didn't they have toys like that when I was a kid!! I'm tempted to buy an F86 anyway but I don't know where I would put it.
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Post by olroy2044 on Nov 16, 2007 12:15:49 GMT -5
I've seen those. They're pretty good. Roy
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Post by olroy2044 on Feb 16, 2009 17:05:10 GMT -5
Duped some more old Ektachromes. These were lying loose in a box taken out of storage. Raw dupes-haven't cleaned them up yet. No way to treat old photos! These are all over 30 years old Pushed to 400-Contaflex with 8x monocular Probably Mamiya 1000 DTL w/400mm "stovepipe" Spotted this old A-20 doing aerobatics over Clear Lake in N. Calif Unsure what the equipment was. Here's Eddie Andreini in the Super Stearman in Watsonville over 30 years ago--last seen at the Chico Air Fest '08, cutting a ribbon with his wheels--inverted!
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Post by casualcollector on Feb 16, 2009 17:55:23 GMT -5
Keep dredging 'em up, Roy. I love 'em.
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Post by PeterW on Feb 16, 2009 19:02:42 GMT -5
Roy, Your old Ektachromes are well worth digging out and saving. You really must get an image editing program to clean them up and, if necessary, adjust the colour balance.
Photoshop is, of course, the industry standard for image editing, but it's very expensive. However, Photoshop Elements will do all you want, but the latest version 7 is still quite a lot of money, about US$120 I believe.
However, Amazon, at least in the UK, have got some good deals going at the moment on older versions of Photoshop Elements and are offering Version 6 for around £20 GBP, that's about US $27 to 28 at the moment.
I'm running an old version of the full Photoshop, about 4 versions outdated, but I very seldom use anything in it for cleaning up and adjusting colour in photos that you can't find in older versions of Photoshop Elements. It's nice to have some of the latest 'one-click' facilities of later versions, and most of the added facilities are wonderful, but really for professional graphics designers. I've tried some of them on 14-day trial offers, but for what I do I couldn't see the justification for shelling out any more money. You can do almost the same thing in older versions, only it takes a few seconds longer
Don't know if Amazon in the US is offering the same sort of deals but at £20 Photoshop Elements version 6 is IMHO a good buy.
peterW
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