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May 16th, 2007, 15:45
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: People's Republic of Boulder
Posts: 2,233
|  Got my new camera! Finally sold enough junk (I mean nice items) on Craigslist to get my Nikon D40x!! Here are my first few pics... left to right... American 757 overhead at FL380 and me trying to get artsy  |
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May 16th, 2007, 16:02
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| Newbie  Join Date: May 2007 Location: Las Vegas
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|  Re: Got my new camera! Nice! |
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May 16th, 2007, 16:48
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Paradise:)
Posts: 4,495
   | Re: Got my new camera! Nice pictures Have fun with the camera.
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May 16th, 2007, 16:58
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Boca Raton
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| Re: Got my new camera! Cool! The second one looks awesome! |
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May 16th, 2007, 19:20
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Vero Beach, Florida
Posts: 1,155
| Re: Got my new camera! Quote:
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May 16th, 2007, 19:56
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: People's Republic of Boulder
Posts: 2,233
| Re: Got my new camera! Thanks for the props! (no pun intended) I hope one day to exhibit a sliver of the talent of one Mr. Tim Samples (timbuff10) |
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May 18th, 2007, 10:07
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Left Seat
Posts: 5,521
| Re: Got my new camera! Wow... you guys get your tail number for the whole trip and the number of passengers? That's pretty good. We don't know if we are swapping until the inbound leg mostly. |
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May 18th, 2007, 11:35
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: People's Republic of Boulder
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| Re: Got my new camera! Yeah, it is planned but it is rare that it holds up through day 2. Usually day one is good to go though. Day 2 on - the guessing game begins Do you guys have info on your release that says what the aircraft is doing next? Ours always says for example - "Aircraft 770SK turns to 6789 ORD - SGF at 17:15 local" Forgot to add: Once in a great while I will make a 3 day trip with the planned tail numbers and no surprise swaps. Its niiiiiice! Last edited by bike21; May 18th, 2007 at 11:37. Reason: forgot... |
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May 18th, 2007, 11:38
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| Old Skool Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Left Seat
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| Re: Got my new camera! Nope. The only way we know where the plane is going next is to call ops in range and they will tell us. Even then, when you call ramp up and tell them what gate you are going to, often times they tell you you are wrong and you are going to a different gate and the plane is going somewhere else. |
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May 18th, 2007, 11:42
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: People's Republic of Boulder
Posts: 2,233
| Re: Got my new camera! Ahh bummer. Maybe that could be a project to get that swap info listed on your releases? Easy for the company to do and obviously tons easier on you guys. |
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May 19th, 2007, 11:55
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posts: 1,164
| Re: Got my new camera! Nice job on the artsy one. I have to ask ... why'd you choose the D40x? Not knocking the choice. I'm in the market for a D-SLR and haven't decided which one to buy.
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May 19th, 2007, 14:15
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| Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: People's Republic of Boulder
Posts: 2,233
| Re: Got my new camera! Quote:
The D40x has the smallest body for an SLR at this time. So I get the most compact body for throwing it in my flight bag or Camelbak (when on the bike) - that way it doesn't hog up all the space. Plus it is still 10MP, so I didn't sacrifice any quality there. There was nice write up on it in this months Popular Photography magazine. Almost went for the Rebel XTi, but one of my buddies shoots with Nikon so he will be able to help me out a ton. And he gave me a free lens!!  | |
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