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Offline howie1a

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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2008, 06:58:23 AM »
I gone to digital cameras I never thought I would give up 35mm back in the 60's I had a dark room with 2 enlargers as well as a 4x5 graflex and did some weddings as well as part time news photopraphy, lots of fun.howie
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Re: Photography??
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2008, 12:37:32 PM »
Sounds like you're more into photography than myself.  I've shot maybe 3 or 4 weddings and tons of beauty pageants that my lil girl has been in.  Which digital camera are you currently using and what would be your choice if you had the money to buy a new one?

I'm currently using a Panasonic FZ50.  Not bad a camera, easy to use but ISO above 200 is practically useless.  I may go DSLR next time to fix that issue... SAVE UP!!!
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Re: Photography??
« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2008, 02:21:24 PM »
I've had a bunch of cannon elphs I really love the size of them and they take great pictures , I got into the cannons when I bought a elph with a underwater houseing for diving it ended up being better than the Nikon I had and I've had a lot of elphs since ,but right now I have a Panasonic Lumix with a 10x optical zoom and it has a leica lenses , It's a lot smaller tha a cannon rebel which I think would be a better camera but I don't want to carry a big camera around If the cannon elph came in a 10 x optical zoom I would buy it. The pictures I have been putting on china & shop gate were taken with my Lumix I use a resizer prigram to make the res. smaller to be able to put them on the GTA site. I also do some ebay mostly dive gear. ai've got some great picturies from bush gardens of animals some real long distance off their train and came out very good. I did go to school in NYC back in 1960 for photography ,I went nights after work from NJ the school was NYI of photography. acrossed from the empire state building. It never worked out to be my career. I ended up the same as my dad and grandfather as a master carpenter and cabinet maker, not a bad career not great money wise but very rewarding work.
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CURRENT HERD ,, Baikal pistol M53 in 177 ,,crossman pistol 357 -177cal. ,,Bam 30 -22 cal,,  RWS 320 cal 177 custom walnut  stock,,QB2078 custom stock walnut cal177,,   QB2078 custom walnut stock  22 cal,,B7 custom stock cal 177 ,, B12 custom stock cal 177,,B16 from shadow 177 cal,,<< ALL THE REST OF MY  RIFLES FROM \"\"MIKE M. Flying Dragon Air Rifles \"\" Super nice.

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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2008, 04:42:49 PM »
I'm also into amateur photography.  Have several point-n-shoots, a Digital Rebel, Olympus 35mm and other such nonsense.

Just recently won 1st and 2nd place in a "Most Realistic Screenshot" contest sponsored by Knife Edge Software, an Radio Controlled Aircraft Simulator program, that is the nearest thing to being "live" that you can get right now; it is called G4.  First two screenshots in link, are mine.  The first was extremely hard as low knife edge flight had to be taken with a snapshot button, while all other fingers were doing busy work with the transmitter.

RC aircraft is my second love, been flying those about 20 years...

http://www.knifeedge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=106028#post106028

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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #34 on: February 29, 2008, 12:17:10 AM »
I so wanted to see these shots but apparently you have to be a member of the forum in order to be able to see them.
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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #35 on: February 29, 2008, 12:54:40 AM »
Whatchu flying r1derbike?

I've got a kitbashed AAMCO S-ray .25 size 3 channel trainer, an OS 46AX powered Dynaflite P51-D Mustang, a Novell .061 powered Herr Aquastar flying boat and a Byron Originals Pipe Dream gasser with bomb drop.

Started flying RC 3 years ago.  What is it with me and addicting hobbies?

J
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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2008, 01:57:58 AM »
Shots 5 and 9 (low-res shots so they would fit on photobucket) won 1st and second.

Look at my RC Aircraft subfolders on the left sidebar, and you'll see most of my smaller electric fleet.

My large scale birds I'll need to stage a shot or so when the wx gets warmer.  They are too big to mess with right now...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v402/r1derbike/RC%20Aircraft%20-%20RealFlight%20G4%20Simulator/

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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #37 on: February 29, 2008, 02:33:49 AM »
Not much altitude left on that knife edge!  Nice!

Who owns the 2 full scale RC bipes?

Nice collection you got there!

J
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RE: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #38 on: February 29, 2008, 01:50:36 PM »
I have turned my backyard into a nature preserve. I have 4 ponds and about 20 turtles which some of them I have hatched and raised myself. I keep and breed Russian and Hermans Tortoises. I also keep and breed box turtles, but the pond turtles are the ones that have the run of my ~8000sqft backyard.
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Re: Other hobbies and interests??
« Reply #39 on: February 29, 2008, 02:53:15 PM »
Jason, the picture of the red and white bipes are Sean Tucker (acting like he is flying Bill Hempel's 1/2 scale *YES! HALF SCALE* RC Pitts Challenger), with Bill Hempel off-camera actually flying the RC Challenger.  Sean's full-scale Oracle Challenger is behind him.

The picture of Bill Hempel *acting* like he is flying the red bipe, is actually Sean Tucker flying in his Oracle, making a low pass right by him.

Both these guys are nuts...certifiable.

Charles
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