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Panther_99FS
September 19th, 2009, 20:46
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Kiwikat
September 19th, 2009, 21:07
I'm surprised you didn't make her your avatar Panther! :173go1:

Anyone carrying a lens that big has got to be compensating for something... :S

tigisfat
September 19th, 2009, 21:15
Oh my god, I think I know her. :icon_lol:


The older I get, the more 'it's a small Air Force' moments I have.

Panther_99FS
September 19th, 2009, 21:22
The older I get, the more 'it's a small Air Force' moments I have.

This is why they say "don't burn your bridges"....a few personal cases in point...

- The CMSgt I work with now was one of first bosses 20yrs ago....
- My last Command CMSgt was my old MTI....
- One of our squadron commanders was an EWO in my previous unit
- Another of our squadron's superintendent was a guy I was deployed with in 1992..
- Yet another squadron superintendent was a guy I knew in my previous squadron...
- A pilot I knew in my previous squadron is now commander of one of our school houses..

And the list goes on....

Panther_99FS
September 19th, 2009, 21:36
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tigisfat
September 19th, 2009, 22:16
This is why they say "don't burn your bridges"....a few personal cases in point...

- The CMSgt I work with now was one of first bosses 20yrs ago....
- My last Command CMSgt was my old MTI....
- One of our squadron commanders was an EWO in my previous unit
- Another of our squadron's superintendent was a guy I was deployed with in 1992..
- Yet another squadron superintendent was a guy I knew in my previous squadron...
- A pilot I knew in my previous squadron is now commander of one of our school houses..

And the list goes on....


My job was locked in, meaning I couldn't go anywhere but here because they decided to keep experience in house. I joined to fly around in the air mobility world, and here I am stuck for nine years on one bomber in one place. At least I'm part of a very small group of people that REALLY know about this jet.

Even after nine years at one base I still run across people I know everywhere around the USAF.

In about two months I go on terminal leave. There's something about being part of one of the AF's hardest jobs but with locked doors and oppurtunities that makes me want to go fly on the outside....so I am.

luckydog
September 19th, 2009, 23:01
Pretty lady.........but hand-holding a lens that large = BS !!! Give me a break !!! Even a monopod would be borderline...

kilo delta
September 20th, 2009, 03:48
Nikon....she has great taste! :bump:

Cazzie
September 20th, 2009, 04:51
I got a wife and she's too young for me, but I'll take the camera and lens! :icon_lol:

Agreed LD, posed shots, can't really be using a lens that big for a hand-held shot.

Caz

Toastmaker
September 20th, 2009, 05:02
Wow ! She has a big one. . .

Is that 400mm ?

jmig
September 20th, 2009, 06:02
Camera? What camera?

panther, I don't know what the USAF is doing these days but, in my day females didn't look like those two.

Daveroo
September 20th, 2009, 07:33
i was just at the California capitol airshow at mather airport ,i saw a young good looking female airman with a camera just like this one being used..it was also handheld and she was moving very slowly..but still gettin pics,thunderbird show...

kilo delta
September 20th, 2009, 07:37
Wow ! She has a big one. . .

Is that 400mm ?

Camera: Nikon D2Xs

Lens: Nikon Nikkor AF-S 600/4D II ( on the DX body that's equivalent to 900mm!!)

Toastmaker
September 20th, 2009, 07:43
Thanks KD. That would make a ripe surveillance rig. . . !

Snuffy
September 20th, 2009, 07:50
They appear to be the same shooter P.

Or does the Thunderbirds issue the same watch and diamond rings to all their recruits?

kilo delta
September 20th, 2009, 08:05
Thanks KD. That would make a ripe surveillance rig. . . !


True.....


..it'd be perfect for keeping tabs on the crew of the International Space Station :icon_lol:

Panther_99FS
September 20th, 2009, 08:05
Pretty lady.........but hand-holding a lens that large = BS !!! Give me a break !!! Even a monopod would be borderline...


I got a wife and she's too young for me, but I'll take the camera and lens! :icon_lol:

Agreed LD, posed shots, can't really be using a lens that big for a hand-held shot.

Caz

I know it's difficult for you 2 to swallow but...

They're not posed pictures....(and Toast, 2 different photographers did take them)...

Althought T-Birds now have a different official photographer.....

Trans_23
September 20th, 2009, 11:24
Another example of our tax dollars at work. With that lense I imagine she can get a shot of a pimple on the pilots neck at 20,000 feet.

Cazzie
September 20th, 2009, 13:18
I know it's difficult for you 2 to swallow but...

They're not posed pictures....(and Toast, 2 different photographers did take them)...

Althought T-Birds now have a different official photographer.....


In truth Panther, I keep forgetting how much lighter today's digital cameras and lens are. I figured that was close to a 1000-mm telephoto lens and old heavy 1000-mm lens were a load. I know, I toted enough of them around large speedways for 7 years! Had to use a monopod too, no way I could hold and steady that large a lens in those days.

Caz

Panther_99FS
September 20th, 2009, 13:21
:icon_lol:....

Don't get me wrong Caz it's still a good lift...the lens is 10lbs & some change & the body is 2lbs & some change....

But she did it all by herself....:mixedsmi:

liam643
September 21st, 2009, 00:39
HOLY CRAP! :isadizzy: Seriously people, how long does a camera lense need to be? The little lense on my Sony DSC-T70 does me just fine! why do you need a lense that big??