"SteveB" <deserttraveler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:6s6i75-l3j.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Yesterday afternoon, I took a different route to get up on the freeway
in
> Las Vegas. Next to Nellis AFB, there were three photographers taking
> pictures. What I'm going to describe was a fast view from driving by at
> 55 mph.
>
> The first two cameras were definitely black. They had lenses that
looked
> about eighteen inches long, and four to six inches wide at the end. One
> fellow had just snapped a photo of five Thunderbirds coming in
formation,
> and he lowered the camera as though it were very heavy. The last had a
> camera I didn't see, as I saw the lens mostly. It was very light grey
> color with about three rings on it, black, IIRC.
>
> The jets were not high, as they were on landing approach pattern. I'm
> amazed that they using such large lenses, but may have been using them
at
> a smaller magnification.
>
> What sort of lenses fit that description?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
Trick question?
Possibly a black Nikon camera with a 500mm telephoto lens? The other was
likely a Canon lens.
Do I get a prize?
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