SteveB wrote:
> 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?
Wimpy ones. When I was flying aerials, I used lenses close to a yard
long and eight inches in diameter.
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