dadiOH wrote:
> 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.
LOL.
Hey girls.
Look at the size of my lens.
Woof ! ! !
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