>>     Some great photos from Fleet Week in San Francisco with an FA-18
    >> doing a
    >>     transonic pass below the mast height of sailboats on the
    >> water.The whole
    >>     bunch can be seen at: http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/
   <http://home.comcast.net/%7Ebzee1a/> Lots of super
    >>     PIX!
    >>
    >>     Doc Custer
    >>     Retired Software Engineer and sometime Audiologist
    >>
    >>
    >> Those pics are awesome I just can't figure out why some people
   had their
    >> backs to the jet on its flyby how could you not be looking at it
   zooom
    >> by your nose???
    >> Erick
    >>
    >> Telephoto lens magic. Those houses in the back ground are miles away
    >> from the camera. It just happened to be a real clear day.
    >> Note the scale on the lower left of the map.
    >> Paul Lamar
    >
    >
    > I shot for several news papers, including the nation's oldest
    > continuously ran paper, and the photos look authentic to me.
    >
    > -dave
    >
    > Me too.
    >
    > What do you estimate the focal length of the lens that was used Dave?
    > Paul Lamar

   Looks to me like my favorite lens - a 200mm F2.5 on a digital body for
   an effective F/L of 300mm. It could be a 300mm F3.5 or so, giving about
   450mm, but not longer. The resolution looks too good for a zoom or
   longer. Also, it has image stabilization. My 10m body has it in the body
   rather than the lens so I can use my 500mm F4.5 glass lens (non-mirror)
   , but most of the other 10m SLR's have it in the lens.
   -dave


   I was curious. Thanks Dave.

   Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


"All shots taken w/ a Nikon D50 w/ Nikkor 70-300mm 1: 4-5.6G lens;
center spot metering and focus, jets shot w/ shutter priority at 1/2000sec."


Matt-


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