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It's all downhill from here...
It just occurred to me, November is only about ten weeks away.
From a season past...Alta with a 50" base, November 10th, 2000: http://www.xmission.com/~hound/astro...-10-00_002.htm We can only hope. -Astro |
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Feel free to joins us in Europe in week 42 (october). We will all be going
to Hintertux, Soelden, Kaprun ..., whatever to kick the season off. Oh, and don't forget Worldcup opening in week 43 (25/26 oct. GS). http://www.fis-ski.com/calendar/worl...lendars2003200 4.pdf "AstroPax" skrev i en meddelelse ... It just occurred to me, November is only about ten weeks away. From a season past...Alta with a 50" base, November 10th, 2000: http://www.xmission.com/~hound/astro...-10-00_002.htm We can only hope. -Astro |
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On 24 Aug 2003 13:20:01 GMT, "Let Mikey Ski It!"
wrote: Astro, my credit card is singing. One of those 70-200's is on its way to me! :0 Cool. Now all we need is one of those Tele-converters for our Tele-photo lenses so we can take nice 300mm+ Tele-photoed pics. Notice how I keep it on-topic by using the term "Tele", three times. -Astro |
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AstroPax wrote in message . ..
On 24 Aug 2003 13:20:01 GMT, "Let Mikey Ski It!" wrote: Astro, my credit card is singing. One of those 70-200's is on its way to me! :0 Cool. Now all we need is one of those Tele-converters for our Tele-photo lenses so we can take nice 300mm+ Tele-photoed pics. Notice how I keep it on-topic by using the term "Tele", three times. -Astro That's gotta be a big hunk of glass to haul around. I have an old (probably predates you guys) Nikkor 300mm F4.5 I used to drag about. Weighs almost as much as my bag with three Nikon bodies and half a dozen shorter, more useable lenses. The strap on the leather box for the 300 finally broke, I think, so I quit carrying it as a routine. Almost never had much use for it. Pretty hard to zero in on a subject using it hand-held. |
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Kneale Brownson wrote:
AstroPax wrote in message . .. After all, is it not the length of your skis and camera lenses that determine how good you are at skiing and/or photography? I don't subscribe to those thoughts. Some of my neatest pix (personal choice, of course) have been shot through the Fisheye and 28 mm lenses. I've never skied better, and my ski length has shrunk from 207 cm to 181. I did like "sneaking up" on folks with the 300, though. |
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AstroPax wrote:
Now all we need is one of those Tele-converters for our Tele-photo lenses so we can take nice 300mm+ Tele-photoed pics. Yes. The 1.4 tele is supposed to work with an unprecedented no degradation in picture quality and the 2.0 is supposed to work just fine. The lens came last night. Schwing! Awesome. It is a pretty hefty lens but should be great for ski shooting. In case you have not seen this, here is the best review of the lens with some insightful information on the VR settings and on how those teleconverters work with it: http://www.bythom.com/70200VRlens.htm (I have Thom's D100 e-book) One thing I am now looking for is another small pack for this lens+camera for skiing. I normally carry the camera in a small waist pack that I then put in my DaKine Chute pack. Either I spin my pack around and get the camera out of the pack(s), or I take the small pack out and clip it around my waist temporarily if I am going to do a series of shots to save some time. This new setup is too big to use with my current waist pack but I would like to have something similar. Maybe some sort of tube pack that would hook to the Chute shoulder strap. Any thoughts? I need to be able to get the camera out quickly as buddies like Bruno have learned to pop up fast after a fall and I have to be extra quick (but there are numerous such opportunities). Plus, there always needs to be something on the gear want list (besides a teleconverter. And an extension tube for shooting macro with it. And, ... ). Notice how I keep it on-topic by using the term "Tele", three times. Tele tele tele. And, I said "schwing". Mike... -- Littleton, Colorado (reply to msaemisch at yahoo dot com) See my ski photography at: http://PowderDay.us Carpe powder-diem |
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On 28 Aug 2003 22:20:01 GMT, (Kneale Brownson)
wrote: my ski length has shrunk from 207 cm to 181. Come to think of it, my skis seem to be getting x number of cm's shorter each year, while at the same time my camera lenses seem to be getting x number of mm's longer each year. So, based upon the rate of reduction in ski length I've been experiencing each year, I figure that sometime around 2006 I should be skiing on 180's, and shooting with a 600mm. -Astro --- x-Vertigo http://www.xmission.com/~hound/astro/02-03/index.htm --- |
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In om, Kneale
Brownson typed: AstroPax wrote in message . .. After all, is it not the length of your skis and camera lenses that determine how good you are at skiing and/or photography? I don't subscribe to those thoughts. Some of my neatest pix (personal choice, of course) have been shot through the Fisheye and 28 mm lenses. I've never skied better, and my ski length has shrunk from 207 cm to 181. I did like "sneaking up" on folks with the 300, though. I've never skied better, and my ski length has shrunk from 203 cm to 168. but this is mainly due to slalom racing and the cost of skis! anyone got any cheap 171 or 181 1080's? I think I'd worry if I was carrying $1700 worth of lense around. -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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"MoonMan" wrote in
: (schnipp) -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! Hey Moon, Not all Uphill is BAD. Without uphill there couldn't be downhill. I once had a science fiction dream wherein the most wonderful destination resort in the universe was an Earth satellite that was situated, furnished and rotated so that there was endless downhill skiing. The only reason to stop was that you were tired. I had it all worked out so that if you turned in one direction you skied away from the lodge and if you skied in the other direction you skied toward it. I had actually worked out some (pseudo) physics so that it worked, but since the invention of the holo-deck, the satellite has since gone into a state of abject disrepair. BTW, don't ask me what the physics were, I simply don't remember. R(back in the days when I read a lot of SciFi)W |
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