Hi,
> I've just been out to see Concorde take off from Exeter
> Airport, quite an event in these parts :) It's a beautiful
> aircraft, very impressive taking off, so naturally I grabbed
> a camera. It called for long Zuikos, so I packed my two
> longest, the 70-150 zoom & the 200/f4. Mindful of recent
> tests, I left the OM1n behind, in favour of the OM4, with
> winder 2 attached. I found a good spot outside the airport
> fence, and got some shots of the plane just prior to take
> off. The counter showed 18, plenty left, so I took several
> more shots as it taxied to the runway. It stopped, and I
> took several more shots of it's rear, which looked good
> through the heat haze of the engines. Then I noticed the
> winder was making strange noises, I hadn't noticed this
> before because of the engine noise. The counter showed 25.
> I tried to move the rewind crank It didn't! I had run out
> of film & the plane was still on the ground!! DOH!!!
I know what you're thinking; "Did I take 36 shots or only 35?", but to tell
you the truth, in all the excitement I lost the count myself. But this being
the Olympus OM-4 the most versatile hand camera in the world, it could blow
the plane pics clean off. So, you just got to ask yourself one question;
"Did you get lucky?" - Well did you ?!? ;)))
Cheers,
"Dirty Olaf Callahan" ;)
PS: Yesterday Magnum Force was once again shown on the Dutch telly; being a
great classic movie with a nice overkill of police brutality and excessive
force, I just couldn't resist doing that little parody ;)
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