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Subject: [OM] Re: new pics posted
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 07:46:15 +0000
Thanks, Tim.  I enjoyed a short tour.  The most interesting, for me,  
were your autobiographical set.  However, I think that the date- 
setting system is stuck in 1960 – unless you aged very swiftly ;-)

Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.net
homepage.mac.com/zuiko


On 4 Feb 2007, at 03:26, Tim Randles wrote:

> Just starting a big lot of editing, I rebuilt the pages at:
>
> http://timrandles.fotopic.net/
>
> Lots of pics for Egypt and Kenya coming up, I'll have top buy  
> webspace there I guess, I took 27 gigs of pics with the E500 w/2  
> lens kit, not all of them came out like I wanted, lots taken  
> through the windows of tour buses, lots were not in focus, and lots  
> were shaky, but I got some excellent shots, some intimate moments  
> of people, some fantastic animal shots, hey, I even shot some FILM!
>
> I really made this camera work, taking an average of 5 gigs a day  
> set at SHQ and HQ, some Raw and a couple TIFF...
>
> I used 2 brand new fully charged batteries a day, and it took an  
> average of 1 hour to extract the pics of the CF cards onto the  
> laptop every evening...I even used the FL36 flash unit I have on a  
> couple of evening shots... now I just need to organize and edit  
> them, something I am not very good at yet.. but taking this many  
> pics gained me a reputation amongst the tour group, and if they  
> thought that something was coming up, they would radio the game  
> driver and he would take me over to the areas to photo lions and  
> cheetahs and stuff... ( I guess packing the monopod and camera made  
> me look real "professional")
>
> The drivers were blown away by the 3frames a second feature, and I  
> got some terrific movement shots of girraffes..
>
> hell of a trip and OMG!!... my wife wants to buy a farm in Kenya,  
> so we have a place to retire to..no more cold winters she says..  
> time to get serious about retirement planning, and this includes  
> her farm someplace warm so she can garden all year round... ( I'm  
> thrilled with her idea!!!)
>


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