This was a camera my wife tried to talk me out of selling. Images like this remind me she was right.
Rocket Boys is a terrific book, and you've just reminded me to re-read it.My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica. which recorded 640x480 images on a 1.44MB floppy. The first image shows Homer Hickam of "The Rocket Boys" fame and his band of cohorts signing memorabilia at the Coalwood Rocket Festival in Coalwood, WV on October 7, 2000. Coalwood is the hometown of the Rocket Boys, and for years there was an annual festival honoring the Rocket Boys. It was very cold the day I went, and I still had to wait in line several hours to meet the gang. The second image shows another of the gang, Roy Lee, autographing my scale version of the Auk XXXI "Miss Riley" rocket featured in the climactic scene from the movie "October Sky".
I think I had read that somewhere.Rocket Boys is a terrific book, and you've just reminded me to re-read it.
Did you know that the title of the movie (October Sky) is an exact anagram of the title of the book (Rocket Boys) ?
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Ahhhhh, GAS. I still have the Pentax Red Dot Sight and loupe from my days playing with manual lenses on the Q. I thought I still had a K-Q adapter bouncing around in a drawer, but it seems to have gone AWOL.I have a Q to K mount adaptor with which I can attached the old M50 f4 macro to the Q. This makes it about a 275 mme. Here's a quarter for your thoughts.View attachment 250574
I was a huge fan of model rockets as a boy. I built them is the extensive cellar of the three-decker house where I grew up. My Aunt and Uncle owned the house and lived o the first floor, with us on the second. My uncle had a huge collections of tools and a big work bench where I built rockets and planes. Of course, we couldn't launch them in a residential neighborhood so we have to plan days when we could go to vocational high school to fire them off. Obviously, this triggered a bunch of fond memories.My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica. which recorded 640x480 images on a 1.44MB floppy. The first image shows Homer Hickam of "The Rocket Boys" fame and his band of cohorts signing memorabilia at the Coalwood Rocket Festival in Coalwood, WV on October 7, 2000. Coalwood is the hometown of the Rocket Boys, and for years there was an annual festival honoring the Rocket Boys. It was very cold the day I went, and I still had to wait in line several hours to meet the gang. The second image shows another of the gang, Roy Lee, autographing my scale version of the Auk XXXI "Miss Riley" rocket featured in the climactic scene from the movie "October Sky". My version, at around 2 feet long, can reach around 3,000 feet in altitude, although I never launched it again after they all autographed it. The real Auk XXXI, which was their final launch, stood five feet high and reached an altitude of 4 miles.
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The Q is surprisingly effective in MF with the peaking on.Ahhhhh, GAS. I still have the Pentax Red Dot Sight and loupe from my days playing with manual lenses on the Q. I thought I still had a K-Q adapter bouncing around in a drawer, but it seems to have gone AWOL.
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So that's what you look like.A reflective selfie from 2011 with the S95
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That is what I looked like ten years ago. Drove to College Station, TX to give a lecture at the Texas A&M School of Architecture. Found this abandoned breakfast spot.So that's what you look like.