Voice from the Noise: Tech Stuff

700 On the Move

Vs-31 CAG Aircraft 700 is shot down the cat of the USS GW Washington, circa 2006. VS-31's final deployment before being decommissioned was onboard the USS Washington. The NG on the tail is the give away. Airwings attached to West coast aircraft Carriers are assigned the lead nemonic of "N" while those on the Atlantic are given "A". The 700 or double nuts aircraft in each aircraft is typically given special paint over and above that customary for a squadron aircraft and is usually offered to the Air Wing Commander. This aircraft is sporting an AWW-13 Weapons Data Link pod on that starboard wing pylon. This pod us used to relay video from an inflight missile (Maverick or SLAM-ER) or controls from the aircraft to the missile. There is an actual joystick at the Co-Pilot station that allows the operator at that station to actually fly the missle while it is in flight.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Tech Stuff – Camera WOW

Canon has come out with a new camera in its EOS digital SLR line, the EOS 7D. It has bells and whistles a plenty. Here are a few:

An 18 megapixel CMOS sensor
ISO range from 100 to 6400 but wait, this is expandable to 12,800 (Wow, I don't even know what to do with that, but I'd like to try)
A 19-point cross-type AF Spot system
Continuous single frame shooting at 8 fps with spot AF
Dual processors for fast image processing
A very large view screen that shows 100% of the frame with its own magnification feature

There are many others, go here for a complete look at this new bit of Tech: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0909/09090105canoneos7d.asp

I once did a lot of SLR photography, and I hope to revive that old hobby. In the day it was always a Hasselblad camera that I had longed for, but my Argus and the Yashakia did great work for me. If money was no option this new Canon might be the way to go. I can't imagine what this thing is going to cost. But, the good news, it makes all those other Canon EOS cameras cheaper!!!

BT: Jimmy T sends.

3 comments:

virgil xenophon said...: I am REALLY a fossil when it comes to photography. It's only been recently I went digital--still used my Cannon SLR that I bought at the China Fleet Store in Hong Kong back in 68. Got a Cannon Rebel as I'm really not THAT serious a photographer, plus a smaller Minolta pocket number. Also replaced my old trusty Yashika Super-8 years ago with a top-of line Cannon vid. camera but I mistakenly went for top end optics before Cannon switched (they were behind everyone in this trend) to the swivel flat panel view-finder so I'm stuck with the pain in the you know what very limiting barrel view-finder even tho everything else is top-rate.

(BTW--go back & check your post about your home and Penn., left a short post you might find informative from historical stand-point); September 4, 2009 at 7:12 AM
Buck said...: I'm a Canon kinda guy... owning a Rebel XT (and a couple of Canon lenses for it) and a Powershot G5. This 7D will be out of my price range... fer sure... but that doesn't mean I can't/won't/don't lust after it. Ya gotta have dreams, yanno?; September 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM
alison said...: Cool; September 6, 2009 at 1:55 PM