Posted by The Older Gentleman on August 10, 2010, 2:08 pm
> >Really? OK.
>
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I do find it slightly odd that you have a national park, but you must
stay on the road, and not enjoy it.
>
> >* but then I suppose you only get one chance before the rider's gone
>
> Exactly.
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>
> If I wanted artistic, I'd set somebody up and get that. I don't care
enough to
> pay $6 per picture for any of these, so the proofs are all I'll ever see.
Oh, at six bucks a picture, who GAF? I was imagining some optimist
charging 20-30.
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>
> >Itr's not hard to freeze spokes at any speed if you use a fast enough
> >shutter speed.
>
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>
> I have some pictures I shot when I was working as a guard at Laguna Seca
back in
> 1980. Almost everything on the track was a two stroke and using 1/1000
was not
> enough to freeze the spokes of the guys coming out of the hairpin and carrying
> the front wheel down the long straight. I was using a Canon AE-1
(pre-program),
> that was the fastest speed I had.
Hey! I used one of those, in another job. Nice camera, but not nice
enough to woo me from my Nikon fetish.
Trouble is, 1/1000 isn't *that* fast on today's kit. Let's see. Standard
bright sunny day, F8, 100ASA film (oh, all right, digi-boys, ISO
setting), 1/125 for a nice image.
Whop the ISO up three stops equivalent to ISO800. That gets you your
1/1000 of a second, and you've still got loads of DOF on F8. I think my
D300S will get to ISO1600 before the images get even slightly 'noisy'.
Maybe 3200. Haven't had it long enough to try.
Amazing what modern kit will do. I still keep my film Nikon, mind you.
> There were some people there from Honda of Japan. It was rumored they had a
> couple of bikes with square pistons. Everything was kept behind tarps and
even
> though I was guarding the pits that day, I never got a glimpse of anything but
> the bikes as they hit the track. Everything in their pit stall was carefully
> screened off. Neither bike made a full lap before the engine seized.
>
> They packed everything up and left. Later we realized what we had actually
> witnessed but at the time we didn't have a clue. Everything I find in print
> says they started working on these engines in 81, but I beg to differ.
Now *that* is interesting. I believe you.
--
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Posted by Datesfat Chicks on August 9, 2010, 3:07 pm
> Once past the checkpoint I made some good time until I came around a
> curve to see five sets of flashing red and blue lights blocking the
> road and a pair of shame-faced guys in handcuffs whose open car trunk
> was full of brown-paper-wrapped packages of *something* interesting.
> In fact, it must have been *very* interesting, as the cops also had a
> light plane circling around the scene. (Probably Border Patrol again.)
It seems to me that there must be a better way of running drugs than putting
the stuff in your car and driving. You do SERIOUS time for that stuff.
But I guess nearly everything has been tried ... light aircraft, heavier
aircraft, homemade submarines, etc., and there are countermeasures to nearly
every one of those.
I feel that the field is ripe for the entry of inexpensive GPS-guided
drones.
DF
Posted by ? on August 9, 2010, 9:01 pm
wrote:
> But I guess nearly everything has been tried ... light aircraft, heavier
> aircraft, homemade submarines, etc., and there are countermeasures to nearly
> every one of those.
Somebody tried using an ultralight to fly drugs across the border
about two years ago but he wound up destroying it in a field of
cabbages around El Centro as I recall...
Those flying lawn chairs won't take much abuse...
Posted by ? on August 9, 2010, 9:06 pm
wrote:
> It seems to me that there must be a better way of running drugs than putting
> the stuff in your car and driving. You do SERIOUS time for that stuff.
I was towing a U-Haul on I25 from Hot Springs, NM (it used to be
called "Truth or Consequences) to Albuquerque when I had to stop for a
DEA narcotics check.
They had a Pinto pulled over and there were 25 paper wrapped parcels
of marijuana scattered around the vehicle.
However, the cops weren't the least bit interested in my U-Haul
trailer, I could have had 1000 kilos of weed in it for all they knew.
But I also had a white cat named Pixie sitting on my shoulder as I
drove.
That probably through them off my scent...
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