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[Gluefinger]

I'm not sure why you guys are so focused (ha!) on shutter speeds; I've never found anything above 1/500 to be necessary yet, and can even manage with 1/125 on cloudy days and/or with slow trains.

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

If you look at the pic of 8502 http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b274/trainboysd40/img032.jpg You'll notice that the sides are slightly more blurred than the centre, any explaination for this? Perhaps the lens is zooming or unzooming ever so slightly while I'm taking the picture?
And is ghosting a good thing in this case?

That's because of a low aperture (f/stop). It's called depth of field; the higher you go in f/stops, the less light gets into the camera, but also the more background is in focus.

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

then we saw Union Pacific train #118, which was being operated by the same engineer we saw running it around 3 weeks ago.

Eh, a UP train with a number symbol? CN Train 118 is an intermodal train and probably the one you mean.

[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gluefinger

I'm not sure why you guys are so focused (ha!) on shutter speeds; I've never found anything above 1/500 to be necessary yet, and can even manage with 1/125 on cloudy days and/or with slow trains.

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

If you look at the pic of 8502 http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b274/trainboysd40/img032.jpg You'll notice that the sides are slightly more blurred than the centre, any explaination for this? Perhaps the lens is zooming or unzooming ever so slightly while I'm taking the picture?
And is ghosting a good thing in this case?

That's because of a low aperture (f/stop). It's called depth of field; the higher you go in f/stops, the less light gets into the camera, but also the more background is in focus.

No, I've already switched to a faster film to be able to get a smaller f stop and more depth of field, that's not the problem. Look at the locomotive. One side is crisp(ish) yet the other is blurred. That's about a foot of difference, definitely not enough to make the depth of field from f 5.64 to make that much of a difference. And you'll also note that the background is also less blurred in the centre, even though it is still way out of focus.
And shutter speeds are important! Without a slow shutter speed, you can't get really good depth of field, and many other things. With a higher shutter speed, you can handhold telephoto shots with a higher success rate.

[Anonymous]

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[Gluefinger]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

And shutter speeds are important! Without a slow shutter speed, you can't get really good depth of field, and many other things. With a higher shutter speed, you can handhold telephoto shots with a higher success rate.

Yes, I know they're important, but I don't care that my camera can go up to 1/4000 of a second. It's really not necessary; you can't judge a camera by its maximum shutter speed.

[wctransfer]

Hey guys.

Not in the best mood, as we have crappy power on the transfer, and this number here pretty much says from here on out everything will be CN. CN has 9 WC SD45s left in service, when the WC used to roster 111!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, i railfanned the BNSF, got a nice shot of a new ACe, and some other goodies. Then stopped by at New Brighton and shot one of 4 SD45s left on the WC system *the other 5 are on the NS*. Go lookin in my rrpicturearchive stuff, BNSF at Fridley, and New Brighton 5.

Alec

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by alexander13

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[trainboyH16-44]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gluefinger

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

And shutter speeds are important! Without a slow shutter speed, you can't get really good depth of field, and many other things. With a higher shutter speed, you can handhold telephoto shots with a higher success rate.

Yes, I know they're important, but I don't care that my camera can go up to 1/4000 of a second. It's really not necessary; you can't judge a camera by its maximum shutter speed.

Absolutely, you can't gauge how good a camera is just by shutter speed, f stop, etc, but they do factor in, as a great camera has great everything, although I really can't see more than 1/2500th of a second making much difference, unless you're handholding an 800mm lens..

QUOTE: Originally posted by RR RedneckMembers can openly make suggestions about virtually anything (exept for downsizing the forums) and request pretty much anything that they want.

He's just sore because so many people think that there are too many catagories, and he won't change it...in fact, he is always adding more...it's getting hard to navagate...

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gluefinger

I'm not sure why you guys are so focused (ha!) on shutter speeds; I've never found anything above 1/500 to be necessary yet, and can even manage with 1/125 on cloudy days and/or with slow trains.

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

If you look at the pic of 8502 http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b274/trainboysd40/img032.jpg You'll notice that the sides are slightly more blurred than the centre, any explaination for this? Perhaps the lens is zooming or unzooming ever so slightly while I'm taking the picture?
And is ghosting a good thing in this case?

That's because of a low aperture (f/stop). It's called depth of field; the higher you go in f/stops, the less light gets into the camera, but also the more background is in focus.

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

then we saw Union Pacific train #118, which was being operated by the same engineer we saw running it around 3 weeks ago.

Eh, a UP train with a number symbol? CN Train 118 is an intermodal train and probably the one you mean.

I believe I know intermodels from manifests. And thats how they id'd it on the radio.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gluefinger

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44

And shutter speeds are important! Without a slow shutter speed, you can't get really good depth of field, and many other things. With a higher shutter speed, you can handhold telephoto shots with a higher success rate.

Yes, I know they're important, but I don't care that my camera can go up to 1/4000 of a second. It's really not necessary; you can't judge a camera by its maximum shutter speed.

Absolutely, you can't gauge how good a camera is just by shutter speed, f stop, etc, but they do factor in, as a great camera has great everything, although I really can't see more than 1/2500th of a second making much difference, unless you're handholding an 800mm lens..

QUOTE: Originally posted by RR RedneckMembers can openly make suggestions about virtually anything (exept for downsizing the forums) and request pretty much anything that they want.

He's just sore because so many people think that there are too many catagories, and he won't change it...in fact, he is always adding more...it's getting hard to navagate...

Hard to navigate? If you want to talk about model trains, you go the forum on the appropriate(spelling) scale. If you want to talk about locomotives, you go the the appropriate forum. If you want to talk about a class one, you go to the appropriate forum, and so on and so on. What praytell is so hard about that.

[nssr9169]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

WEllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, James and I went railfanning today, and we saw:
THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN HIGHNOSE SD9 WE WERE ALL TALKING ABOUT!!!! (pics later) Then a BNSF GEVO at Allouez, then a CN train #340, with the trailing unit beaten to death wearing four or five different paint schemes at once...then we chased it as it was being operated by two volunteers at our museum, then we saw Union Pacific train #118, which was being operated by the same engineer we saw running it around 3 weeks ago. Then we saw a BNSF coal train with DPU FLOORED!! We raced them to Bolyston and the actually kept up with us!! At 55 MPH!!
Then we saw the new BNSF MP15DC repaint, and a secerly tagged BNSF GP30, and some yard power.
Then on the way back, we saw 3 DMIR SD38-2's backing onto a limestone train.
Then we heard another SD38-2 #206 coming into M&J JCT heading for Pokegama.
Well thats about it...
WAIT!!
We saw the Lake Superior and Mississippi (tourist line) 45 TONNER switching cars into a industry...ITS A TOURIST LOCOMOTIVE THOUGH........Maybe leased...
well thats about it..

I thought that the BNSF tore up the tracks to the LSM R.R. I guess the LSM R.R. is back to main taining them.......they couldn't afford the lease on the trackage so the librals at the Bn tor up da tracks........My guess that the LSM R.R. does the switching at mikes yard now and my guess is that it isn't leased because if they were that tight for power.....they probablly called on the LSRM's GP30.....NW5....SD18(even though it won't go above 15 mph).......or better yet PEVEY SW1!!!!!!![:p]

We should ask Tim @ the GCOR Class on the 13th..............................I know James Schultz and me are signed up ......R U Max??????

[nssr9169]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wctransfer

Hey guys.

Not in the best mood, as we have crappy power on the transfer, and this number here pretty much says from here on out everything will be CN. CN has 9 WC SD45s left in service, when the WC used to roster 111!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, i railfanned the BNSF, got a nice shot of a new ACe, and some other goodies. Then stopped by at New Brighton and shot one of 4 SD45s left on the WC system *the other 5 are on the NS*. Go lookin in my rrpicturearchive stuff, BNSF at Fridley, and New Brighton 5.

Alec

Don't remind me......................D*** librals ....no mor roar.[:(]

[ModelTrainLover]

hey guys how did some of your weekends go ??? if you would#8805;

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by nssr9169

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

WEllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, James and I went railfanning today, and we saw:
THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN HIGHNOSE SD9 WE WERE ALL TALKING ABOUT!!!! (pics later) Then a BNSF GEVO at Allouez, then a CN train #340, with the trailing unit beaten to death wearing four or five different paint schemes at once...then we chased it as it was being operated by two volunteers at our museum, then we saw Union Pacific train #118, which was being operated by the same engineer we saw running it around 3 weeks ago. Then we saw a BNSF coal train with DPU FLOORED!! We raced them to Bolyston and the actually kept up with us!! At 55 MPH!!
Then we saw the new BNSF MP15DC repaint, and a secerly tagged BNSF GP30, and some yard power.
Then on the way back, we saw 3 DMIR SD38-2's backing onto a limestone train.
Then we heard another SD38-2 #206 coming into M&J JCT heading for Pokegama.
Well thats about it...
WAIT!!
We saw the Lake Superior and Mississippi (tourist line) 45 TONNER switching cars into a industry...ITS A TOURIST LOCOMOTIVE THOUGH........Maybe leased...
well thats about it..

I thought that the BNSF tore up the tracks to the LSM R.R. I guess the LSM R.R. is back to main taining them.......they couldn't afford the lease on the trackage so the librals at the Bn tor up da tracks........My guess that the LSM R.R. does the switching at mikes yard now and my guess is that it isn't leased because if they were that tight for power.....they probablly called on the LSRM's GP30.....NW5....SD18(even though it won't go above 15 mph).......or better yet PEVEY SW1!!!!!!![:p]

We should ask Tim @ the GCOR Class on the 13th..............................I know James Schultz and me are signed up ......R U Max??????

According to Kevin, yes.

[alstom]

Aloha Everyone!

I'm just stopping in quick today.

TMCC Man- I'm glad you like my forums, I hope you become a regular there and grow used to it like Matthew did until of this crap happened with me and Eric thinking he was taking over my forums....

I submitted two photos to RP.net. Hopefully they'll make it in. One of them has been re-submitted because I think that it's bull*** that they rejected it before.

If you wanna see my newest photos I got from yesterday, they should still be under "newest photos" in my unicapital homepage in my sig below. If not check out the last photo under Cuyahoga Falls and the last several photos on Akron. Both cities are in Ohio.

As a matter of fact, I hope that I get lucky, I'm going railfanning here shortly along CSX's New Castle Sub. for about an hour and a half while my parents check out a house and "talk" with the landlord. This track should offer a good 5-10 trains in this amount of time, but maybe not. Monday's are supposed to be good.

Alec- Congrats on your BNSF SD70ACe. That's your first ACe period? Because down here on CSX, the 20 that they own have been showing up frequetly but I haven't seen one since Dec. 31, 05. (CSX # 4845) Since then, I've just been seeing Union Pacific SD70ACe's which are starting to get old.

Rich

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[coborn35]

We got a BNSF ACe up here.