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I did not see the report as a black eye on railfans. I saw it as a sad little man who cannot deal with women up close and personal on dates and such but has to climb towers and play peeping tom. <br /> <br />If I was shooting trains, I do it from near the railroad. <br /> <br />On my last trip to the east coast, I had my camcorder on the Gettysburg Battlefield at the Union left on the round tops (Little Round top to be specific) and aimed it at the high water mark in the Union Center about a mile away. <br /> <br />The camera successfully captured the marker and I attempted to read the brass plaque that is about the size of a classroom blackboard on that marker's base I was able to get some of it before the camera failed to resolve the image in macro mode (Apparently no macro on it) If I can find the image, I'll try to extract it and link it later. <br /> <br />Bottom line, I think railfans have nothing to fear. <br /> <br />Edit** I placed the images into my photobucket in the sig link below. Commenting on the images they were taken with a Sony TVR 460 Digital 8 handycam. The video was put on the memory stick rather than digital tape so the resolution is not the best. I can image to a little over twice the resolution on tape shoots. So I wonder what might actually be possible with that tape that day. <br /> <br />In the last shoot before it blurred completely you can almost see a person to the left of the monument and a cannon in the foreground. Again I wonder if a tape shoot would actually produce much better imagery. Possibly enough to read the marker.
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