Lyon 16th Feb on the mound.

[johnoakes]

This is a bit like the curates's egg.
Good and bad in patches.

1st it was the last day of the snow--its all gone now at our level.Thank goodness because I hate it.LOL

2nd I got to the mound overlooking the runeay at Lyon and the visibility was just about good enough--and I only fell off the mound once in the last of the snow.

3rd Photoshop 7 is brilliant and brought up grey shots into sharp colour and focus--Its new to me but I love it.

4th I am trying to get to terms with the lens--an Olympus 1.9x that I screw into the end of my Fuji S5700.It is enough mag. to make a difference from the mound BUT if it as anything less than full mag. I get the porthole effect.

Its far from perfect but you can at least see the aircraft being photoed.

It may have to do until I buy a Canon EOS(after the boat-the Clio for my partner-the deck extension on the ground floor etc.--roll on my Old Age Pension in October.LOL)

After all that twaddle here are the photos--hope you can overlook the quality and feel the width.LOL







































If you want the AF regionals Lyon surely is the place.

Off to |Geneva next Wed/ to bring a family group in.
May get an hour if I'm lucky.
Geneva is good midweek--expect the unexpected seems to be the motto there.

As usual any clues ,tips from better photographers will be more than welcome and acted upon(espedcially if you have an unwanted Canon EOS just lying about at a good price.LOL)

[CloudWarrior]

Good selection John,
What can you tell us about the Tristar, is it a resident or just passing through?

RE: the porthole effect, if you take a picture try leaving a bigger area around the subject and then crop out the offending blur. I use photoshop 5, I'm sure the crop tool is on 7.

[johnoakes]

Thanks for the feedback--the problem lies with incompatable lenses--I should not try try make my camera function like an SLR on the cheap.LOL

I have cropped the shots and if I use full mag.Which is useful from the mound there is no problem--then something comes in on the nearer of the two runways and I need less than full mag.--hence the porthole.
If I had time I would take off the lens for those shots but by that time the landing shot has gone.

The solution is a better camera but I have only had this one a year and it usually performs very well especially when you consider the price.

At Geneva--with one runway--once set up it works very well.

I will sort it--falling off the mound--whilst amusing to any spectators had me short of time as there were 3 on approach.So no lens changes

It always happens doesn't it.LOL.

The tristar is non flying resident--it may be a cafe or similar.

[Deleted]

Great photos John, the lens, although not perfect, gives a good feel to the place on a cold winters morning.

Daren, the Tristar is C-FTNA and for some reason it fluctuated year on year between Air Canada and Eastern Airways changing livery and regs to N312EA regularly from 1972 to 81. It was then operated by Air Transat in 1988 as C-FTNA before being leased to Air France for a two year period. It finally came to grief during a hail storm whilst opping for Air Transat in 1991. Having taken off from lyon it was forced to return never to fly again. It was subsequently sold to the airport administrators for 1 Euro and has remained in the cargo area ever since. The fire service used it for training for a while but as John says it may well be a cafe now.