The Globemaster over the lake

A wonderful piece of machinery which the ADF will get a great deal of use from.

Not bad for about A$500 million each!

Here is a pic from the defence website. Must have been taken from the plane that was buzzing around it like a persistent blowfly. Be warned, the photo is 8MB!

Lots of point and shoot cams come standard with 10x optical soom.

DSLRS cost a mint for lenses – 10x equvalent (300mm approx) can cost betwen 250 to > 1500 clams depending on quality.

I am envious of Mrs Danmans Fuji Finepix S5500 with its 10x optical zoom – but it will never have as big a CMOS sensor as my D70 – and no were near as much manual functions.

Horses for courses I guess.

Also the pilot was very obliging by coming over low, slow and close a few times.

Nope, It’s a significantly cheaper all-digital Konica Minolta Dimage Z3.

Only 4 megapixels, but I was OK with that because I bought it to publish to the web and not print to A3.

It does, however have 12x optical zoom, a very good anti-shake system, and very fast auto-focus, all handy things for this sort of thing.

Here’s a review.

Just out of interest JB, were you using a digital SLR? Must have heaps of zoom for those great close ups.

Fat little sucker, isn’t she?

We got a good view of it circling over Deakin too.

Bloody impressive. I took a few on my camera phone as it came over our building each time.

The last time it came over it was heading north out of town and started to pick up speed/altitude – shook the building.

Prancing Horse? Must be powered by Ferrari!