November 20, 2015 02:40PM
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I am kinda old school on this stuff cause I generally don't take much with the still cameras anymore, although I started out doing 50-50 with moving images and stills back in the day. Even own a Pentax 6x7. Nowadays my outings are fewer, and I generally have my hands full with video. Sunday I shot some WW2 stuff including a flight of a P-51 and 7 flights of the B-25. On one of the B-25 flights they made a real low pass over the airstrip and I was thinking it would have been cool for someone to have a still of that with no gear down. I think I understand all the different scenarios, and one thing I had not considered was not only the hassles of changing lenses but the dust aspect of things, not to mention possible damage when changing. Thus the 18-300 makes a lot more sense since you have everything in one lens that you will ever need, especially on the wide end. If you rule out the 70-300 because its an FX, then you are left with the choice of the 55-300 or the 18-300. This makes the difference in price much greater though at $300.00 more for the 18-300. Not sure we can justify it as we don't do a lot of shooting. However, it might make us want to travel a bit more, which would be a good thing! Hey, with the money I am saving from flanger trips I should buy one for my wife and daughter!!!
Thanks for the help guys
Greg
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Greg Scholl |
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Rich Muth |
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John West |
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Rich Muth |
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John West |
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Rich Muth |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 01:25PM |
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John West |
November 20, 2015 01:41PM |
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Jack Neville |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 01:44PM |
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John West |
November 20, 2015 02:17PM |
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Ryan Masecar |
November 20, 2015 11:55AM |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 12:55PM |
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Rich Muth |
November 20, 2015 01:04PM |
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John West |
November 20, 2015 01:19PM |
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Carl |
November 20, 2015 12:25PM |
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KevinM |
November 20, 2015 02:24PM |
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Ryan Masecar |
November 20, 2015 05:41PM |
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KevinM |
November 20, 2015 07:13PM |
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Ryan Masecar |
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KevinM |
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jgunning |
November 21, 2015 09:20AM |
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BrianJ |
November 21, 2015 10:00AM |
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Rich Murray |
November 21, 2015 11:15AM |
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KevinM |
November 21, 2015 10:29AM |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 02:40PM |
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KevinM |
November 20, 2015 03:05PM |
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John West |
November 20, 2015 04:37PM |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 03:41PM |
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jgunning |
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KevinM |
November 20, 2015 07:27PM |
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Greg Scholl |
November 20, 2015 08:58PM |
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jgunning |
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John West |
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jgunning |
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KevinM |
November 21, 2015 08:33PM |
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John West |
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Glenn Butcher |
November 21, 2015 11:49AM |
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John West |
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RDannemann |
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John West |
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BrianJ |
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KevinM |
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Rich Murray |
November 23, 2015 09:41AM |
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Glenn Butcher |
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BillD |
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