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Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

Really miss the old site too. I understood where to go to get the information I wanted. Example....where do I go to see a list of top uploaders for the past 30 days? 365 days? Where do I go to see bar graphs of my upload stats? There are many other things I miss from the old site that I can't find a...

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Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

After reading the posts on the "upgrade" and noticing that most users agree with my opinion that this is a disaster, why hasn't the A.net team not rolled out the changes in a parallel fashion where both the old and new sites would be functional simultaneously while all the bugs are worked ...

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Re: Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion

As of now I have to give the new Airliners.net two thumbs down. :evil: :( I don't like the new look, since it makes it look boring and just like other aviation sites (jetphotos). The original look might have been a bit dated, but it was very comfortable and easy to look at. I also miss the fact that...

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Dissapearing Views

January 1st I got a photo in, that received about 600 hits in 24 hours. Today is January 3rd and my photo is at 60 hits. What is going on?

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RE: What Compact Camera For Fence Shots?

Lot of good points guys.....I have expanded my choices to some ILC cameras, like Sony A5000.

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RE: What Compact Camera For Fence Shots?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/carlos" class="quote" target="_blank">carlos</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>I have the Sony RX100M3. It is a great camera,...

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RE: What Compact Camera For Fence Shots?

Good rundown Dan.....since I own Canon DSLR gear, I think I would like to stick with Canon, but I'm open to suggestions since owning a non-Canon compact camera will have no detriment to my gear collection.

Keep the suggestions rolling in....

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What Compact Camera For Fence Shots?

I'm looking to purchase a compact camera strictly for through-the-fence type of photography for aircraft close to the fence. My main requirements are: -ability to stick lens thru the fence -fast shutter response (don't like shutter press lag) -fairly high resolution (around 20MP) -RAW -image stabili...

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RE: Canon 7D Question

Sounds like a brain fart (crash) of the system.

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RE: Question To The Screeners

My 2 cents worth.....It is very hard to argue against screeners. I know, I have done it. My honest suggestion is, take your rejections and move on. Sometimes you can appeal your rejections, but it is less frustrating to just load up your fixed photo you saved in high resolution (and preferably in PS...

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RE: Three Reasons To Photograph GA Aircraft

GA aviation photography is great. All points mentioned are valid ones. The only obstacle to having more complete photographic record of all the <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> aircraft are the screeners on A.net. Some tend to apply same criteria to <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA...

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RE: Screeners/Database Wizards - Fairey Gannet

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Elmdon" class="quote" target="_blank">Elmdon</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Thankyou for that Mick. Its just a shame i'll ...

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RE: Canon Announces 50.6 Megapixel, EOS 5DS

I have read that the sensor for this camera is same as the 7D mark 2, but scaled up to full sensor size.

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RE: If Porter Can't Extend The Runway...

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/yyz717" class="quote" target="_blank">yyz717</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>So, <acronym title="Trillium Air (Canada)">P...

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RE: If Porter Can't Extend The Runway...

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but the Porter business model is centered around operating from <acronym title="Toronto - Billy Bishop City (City Centre / Toronto Island) (YTZ / CYTZ), Canada - Ontario">YTZ</acronym> airport to serve the customers that don't wish to travel to other airports like...

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RE: Hit And Vote Cheating

This topic creates an interesting question in my mind....does higher hits per photo translate to more photo sales? I know this would be hard to track, since A.net has no idea how many photos get sold...but maybe that is part of the motivation as well.

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RE: Hit And Vote Cheating

Some people always look for an advantage. Counting hits (or money, facebook friends, property) is just like anything else in life, that is how we keep score. So it is no surprise this practice has popped up again. I love getting hits too...but I have no idea how to make people click on my photos. I ...

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RE: Default Image Instead Of Pic

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/angad84" class="quote" target="_blank">angad84</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>That's not what's happening. Screening is su...

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RE: Default Image Instead Of Pic

Only screeners are uploading photos now since everyone else has used up their limit....if you notice for last few days uploads went from 1300+ to only 600+ per day since guys like me don't have any room to upload. Would be nice if <acronym title="Albenga (Villanova d'Albenga) (- Clemente Panero) (AL...

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RE: China Planning Comac C929 Widebody

I imagine China has "borrowed" enough intellectual property from hacking into western corporate computers to have a general idea on how to build an airliner.

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RE: Replacing A Photo

Wish more of my "mistakes" got accepted

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RE: Problems Copying Pictures From CF To PC

I use the same camera as you and for several years have used good quality Sandisk CF cards exclusively. Haven't had a problem since....even after being pretty rough with my cards.

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RE: Budget Telephoto Lens.

I can't agree more....don't waste money on cheap lenses. You will end up spending more money down the road anyways. Been there, done that!

Learn from our mistakes.

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RE: How Many Existing Aircraft Are In A-net Database?

Just out of my own experience, 70% of my uploads are brand new registrations for A.net....this is mostly <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> aircraft, but some are 50 or 60 year old airframes and nobody has had the chance to upload them yet. I still have several thousand registrations tha...

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RE: Automation Of Photo Copying And Renaming

Hey Colin, looks like a nice little utility. Always nice to see something that caters more to us pro-users instead of the reams of selfie-taking hoards. What I do with my photos is I copy my Canon files (have 3 different cameras) to the <acronym title="Hokkaido International Airlines (Japan)">HD</ac...

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Automation Of Photo Copying And Renaming

As a frequent uploader on A.net, I take a lot of photos and that involves having to process them when I get home with several full memory sticks. I know there is the tedious way of manually copying files from your memory cards to your computer for further processing/cataloging. Over the years I have...

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RE: Miami Airport Watch Is Now Open.

Just as a side note. <acronym title="Toronto - Lester B. Pearson International (Malton) (YYZ / CYYZ), Canada - Ontario">YYZ</acronym> Airport Watch just has an airside photo tour to welcome the first 787 arrival from Hainan Airlines. This wouldn't be possible without the Airport Watch program. <a hr...

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RE: Miami Airport Watch Is Now Open.

As a member of Airport Watch at another major airport, I have to say that the concept works and both photographers and airport authority benefit from this mutual cooperation. The photographers get access to the perimeter of the airport (and sometimes special infield photo tours for special arrivals)...

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RE: YYZ Spotting Unusual Arrivals And Diversions Quest

Well....my suggestion would be <a href="http://canadianaviationnews.wordpress.com/airport-log/" target="_blank">http://canadianaviationnews.wordpress.com/airport-log/</a> Also watching the weather channel and maybe having a RadarBox would help too. Otherwise just having a circle of contacts that wil...

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RE: Camera Stats

I discussed this topic several years ago about why the EXIF information is getting stripped from our photos. It would be great to have that information to help in determining how a particular shot was made (F stops, shutter speed, length of lens, etc.) Sites like airport-data.com include that inform...

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RE: Air Canada's Best Results In 77 Years.

It was mentioned that AC might pickup more foreign business due to falling CAD$, but nobody has mentioned that some domestic business will disappear due to price increases. Some people are not willing to fly if prices get beyond certain point.

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RE: NY Yankees Pitcher Tanaka Charters 787 NRT-JFK

Just looked up the flight JAL8808 on my RadarBox. He flew on the reg. JA824J. Speed and altitude was pretty standard for that aircraft at around 41,000 ft and 540 knots. He must be an aviation fan.....only a fan would pull a stunt like that <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forum...

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RE: Anyone Tried The 70D?

6D sounds like a fine choice. I use 7D, 5D Mark II and 50D (in that order of most used to least used).

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RE: Do You Have A Workflow?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sovietjet" class="quote" target="_blank">sovietjet</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Pretty interesting, have never seen some...

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RE: Do You Have A Workflow?

I import all my RAW files into DxO Optics Pro 9 first. 1. Level 2. Crop 3. Sharpen 4. Export to 16bit TIFF Open TIFF inside CS5 5. Adjust colour using NIK Color Efex Pro plugin 6. Adjust shadows/higlights in NIK Viveza plugin 7. Adjust saturation 8. Adjust contrast 9. Check for dust spots 10. Conver...

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RE: Report The Bugs Here (Part 6)

Noticed a glitch of sorts.

5 photos were screened. 4 photos were added. No photos were rejected. What happened to 1 photo?

.....EDIT. Nevermind. Photo finally showed up.

[Edited 2014-01-16 07:10:30]

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RE: Video:Emer Landing On Beach Then Attempt T/O Fail

It looks to me like he had a passenger too. If this was a landing due to an engine emergency....I wouldn't get into the plane again as a passenger. Also, if you have a short beach to take-off from, wouldn't you want to unload as much weight (ie. passenger) to make sure you make it? Most accidents ar...

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RE: Question About Sharpening In Photoshop

I use DxO Optics Pro 9 to do all my presharpening before exporting to Photoshop. I could never get the sharpening results I wanted in PS alone.

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RE: What Is Not Common Any More?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ThierryD" class="quote" target="_blank">ThierryD</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Mark, I don't quite see how the amount of ...

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RE: In Memory Of Dale Boeru

I knew Dale....he was a good guy. Always fun to talk to. He will be missed.

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RE: What Is Not Common Any More?

Some spotters upload only photos of airliner-type aircraft, and I do have to say, there is a multitude of photos in the database already....so a bit of restraint on uploads of the same, unchanged aircraft needs to occur. On the other hand uploads of new entries to the <acronym title="Brit Air (Franc...

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RE: Drones For Parcel Deliveries

Maybe some other smart guys could program other octo-copters to follow the Amazon copters and steal the packages when they get delivered

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RE: Spotting At LAS

You don't need a car in Vegas, but I wouldn't do without it. Considering how cheap car rental is in Vegas, I don't see why you wouldn't get it for the extra day...even if you have to rent it yourself. When I was at <acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</a...

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RE: Taking Airplane Photos With Flash

Interesting idea....but obviously wouldn't use a hasselblad camera if it has a 1 sec. delay while shooting.
In the end, I think the guy discovered the trick that most A.net photographers already know.....panning.

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RE: End Of An Era.

I wonder what he will do with all his free time now that he has hung-up the screener hat.

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RE: Stocking Stuffer For That Canon-shooter...

Shot with this lens before....interesting to work with. <a href="http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?cx=partner-pub-8297169501225184%3Aa05n2n-tzky&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=yxuphoto+200-500&sa=Submit&search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&search_field=datedesc&submit=&...

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RE: Color Noise Reduction? Help

I have to give a plug to DxO 9 Optics Pro. I just upgraded to it from version 7 and it has an amazing tool for de-noising any photo without loss of detail. It takes about 20x the usual length of time to process the photo (about 2-3min), but the results are worth it. The way it works is by comparing ...

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RE: Extreme Private Jet Take Off In French Alps

I didn't find the take-off that extreme....just full power and go. The only issue would be with aborted take-offs.

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RE: Best Canon Tele

I have the Canon 7D with a Canon 70-200mm <acronym title="Falcon Air Express (USA)">F2</acronym>.8 <acronym title="Island Airlines (USA) and Eagle Air/Arnaflug (Iceland)">IS</acronym> <acronym title="Samui (Koh Samui) (USM / VTSM), Thailand">USM</acronym> <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom...

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RE: Are Cabin Photos Prohibited?

My motto in this instance would be: "It is easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for a permission". When you snap a photo without asking, worst case is they will ask you to stop (probably not even delete it). Even if they would ask you to delete the photos, just undelete them later. As long as you ...

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