70-200 L IS - Dell - It's Really Here!

[ThePhantomsGirlfriend]

Well, it is really, really here! (and not a rolled up magazine...)

Wow, I can't wait to try this baby out. Well, let's rephrase "baby" - this is one heavy sucker!

I hope everyone who ordered one gets one!!!

Smiles,

Holly

[Belmondo]

Congratulations!! Have you named it (him/her) yet?

Tom

[ThePhantomsGirlfriend]

belmondo wrote:
Congratulations!! Have you named it (him/her) yet?
Tom

Ha ha....no, I haven't. Guess that's mostly a guy thing? (maybe not).

Okay...let's see - Big Boy?

Smiles,

Holly

[Canuck]

ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:
belmondo wrote:
Congratulations!! Have you named it (him/her) yet?
Tom

Ha ha....no, I haven't. Guess that's mostly a guy thing? (maybe not).

Okay...let's see - Big Boy?

Smiles,

Holly


Congratulations!
It's a Canon L IS lens! Do we have a length and weight too? Did I miss the lens shower? Man I miss the coolest stuff. :( Are we going to throw a party for it? LOL!!!

[Rob Larsen]

Got mine yesterday too! Maybe we can take them to the park together. ;)

[Wickedfn4u]

How much were they selling them for?

[ThePhantomsGirlfriend]

Rob Larsen wrote:
Got mine yesterday too! Maybe we can take them to the park together. ;)


Hey maybe we can get them together and they'll make baby "L" glass lenses...LOL!

I hve tomorrow off - the weather is supposed to be great and I'm going out shooting!

And congratulations on getting yours - hooray!!!!

To answer the guy who posted after you - I ended up paying $1139.

Smiles,

Holly

[Belmondo]

I'm jealous (so what else is new?).

I have to spend tomorrow driving my wife 150 miles to the oral surgeon and back. Besides, my replacement lens was in Indianapolis as of 4:00 this afternoon, so it's extremely unlikely I'd have it in time.

BTW, if those lenses get too carried away trying to make little lenses, DO NOT throw a bucket of water on them. There are very delicate electronics inside.

Have fun.

Tom

[Belmondo]

We rolled into the driveway at about 4:00 this afternoon, and the FedEx driver was just getting ready to drive away after attempting to deliver the lens and getting no answer at the door. I laid down in the street in front of him and managed to get the lens in my hands after all. I didn't get a chance to do much with it today.....the sun was well down by the time I got my wife into her chair with an ice pack on her face. Still, the couple pictures I took (the neighbor's chimney, a couple of the sunset, etc.) are decidedly better than the first lens which is being shipped back tomorrow.

Now, it's off to the railroad tracks to bag some train photos.

Hope you're having fun with yours.

Tom

[CyberDyneSystems]

:(

Where's Mine?

:(

Well,. congrats to you all for scoring such a fantastic deal!! :D :)

[ThePhantomsGirlfriend]

belmondo wrote:
I got my wife into her chair with an ice pack on her face. Still, the couple pictures I took (the neighbor's chimney, a couple of the sunset, etc.) Tom

Good thing you didn't take one of the wife after the oral surgeon.....

I had to work - darn - but tomorrow - tomorrow is my day to go out and play!!! I may even try to post a photo here!

Smiles,

Holly

[Belmondo]

ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:Good thing you didn't take one of the wife after the oral surgeon.....



You're right. After almost 4 1/2 hours in the chair, she was looking a little ragged. I just peeked in on her now, and she's starting to look (and feel) a little more like her old self. She's on some kind of pain medication right now, so tomorrow, she'll proabably feel like she was hit with a truck. We'll deal with that then.

Please do post some pictures after you get a couple 'keepers.' You're in such a beautiful part of the country, there must always be something to shoot.

Take care.

Thos.

[Canuck]

ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:
Rob Larsen wrote:
Got mine yesterday too! Maybe we can take them to the park together. ;)


Hey maybe we can get them together and they'll make baby "L" glass lenses...LOL!

I hve tomorrow off - the weather is supposed to be great and I'm going out shooting!

And congratulations on getting yours - hooray!!!!

To answer the guy who posted after you - I ended up paying $1139.

Smiles,

Holly

Holly,
I was wondering which part of AZ are you in? I a part of DMAFB for 3+ years in Tucson. For me it was just time to go...like to England and here I am. I have to say I was not won over by the Sonoran Desert. I would however say that Flagstaff was interesting and a lot cooler. If you are in the desert, as I recall, there were only 3 days of all day overcast whilst I was there. I also got bored with it being sunshine all the time; over here in England is has been really overcast for about the past week and is it cool. The way November started it was looking like it was going to rain twice that month...once for 14 days and once for 16 days. Idunno. I find it more interesting here any which way you put it. What's the oldest bit you can find in the US?
Over here it is Stonehenge, at about 2500 BC. Speaking of Stonehenge, what is there today is the third version if you will. If you go to the English Heritage site and look up Stonehenge it may tell you there. The guide book I have tells all. It is truely a shame a lot of people never get to see the UK/Europe. They really have no idea what they are missing.

[ThePhantomsGirlfriend]

Canuck wrote:
[quote]ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:

I was wondering which part of AZ are you in? It is truely a shame a lot of people never get to see the UK/Europe. They really have no idea what they are missing.


I'm in Sedona, which is truly beautiful, although I am getting a bit tired of the heat in the summer. It didn't used to get so hot - but it's been that way for three years now - so I guess this is going to be the pattern. I still love it here. I'm originally from New Hampshire and I don't miss those winters!

I'd LOVE to see Stonehenge. I was hired once to lead a meditation during one of the eclipses, but to my dismay the tour company fell apart. Would have been great as I would have been allowed IN Stonehenge. I hear you really cannot go in any more - just near.

I'd love to see all of Europe in fact - and that is on my agenda before I get too old!

Smiles,

Holly

[Canuck]

ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:
Canuck wrote:
[quote]ThePhantomsGirlfriend wrote:

I was wondering which part of AZ are you in? It is truely a shame a lot of people never get to see the UK/Europe. They really have no idea what they are missing.


I'm in Sedona, which is truly beautiful, although I am getting a bit tired of the heat in the summer. It didn't used to get so hot - but it's been that way for three years now - so I guess this is going to be the pattern. I still love it here. I'm originally from New Hampshire and I don't miss those winters!

I'd LOVE to see Stonehenge. I was hired once to lead a meditation during one of the eclipses, but to my dismay the tour company fell apart. Would have been great as I would have been allowed IN Stonehenge. I hear you really cannot go in any more - just near.

I'd love to see all of Europe in fact - and that is on my agenda before I get too old!

Smiles,

Holly



Holly,
Cool! I've been to Stonehenge and it was July, 02 and you can get about 20 ft from it, and there is a rather lame barrier around it. You can take pics of it without getting that aforementioned barrier in the shot. Unfortunately, the pics are 35mm. I need to talk to some friends of mine and/or find out how to get 35mm pics scanned so that I can have them in at least JPEG format to post to a website. Speaking of which, I am putting together a website to show some the pics I have taken. link: http://therock.fotopic.net but it has only one pic there right now. I need a massive amount of time to really get it off the ground. Have a look, the current and only pic is Carew Castle, in Wales.

You really need to see it over here, and you can't possibly understand what you're missing. The Alps are out of this world, and I've skiied them in Austria twice. Breathtaking awesome is one way to describe them that comes to mind. I've also flown over the French Alps at FL 340 (34,000 ft). That brings up the pics that I took on the way home from a trip to Crete, Greece. What's more is those are 35mm pics and a $150 70-300mm Sigma lens. However, they ahve been developed onto a picture CD so they will be added to the website, eventually. I must say some of the coolest pics I've taken yet were around dusk, like the lighthouse in Chania, Crete, Greece. Again it will be there in due time. I need to sell some of these pics and recoup the investment.

Regarding Az, I can honestly say that I don't miss the sun or the rediculously hot it gets there. Hottest I can confirm, at the control tower on DMAFB one day was 112F and 60% humidity. It was monsoon season and this was just before it came in. You can feel it coming. I can't explain it, you just have to know what I'm talking about. It looks like it will be overcast all day well into next week, and possibly rain! I will have to look thru the archive and see if I can find some pics to give you an idea what it's like here. I really ejoy days of all day overcast and no rain. However, the rain is what makes it so incredibly green here. Green in awesome; way better than reddish-brown! Dare I say there is more green in the US military BDUs than in the Sonoran desert! I'm looking fwd to the winter here...33 deg raining like hell, and 40 MPH wind. That's the best! Actually, those are the times you wish that it would get a few degrees colder and snow. That's truly the best, snow! FYI, the 3 yrs I was in Tucson, it snowed twice: Easter Sunday 1999, day after MLK Jr. day in 2001. It has snowed here close to 10 times in England. In fact, I was stranded in Austria, because Stanstead Int'l Airport was closed due to bad weather. 4 inches of show brought this part of England to a halt. I, in Austria was looking at about a foot and a half all around outside the Airport. Now to put the icing on the cake, I'm used to 12 ft of snow annually back home! Bring on the snow!