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A fairly clean Belle Gevo trails on a southbound light power move in the last rays of fall afternoon sun.
Back at the Mississippi Highway 18 crossing in Brandon the next morning, and the M-SHNS is just getting underway for their run to Meridian. When a Norfolk Southern crew takes over there, this will become NS train 340 for the rest to the run to Birmingham.
+++ WARNING: IF YOU CONSIDER PURCHASING SUCH A CAMERA BODY, PLEASE GOOGLE FOR THE FOLLOWING COMBINATION OF KEYWORDS BEFOREHAND AND THEN THINK CAREFULLY: "Canon EOS3 BC Error" +++
The EOS3 was Canon's last prosumer film camera. It had many features of the pro EOS1V but is less sturdily built. It can be fitted with an extra battery pack which I don't have and don't need. The one 2CR5 battery is enough.
The EOS3 is a very advanced SLR. It has 45 focus points and an eye-controlled system that selects the one you want. Just look at the part of the scene you want the focus to be on and half-press the shutter button. I have been playing around with mine and found the eye control to work very well, after several calibration runs. Those who don't like that can switch the eye control off and select the focus point with the control wheels.
There is also a way to combine the spot metering with the focus point, which I find very useful, but I haven't tried that. It means reducing the number of active focus points to 11.
I also don't know how the actual AF performs. With the Nikon F5 I was distinctly underwhelmed about the accuracy and speed. With the Canon I still need to try it outside. The dry runs seems OK, but that doesn't mean much.
The eye controlled AF was not taken over to the DSLRs but I heard it makes a comeback in the new EOS R line of MILCs.
In short, it is a very advanced and well endowed SLR that offers pretty much all the functionality of the EOS1V but is a lot lighter and cheaper. Mine is in near-mint condition, although it must be at least 12 years old. Production lasted from 1998-2007.
Shot with:
Canon EOS600D
Leica Bellows R (16860)
Leica 100mm f/4 Macro Elmar-R, bellows version (11230)
204's nice pair of vintage EMDs wakes up some seagulls as they ease along the marsh at St. Augustine. Once they clear the slow curves through town, it will be a quick run north the rest of the way to Bowden Yard in Jacksonville.
That vintage car staged as a photo prop definitely attracted a crowd to the famous old house in Rock Spring, as the 4501 pulls a Saturday excursion south to Summerville. Given the staged car, didn't feel bad making a couple of fiber-optic markers disappear in Lightroom for this one so full disclosure.
A trio of SD40-2s, representing two of the Columbus area Genesee & Wyoming Railroads (Columbus & Greenville and Alabama & Gulf Coast) sit tied down on the rails of the third (Luxapalila Valley). While I'm not totally anit-G&W from a railfan perspective, but it would be nice if Columbus still had the variety that was available before three of the seven local railroads turned orange & black.
They don't have many left on the roster following the PSR purges, but in recent months it seems that the remaining SD70MACs have broken out of local service and back into mainline action. One does the honors on a Kansas City to Shreveport manifest entering the yard at Watts to drop off cars for the weekday Watts Dodger.
I would’ve thought that this was the absolute worst time for the council to decide that glass collection was non-essential.
(New challenges require new approaches: for the duration of my time off work, and with my horizons severely limited, I’ve decided to experiment with shooting and presenting pairs of images, instead of the usual single frames. The results might not turn out to be anything special, but there’s got to be something worthwhile in the process.)
1st June 2020 — GBR, Nottinghamshire
Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)
Canon EOS-3
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM — Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art
B+W 061 green filter — B+W 022 medium yellow filter
Hugging the south bank of the Flathead River, the Night Gas continues west towards Thompson Falls. There was no shortage of great shots taken during my week in Montana, but I think this one has to take the cake for the shot of the trip. Beautiful scenery, perfect weather, and clean power. What more could one ask for?