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On friday we went to Pinewood Studios to attend the Remeberance Parade hosted by the Veterans of the Army and RAF Film and Photographic Units who were based there during the war.
A (relatively) huge attendance of about 10 vets and their families, representatives from the Imperial War Museum (who co-ordinate a lot of the AFPU events) - about 100 people in all.
We all fell in for drinks and stickies in the bar of the British Cinematographers' Association afterwards and gazed at some of the old kit on display - Freddy Young's Gossen Lunasix light-meter, David Lean's Agfa-lupe etc.
It was a real treat talking shop to guys who did the same job I do now on the Anzio and Normandy beaches as well as the Western Desert and Northern Europe. And guess what? They had the same problems we have now in getting taken seriously by the military heirachy... Nothing changes...
And even though the eldest vet will be 100 in April, he was still shooting - digital - and was right up to date with all the stuff we have now. I was using my Leica and he laughed at me for being old-fashioned!!!

A Grand Day Out...
 
Arkady said:
I was using my Leica and he laughed at me for being old-fashioned!!!
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:lol:

Sounds like you had a good day to remember.
I thought Army photographers were a relatively new thing...
 
Sounds like a great time :)
 
Dead Man Walking... I say we got a Dead Man Walking here!!!:D
 
I thought Rob was after me today :eek:

I looked down at my desk and noticed a red laser dot on my chest, good job it was just a work mate messing about with a presentation pointer :D
 
digitalfailure said:
I thought Rob was after me today :eek:

I looked down at my desk and noticed a red laser dot on my chest, good job it was just a work mate messing about with a presentation pointer :D
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That's what you think.

You *think* he's your work mate.....he's not....he's a plant....a hired assassin.
 
well he'll not earn much money with a remote control for a projector/pointer :D
 
It's called 'lasing' the target. The SF and Recce boys carry laser target designators which 'paint' the target allowing the smart bombs to home in with pin-point accuracy.
Watching a Paveway slam through someone's bedroom window is a real treat.
Big hole in the ground time...
 
mrgubby said:
thats just the laser used for lighting up the target , before you know it you'll have a cluster bomb up your chuff :eek:
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Arkady said:
Watching a Paveway slam through someone's bedroom window is a real treat.
Big hole in the ground time...
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Now, if DF is in said bedroom at the time, that'd really prove the theory...
 
Might upset his Mrs tho...
Paveways are hard on the furniture and fittings...
 
[batfink voice]your bombs are useless against me, you wings are like a shield of steel :D[/batfink voice]

Hee hee, around he the chavs would have nicked the explosives before the thing hit the floor.
 
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