2011/09/21

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An American A-10 warplane, nicknamed either Thunderbolt II or Warthog, depending on who you ask, flies over Toronto. A two-seat version of this slow but rugged twin-engine is exactly the plane that Canada should be buying for arctic and maritime patrol – much better than a cold-war style figher jet that costs over $75 million each. Stealthy planes that can carry just a handful of air-to-air missiles as they break the sound barrier while flying straight up just aren't all that important any more.

Use the savings from not having the cutting-edge jets to keep a reduced fleet of fast CF-188's in service, and buy a bunch more C-130 Hercules as well – unlike all of these other planes, those ones are actually useful.

2011/09/18

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To date I've taken over three hundred photos with my TS3 underwater, or about 7.8% of its total exposures. The past couple of times I've made new friends who are curious about what I'm doing with my camera in a fountain.

2011/09/10

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I often use my TS3 to take product photos. This is the image straight out of the camera, exposed at +1ev and lit with my trusty Zebralight; the finished version can be seen with my Vector review. Naturally, I've also reviewed the TS3twice, in fact.