Talk me out of an F4

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"The 80-200 F2.8 is another example"... Great lens, highly recommended!
 
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Seems there are bargains, even without fungus!
 

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This 50th Edition F5 is for you

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1688746
 

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The Phantom II is one of my favorite aircraft, but theF86 is my dream jet.
 

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Much too late, he already bought and received the F4.
 

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Horatio: If you want I'll send you my old F4 manual. I think I know where it is.
 

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Send PM with your address and I'll send the manual.
 
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Are they the T38 rather than the F5? They are the same plane but I think the ones in the pictures are called T38's.
Yeah, I know. But it wouldn't be funny. Northrop called the plane F5 for international sales, but the USAF used them as trainers, the T38 Talon.
 

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Much too late, he already bought and received the F4.
Here you go. 1970. CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA (CID) Forgetting to put the gear down, when landing during an air show, 3 or 4 million, Bob French, local pro photographer, (shot this with a Hasselblad, probably with a 500mm) priceless! French studios were the best commercial folks in Iowa. I remember taking my 5x7 film holders, loaded with Ektachrome, they helped out a young nitwit kid like me. The Naval Aviator ejected, as I recall he was OK, physically.
 

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An oh shit moment only exceeded by the pilot armed the bomb and then released it on the carrier deck.
 

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An oh shit moment only exceeded by the pilot armed the bomb and then released it on the carrier deck.
I remember the store in the downtown that sold high end cameras, Hasselblad, Leica, and the Japanese brands. They had Bob French's color work on the wall above the counter. That photo probably sold more Hasselblad and Zeiss lenses than anything else. I was awestruck, no digital, no autofocus, talent and a cool head.