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SPOTTER CONTEST

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A 2-month Spotter contest, that could interest many of us...
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That's a photographer contest, not a spotter contest.

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ehusmann wrote:That's a photographer contest, not a spotter contest.

Erwin
In France, we don't have so many people only collecting serials. Most of them take pictures and are called spotters.
Now if you want to come back to the origins of the name to make a contest, we need to make a new world war :wink:
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ehusmann wrote:That's a photographer contest, not a spotter contest.

Erwin
Another example ...
http://fosa.fr/meetingdelair/espace-spotters-2016/
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A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

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semantics.
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Richard from Rotterdam wrote:semantics.
:agree: But the most important is to shoot no ? :wink:
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ehusmann wrote:A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

Erwin
But in order to take a photo you have to spot the plane. Ergo, it is a spotter's contest. :roll:
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PH-BRAD wrote:
ehusmann wrote:A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

Erwin
But in order to take a photo you have to spot the plane. Ergo, it is a spotter's contest. :roll:
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ehusmann wrote:A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

Erwin
Well, maybe there's a price for the best log as well :D
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PH-BRAD wrote:
ehusmann wrote:A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

Erwin
But in order to take a photo you have to spot the plane. Ergo, it is a spotter's contest. :roll:
I know, the necessary vs sufficient discussion remains tricky. But that's ok.

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SquAdmin wrote:Well, maybe there's a price for the best log as well :D
Idea, indeed. Let's all send in a photo of a nice log, see how they value that! If indeed it is a 'spotters' contest it should be considered, no?

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SquAdmin wrote:
ehusmann wrote:A non-spotting photographer can send in pictures and win, a non-photographing spotter cannot win. Ergo, it is a contest for photographers, not for spotters.

Erwin
Well, maybe there's a price for the best log as well :D
But if you don't have a picture, it didn't happen..... :twisted:
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Re: SPOTTER CONTEST

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But.... First of all, get your gear out!
Piccs or it didn't happen!
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