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Dave McNeil 16-Sep-2013 03:27
We are having a TF 2-505 Grenada 30 year reunion 1-3 Nov 2013 in Charleston, SC. Anyone interested in joining us should contact me at: dave.mcneil@hannahsolargov.com
Guest 20-Dec-2012 22:36
Hi Oly! You have some interesting photos and I need to ask you a few questions if you remember any of the guys you served with in grenada. contact me back jenstar5505@gmail.com
Guest 26-Nov-2012 19:38
Great pics Brother.

Airborne!
Oly Olson09-Sep-2012 06:40
Absolutely you may. Thanks for your service!
MSG Chris Lewis 06-Sep-2012 04:02
GREAT Site! I help maintain the Division Museum's Facebook page & wanted to know if I could use your site on the Museum Facebook Page - ALL THE WAY & H-MINUS!

MSG Chris Lewis
B Co 3/505 PIR Oct 87 - Jun 91
B Co 2/505 PIR Feb 93 - Jan 96
HHC 2/505 PIR Apr 02 - Jul 04
HHC 1/505 PIR Jul 04 - Oct 05
Oly Olson15-Jun-2012 02:35
Absolutely! That's why I put up the collection - its for all of us. Best, Oly
Darrell Andersen 07-Jun-2012 00:07
Oly- Great pics of Grenada/UF, they bring back a lot of memories. I was CSC 1/508 and was so frickin' cherry when we deployed. I think I had a total of about 10 days in division at the time when we were sent to Grenada. I would also, with your permission,like to post this to a small group page on FB. Thanks again!
Robin Packard 25-May-2012 05:57
Great pics! My husband was one of the Army Rangers dropped in that day in October 1983. Do you have any more pics of Urgent Fury? He has just now began to tell me about this part of his life. Thank you for your service!God Bless!
Oly Olson22-Feb-2012 17:04
Thanks Curt! Absolutely you may link to this site. Thanks for asking!
Curt Richter 16-Feb-2012 18:02
AWESOME photos Oly - I was w/ the 1/508 (B Co.) and those bring back so many memories, brother! May I put a link to the gallery on facebook (and will credit you even though they are (c))?

P.S. - frickin' Rangers and their camo dirt-bikes lol. I was jealous of those damn things!
Oly Olson14-Dec-2011 17:36
Thank you for your service brother!
Sean Bermingham 13-Dec-2011 23:56
Enjoyed your Operation Urgent Fury pictures! Was a Platoon Leader in A Co. 2/325 at the time. Had only been in the Division a couple months. Our Company was the IRC of the DRF 1 and I was lucky enough to have Staff Duty at Battalion when we were alerted.

Thank's for posting!
Oly Olson19-Nov-2011 05:49
Outstanding!
Shaveman 17-Nov-2011 02:01
Big O, I found Wolf!
Oly Olson25-Apr-2011 06:58
Hey thanks for dropping in Sir! The Army was a great springboard and I'm always proud to say "Army" when the Air Force and Navy pukes I fly with ask me what branch I served with. :-)
keith nightingale 17-Apr-2011 22:20
Happy to see a TF soldier do well.

Hubba Hubba
Oly Olson13-Mar-2011 05:57
Nope.
Guest 03-Mar-2011 20:46
Are you Jeff Olson from CSUS ?

Michael Menz menz@hp.com
Tom Maloney 25-Dec-2010 17:03
Olly

Tom Maloney here. Don't know if you remember me. Can't remember who you were right now. must be alzheimers setting in lol. I guess it was almost 30 yrs ago, We were both in 3rd platoon B 2/505 wow, great pics. I remember the day Raj died, what a sad day. If you get this message please contact
Waqidi Falicoff 31-Aug-2009 04:14
Thanks Oly for your comment. I have adapted one of my Russian telescope mounts for the camera and will now experiment with it (one axis tracking only). I presume that you turn on the long shutter noise feature in the camera when you take a deep sky shot (presumably this a dark frame subtraction). Do you use something like Deepskystacker?
Oly Olson01-Jun-2009 21:44
Hello Waqidi,

I use an astro tripod with clock drive so that the telescope moves with the stars/moon. This helps with focusing as you will need the star to be a very bright one and very still in the view screen for focusing (if it's moving it's almost impossible to do it). Once you locate a bright star somewhere in the neighborhood of where you wish to take a photo, zoom in on it with 10x magnification, wait for the image to settle and focus in/out on that one bright star. Make sure that you have your telescope/lens friction set so that it will hold focus. Using a camera lens and camera tripod without tracking it's very very hard to do. If you have an astro tripod and wish to use camera lenses with autofocus they will often focus properly on a very bright star.

In the mean time consider stopping in to the forums on CloudyNights.com for a wealth of information and ideas regarding astro photography and telescopes.

Cheers, Oly
Waqidi Falicoff 31-May-2009 05:39
After seeing your great moon photo I bought a Panasonic G1! I am having trouble seeing star images in the magnified LCD screen or electronic viewfinder. There is a considerable noise on the screens in semi-dark conditions. With the moon I can focus ok as the magnified image is fairly clear. What camera settings and techniques do you use for focusing on stars, nebulae, etc?

I am currently not connecting to any of my telescope but using the 40-200mm zoom that comes with the camera. Perhaps in darker conditions the camera screens will show a black background versus the blue that I see in semi-dark sky conditions in a urban setting.

Keep up the great work.
Photos by Paul23-Mar-2008 00:46
Hey Oly . . . Exceptionally nice galleries. Keep goin' !
Paul - (aka "Twid" from the DPR forum.)
Guest 03-Dec-2007 02:09
Great Website

www.BirdMad.com
Oly Olson10-Nov-2007 07:38
I use Photoshop CS3 and/or Lightroom for most of my RAW development and post processing work. For image resizing I prefer to use FastStone Photo Resizer, it's excellent and free. Many of the images on my site are JPEGs directly from an Olympus DSLR. The Olympus software you're thinking of is called Studio. I don't like it and only use it to update my camera and lenses.

Best,
Oly
blizzard09-Nov-2007 14:58
nice to see your most excellnet work
hope to see more of it soon


if I may, a question about what software you use and if you know anything about
Olympus premium software (sorry I forget the name) may be you could give some info
Thanks
Oly Olson03-Nov-2007 08:44
Thank you Chris!