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Good airshow lens?
Hi again Charlie...
You'll like that 170 - 500mm. It's a really neat lens, and you'll never look at a bird, airplane or even the moon again without thinking about grabbing that lens! Just remember that bit about beyond infinity focus and have a blast with it! I can't wait to try it! Looks like I'll have to take advantage of an old friend who owns a bed & breakfast in the Lake District and hang around the places Rusty does to get his excellent low-flying RAF shots... As and when the combination gets used, I'll post the results here... cheers m8 Pete |
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Good airshow lens?
Hi there Bob...
I handhold, but the Minolta Maxxum 7D DSLR I use it on has sensor-based image stabilization. Even with sensor crop factor making it essentially a 750mm, I get consistently sharper shots than with my old Sigma 500 on 35mm Maxxum 9xi bodies. It's a matter of trying the combination hand-held and seeing what the results are like. For whatever reason, I just always thought this combination (or any large lens for that matter) would need either a monopod or tripod for best results. I'm still going to purchase a decent monopod just for good measure as spending four hours on a flight-line following everything in flight and shooting away is bound to have a tiring effect on the arms... Cheers Pete |
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Good airshow lens? - P-51D NL51KD 44-73436 Olympic Flight Museum OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg (1/1)
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OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg Very nice indeed Bob.. good clear filling of the shot there! Just the sort of results I'm going to be looking at - was this shot handheld? Cheers Pete |
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Good airshow lens?
"Charlie" wrote in message . .. The ability to hand hold the Bigma is inversely proportional to the length of time I hold it. The stark lack of Popeye arms is what has me thinking monopod. Still, I'd like a better solution for air shows. I think a monopod is a great choice whenever you have a camera/lens that needs a little more stability than handheld can provide. It's quick to turn, if it's tall enough, you can tilt and pan instantly. I got a manfroto monopod and quick release head and the same head on my tripod for easy changing if necessary. Rob |
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Good airshow lens? - P-51D NL51KD 44-73436 Olympic Flight Museum OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg (1/1)
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Good airshow lens? - P-51D NL51KD 44-73436 Olympic Flight Museum OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg (1/1) - 2 attachments
Hi again Bob...
Handheld, and just about falling over backward as I was shooting rather straight up as the P-51 banked over the tarmac I was standing on. Another testament to the 7D's image stabilization is that I have a pretty badly screwed up back, and have a fair bit of trouble just standing still, much less doing a smooth track on a fast moving aircraft... Very nice indeed! I love a good ol'P-51 in a metal finish with good weather! Can't wait to see what results I get with my combination... Below is the best of what I was getting with my Panasonic FZ-7. Ground/static shots were no problem whatsoever, but display images were another thing altogether! Cheers Pete |
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Good airshow lens? - P-51D NL51KD 44-73436 Olympic Flight Museum OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg (1/1) - 2 attachments
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Good airshow lens? - P-51D NL51KD 44-73436 Olympic Flight Museum OLM 6-18-06 01.jpg (1/1) - 2 attachments
I took tons of airshow pictures with my Minolta XG-1 and X-700 film camreas.
Here's a shot of a Huey flying over my house the other day. Nikon D80, Nikon 18-200mm VR lens at 95mm. F8 1/1000sec ISO 400 equivalent. Cropped in *a lot* with PhotoShop. Held in very shaky hands, too. The damn thing's got more controls than the Space Shuttle but it's got a lot of potential. I just hope I do. Regards, PLMerite "Bob Harrington" wrote in message ... "Peter.D.Evans" orbscure.AT.hotmail.DOT.com wrote in . 109.144: Hi again Bob... Handheld, and just about falling over backward as I was shooting rather straight up as the P-51 banked over the tarmac I was standing on. Another testament to the 7D's image stabilization is that I have a pretty badly screwed up back, and have a fair bit of trouble just standing still, much less doing a smooth track on a fast moving aircraft... Very nice indeed! I love a good ol'P-51 in a metal finish with good weather! Can't wait to see what results I get with my combination... Below is the best of what I was getting with my Panasonic FZ-7. Ground/static shots were no problem whatsoever, but display images were another thing altogether! Beautiful... But yeah. My first digital camera was a Sony CD1000 back in 2001. It was okay for static subjects, but all-but useless for aerial photography. Between the shutter lag, the long blackout of the viewfinder during image capture, and the single shot buffer that took around 8 seconds to write the image off to the CD-R... Nice toy at the time, but I had to stick with the Minolta film SLRs for flying displays. Bob ^,,^ |
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