WARBIRDS Over Chenango Bridge - Binghamton NY
10-14-2010, 04:32 PM
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RE: WARBIRDS Over Chenango Bridge - Binghamton NY
800m, I have two camera’s both are cannon rebel’s I believe XTi and XT1. I use one for shots with people next to their pride and joy and gagle flies. This camera has the standard 55mm lens I use it on the sports setting with auto bracketing and multi shot. The action shot camera has a Tamron A017 Macro zoom lens 70mm – 300mm, I’ve actually worn out the motor on my first lens (160,000 photos they just don’t make them like they used to, haha). That is also set up to bracket, and multi shot. I’m having problems with the nice bright days with filtering, apparently I need to step up in camera to be able to use digital filtering (to reduce the washout from white and light colors in sunlight). On multi shot the camera will only focus on the first shot, I can get thirteen shots in one low pass, so I refocus every third shot. This changes with the speed of the subject plane, a ww1 every third focus, a ww11 every other shot. Lastly lenses with higher magnification introduce a lot of shaking, I’ve used as high as 400 and 600 finding them to be to shaky.
That’s the easy part (just requires money). The hard part is understanding tangential acceleration. Once you understand that you can reduce the over run as the plane passes you and it tangentially decelerates. Because we all know the best shots are the ones when the plane is closest to the camera.
Next is placement for the shot. I go to max telephoto then step back till the plane fills the view finder. On most cameras the view finder is smaller than the photo cell so you really want the plane to fill the view finder.
Joe
p.s. sorry for the delays in posting but we (the Binghamton area) got visited by Billy Clinton and everything is slowed down for head of state visitors and it has been taking almost an hour to post once. I hope that will speed up tonight.
That’s the easy part (just requires money). The hard part is understanding tangential acceleration. Once you understand that you can reduce the over run as the plane passes you and it tangentially decelerates. Because we all know the best shots are the ones when the plane is closest to the camera.
Next is placement for the shot. I go to max telephoto then step back till the plane fills the view finder. On most cameras the view finder is smaller than the photo cell so you really want the plane to fill the view finder.
Joe
p.s. sorry for the delays in posting but we (the Binghamton area) got visited by Billy Clinton and everything is slowed down for head of state visitors and it has been taking almost an hour to post once. I hope that will speed up tonight.
