Yes really nice videos Jason.
I was also interested in the ‘technical side’ of shooting as you controlled both the cameras zoom and the panning superbly. I appreciate how tough it is to follow fast moving planes as tightly as you are managing to do it!
Are you on a pro tripod with a good fluid head? I can see that the XL2 zoom hunts for focus occasionally…interesting to see it do that when a plane passes over a bit of ‘foreground’ like the tail of another plane. However it copes really well overall and the image stabilization on that camera obviously sorts out some things, even if ‘sideways panning’ is really hard for any IS lens to tackle.
I’m currently trying to shoot video with manual lenses of 300 and 600mm (on a Canon 5D2) and get just too much ‘jiggling’ for many shots to be really acceptable, so that’s why I found you videos very revealing….oh and the planes were simply stunning as well of course!. Thanks again for posting here.