Today is one of my last days as an unemployed person, and I figured i’d go to the airport to celebrate! The weather was expected to be overcast but dry. We got just that, but it was very humid making for some very cool vapour and contrail shots!
my first shot of a KLM 777
By: MapleLeaf_330 - 18th February 2004 at 20:22
Great job!
By: tenthije - 18th February 2004 at 17:51
From the spot i made these photos of a 100mm will be enought for planes the size of DC10 and more. Just side-on though or perhaps at a slight angle for the 747s and A340s
If this runway is used for landings you can get into the final approach. There 100mm will be enough for everything including the dorniers and ATRs.
The spot near the taxiway is also very good for people with a small lense, but don’t expect many heavies here. The only heavies here are cargo planes. Other then that lots and lots of KLM Cityhopper Fokkers and most European airlines.
Check my website in the sig for more on spotting at Schiphol. It is getting quite complete now!
BTW, my camera is a Sony F717. It has a lense of 38-190mm. The digital zoom can double that, but i never use it.
By: greekdude1 - 18th February 2004 at 17:30
You can take shots from the observation deck with that kind of zoom. Those take off pics that Peter has posted is adjacent to one of the main runways, you can probably get away with it with the bigger jets. I have a 100-300 but really can’t remember how much of the macro I was using. There’s another spot where you see most of the narrowbodies taxiing over a bridge where you don’t need that much power. I would contact Peter and see what he is up to, even though he has a job now. He took me to all the spots. If you do wind up doing that, be prepared to do a lot of walking.
By: Jeanske_SN - 18th February 2004 at 12:33
Whee! Ok I’m coming to Amsterdam soon! I only have 115 mm zoom 🙁 that’s probably WAY too less, are there any places wherre this is enough?
By: Britannia - 18th February 2004 at 09:03
Cool picys, 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
By: greekdude1 - 18th February 2004 at 03:34
Great shots Peter. Taken from my favourite spot, no doubt. Good to still see NW Trijets.
By: EAL_KING - 18th February 2004 at 00:08
really kool pics peter well done:D
By: ACA345 - 16th February 2004 at 03:19
Impressive, photos 1,2,and 8…:eek: 😮 😮 😀 😀 😀
Well done…
By: EGNM - 16th February 2004 at 01:43
great pictures there – after last weds trip i think another visit may be in order in the future!
By: steve rowell - 14th February 2004 at 20:56
Great bunch of shots, love those MD tri- jets
By: A330Crazy - 14th February 2004 at 20:19
Great Shots Pete! The first two are excellent! All have a nice effect in them caused by the weather.
Nice one! 🙂
By: tenthije - 14th February 2004 at 18:38
no i mean 200mm in “optical zoom”, and yes i did need the full extent of it. And for the smaller planes up to 300mm would be handy.
By: wannabe pilot - 14th February 2004 at 18:30
Originally posted by tenthije
My camera has a zoom of 50 to 200mm, or thereabouts.
And did you have to use the full extent of your zoom for those pics? 50-200mm is around 10X in ‘optical zoom’ terms isn’t it?
By: Airline owner - 14th February 2004 at 18:28
Photos 1 and 9 are my favourite…denifitly a good viewing bit there
By: tenthije - 14th February 2004 at 18:24
The 777 went to Nairobi.
There are indeed excellent places to shot photos at Schiphol. You have already seen my site, another site you can try is www.schipholview.nl. They are really informative as well.
My camera has a zoom of 50 to 200mm, or thereabouts. The 3rd shot, the Martinair 747, was done with more by cropping a large resolution photo. It does show though as the quality is less than the others.
By: wannabe pilot - 14th February 2004 at 18:19
Nice pictures! Particularly the first KLM 777 and the last KLM MD-11. How much zoom do you use to get the pictures like that?
By: robc - 14th February 2004 at 18:12
KLM colors look good on the 777
By: grahamskipton - 14th February 2004 at 18:09
Peter, love those pics, especially 1/9 the 777. Hopefully when the weather picks up I’l try and make a day trip to Amsterdam for some photo’s. I presume there are good photo oportunities around AMS judging by your excellent array of photo’s on here and your website ?
G
By: tenthije - 14th February 2004 at 18:01
9/9
Thanks Airline-Owner for your remark. I don’t know where this plane is flying too, not yet anyway. I am looking it up, but the Schiphol website is today even slower than it normally is.
By: tenthije - 14th February 2004 at 17:55
8/9
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