First pics with new camera

Does anyone know where that ATP may have came from? Had anyone else seen it that day (this Saturday, the 20th) It has really been making me wonder, as there have been no announcements of any new BA flights and it is the second one I have seen recently.

Mark, I haven’t a clue why it was here. It is the second one I have seen in sevral weeks, at first I thought it could have been the Manchester flight, but then Eastern airways have taken that one off BA’s hands.

Any idea what the BA ATP was doing there wannabe?

Very good pics, definitly coming along nicely!

And finally, a new reg for me! Britsh European Dash 8 G-JEDX. This is probably my favourite one 😀

BA Citiexpress ATP G-MAJM

Ryanair 738 EI-DAJ

Easyjet 737 G-OFRA

G-OLOD

A few more pics from Saturday morning, atlast some sunshine! The same mistakes again, taking the pics too early, but not as early as the other day, so I will hopefully get gradually better.

The first one was a very lucky site, a private 7771:D It is actually Mid East Jet and it’s reg is N777AS. Sorry about the bit of sunglare in the corner. You can also see a Ryanair that has taken off at the top of the picture.

VIA Tu154M landing at BSL on a weekly charter flight from varna this afternoon (qirlinepics seems to be down again, so I’m just sticking it up here…)

I’m after a special scheme 200 and a new scheme 800 (Ryanair). 🙂

OK, I look forward to seeing them. It looks like I will be up there again tomoorow morning for some more pics. You might get the 6pm(ish) Asiana arrival.

I think it was full zoom, if not it was more than half.

Hoping to depart for STN within the next 30 minutes – I’ll post the pics later. 🙂

A very nice pic there. Was that full 10X zoom? I accidentally had full zoom (3X) on a Britannia 757 and it was enough so that it zoomed in just on the wings as it flew over me, so I probably can try a few close-ups, I just didn’t wanna try anything too special on my first go.

Yeh – mine has 10x optical, equivalent to 380mm lens. The extra zoom is good for closeups…..

Only 3X, but as I said it was this that made me decide amongst the ohters, as digital zoom just downgrades the quality of the picture. I could only get more optical zoom by going way upto the top of the range and pay something like £600, a bit too much when I only earn £25 a week! However, saying this, on the approach shots I actually had to end up zooming out even with the 737’s as they began to fill the screen.

How much optical zoom?

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I know the weather was not great. It’s typical though, wednesday was really nice, today has been very hot but yesterday it wll clouded over in the afternoon, just when I was planning to take some shots. As most of the shots were also early evening, it has also made them quite dark, I think it’s either best to get them when it’s nice and bright, or nearer sunset to get some silouhettes, not in the middle. In the end I got a Goodmans G-shot 3020Z with 3.2 million pixels and also optical zoom, the one thing that made me decide to get this one rather than some of the other bottom-of-the-range cameras, as most only had digital zoom, which gives the photos bad quality.

The weather will be the biggest problem – the light isn’t great and I’ve got very similar shots taken in the evening. Nice sunshine is what you need for good pics. That said, I’d like to go to STN and get some sunset shots of the planes shillouetted – had a beautiful one round here the other day, oranges, blues, purples, yellows with some whispy cloud formations – would have looked superb with a plane in them.

Excellent snaps WP. I thinks whats making you think that they aren’t great is the fact that the weather isn’t up to its best?

Cheers for posting mate.