Having finished photographing the Sopwith Dolphin at Hendon on Saturday I had a quick wander around the rest of the museum to try a bit of in-camera Panorama photography using a Sony Alpha A580. I wasn’t holding out much hope of anything decent because as it’s a camera function you have no control over settings, that’s 1/60sec/between F4.5-5.6/ISO1600, and the lighting in the various halls is far from ideal. The camera did struggle to auto focus in the darkness of the Bomber Hall and I didn’t even try the BoB Hall. The Pano Mode was designed mainly for landscape shots and being close in to an object, the in-camera stitching struggles and you end up with some rather large jaggies. See Chinook rotor blade. Although Jpeg images, they were first processed in Camera RAW, for better control over exposure/fill light/brightness etc and finished in Elements 9.
This is the image above, and the darkest I had to work with, straight out of the camera and just re-sized for the web.
Brian
By: Robert Whitton - 6th April 2012 at 12:28
You inspire us all. Not only to take better photos but also to re-visit aviation museums.
My photo is the aircraft I most wanted to see in 1969
By: Mercurius - 6th April 2012 at 11:13
Great photos – but how did you manage to find the place so quiet? I was there yesterday (Thursday), and it was swarming with noisy kids. My first visit for a year or so, but I was dismayed to see a simulation ‘ride’ in one hall and a sign announcing a “4D experience” in another. If this trend continues, it could become an equivalent of the Science Museum.
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March 19, 2012 at 7:43 pm