My second visit to IWM London following its re-opening in July 2014 after its £40m refurbishment of the Atrium and World War One Galleries. Didn’t make it into the WWI galleries last time because of the queues so it was the first place to visit this time. Got there for doors opening at 10.00am and following the shootings in France a few days before, the bag searches were a bit more extensive and took a bit longer. Don’t remember going into the WWI galleries before the refurbishment so can’t compare then and now but the new gallery seemed well laid out with a lot of reading matter and video displays amongst the large objects, artifacts and display cases. As with my last visit, by 11.00am the place was crawling with school parties.
Sony ILCE-A7rII + Sony FE16-35mm f4 ZA OSS Vario-Tessar T* Lens. Uncompressed RAW, manual settings.
Brian
By: Mike J - 19th November 2015 at 21:30
I was rather disappointed to see that it was displayed with no protection when I was last at Lambeth. Visitors were touching it and leaning against it, and nobody was being told not to by the staff. Not an appropriate way to preserve such a unique ‘time capsule’ artifact for future generations.
By: Kuno - 19th November 2015 at 21:22
Thank you for that carification, Brian – now back to aircraft 🙂
By: Pen Pusher - 19th November 2015 at 17:30
Kuno
It’s at Lambeth.
This is it at Duxford
Brian
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th November 2015 at 17:26
Interesting to see the A6M – is the ex-ATAIU-SEAC cockpit section still there or is it at Duxford/in storage?
Was still at Duxford last week.
By: Kuno - 19th November 2015 at 17:09
@ Brian – correct me if I am wrong, but it appears to me that the photos of the Chevrolet WA were taken when it was in temporary storage at Duxford. Could you confirm that it is now back in Lambeth?
@ Moggy – I have researched once the story of that particular truck and wanted to publish a small book about it (naturally including also other related things). Never managed to complete the project – maybe since I started to become distracted by vintage aircraft more and more over the time. Thanks for remembering me that there is still an open task 😉
By: Sabrejet - 19th November 2015 at 16:59
Interesting to see the A6M – is the ex-ATAIU-SEAC cockpit section still there or is it at Duxford/in storage?
|It’s on display at Duxford.
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By: Moggy C - 19th November 2015 at 12:59
Was the Chevrolet WA of the Long Range Desert Group
It is indeed. By a long way my favourite exhibit in the entire museum, I have spent a lot of time just looking at that vehicle and imagining what it was involved in. It has a ‘time capsule’ feel about it.
Worth a trip to Lambeth on its own.
Moggy
By: DaveF68 - 19th November 2015 at 09:36
Interesting to see the A6M – is the ex-ATAIU-SEAC cockpit section still there or is it at Duxford/in storage?
By: AlanR - 19th November 2015 at 08:23
Spitfire seems to be suffering from “Blackbirditis”, or is that effect enhanced by the camera ?
By: Pen Pusher - 19th November 2015 at 07:39
Clicky my website link in post #3 for piccie of the Chevrolet.
Brian
By: Kuno - 19th November 2015 at 06:07
Not really aircraft related: Was the Chevrolet WA of the Long Range Desert Group (which was temporarily stored at Duxford for the duration of the modernization of IWM London) brought back to London and is it on display again?
By: Pen Pusher - 18th November 2015 at 21:15
A few more here – http://www.lowlightfotography.eu/12-iwm-ldn-16nov15/4591133987?preview=Y
Tekki bit 😀
I was using the new(ish) Sony A7rII which has a 42.4mp back-illuminated sensor, which increases the amount of light the sensor can capture improving low-light performance and with a recent firmware update for uncompressed RAW image capture changing the file size from 41Mb for compressed to 81Mb for uncompressed RAW. The larger file size along with back-illuminated sensor means more detail can be recorded and extracted from darker shadows.
Brian
By: Roobarb - 18th November 2015 at 20:16
Absolutely stunning photography Brian, you really have excelled this time. I would imagine the lighting conditions to be “challenging” but you seem to have made it look easy! I’ve really enjoyed looking at these.
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