Moggy's tips for better airshow photography

cannon scanner

Has got a USB port so I suppose you could use one of the new VOIP type phones –via a long power cord—-via the internet, second thoughts give it a miss.
(VOIP–Voice Over Internet Priorety)

Recently bought one of the latest Cannon scanner’s. It is of the all singing all dancing types, ie. will scan of course, print directly on to disc/dvd,including a seperat insert for the mini disc (printable types) colour/b&w printer,has facility to copy slides-and-35mm negs with docking for several types of digital cards. The ink is in seperate tanks which can be replaced individualy and has a small flip up screen to view progress of your work. I think the model is MP760, and retails for about $450Aus. A tad exi, but for all the capabilities, probably goog value.

What, no space for a SIM card so you can use it as a mobile phone 😉

Moggy

Scanner.

Recently bought one of the latest Cannon scanner’s. It is of the all singing all dancing types, ie. will scan of course, print directly on to disc/dvd,including a seperat insert for the mini disc (printable types) colour/b&w printer,has facility to copy slides-and-35mm negs with docking for several types of digital cards. The ink is in seperate tanks which can be replaced individualy and has a small flip up screen to view progress of your work. I think the model is MP760, and retails for about $450Aus. A tad exi, but for all the capabilities, probably goog value.

My Canon G3 pushes the lens cap off by itself – clever!
Those Zenith Kodachromes in the loft? What’s the price nowadays for a scanner that “do” slides?

Like this, you mean?

That looks abot right 😀

Like this, you mean?

If you’re feeling ‘inadequate’ in the lens length department just nip down to B&Q & buy a 3′ length of grey drainpipe, fit a lens hood to one end, and then glue to the front of your camera over the lens.

Geoff.

Mines bigger than yours !!!!!

Canon is definitely the one too have. But try explaining to my wife the reasons for hankering after a EOS1D Mk2.

Any interested in thread with some real advice ? I would do one.

I have a Sony with a huge Lens of about 10 miles long 😀 😀 It still works very well.

Nah… Canon is in, NIKON is out! :diablo: :p :rolleyes:

Andy

Bah! 1976 Zenit-E with all those lovely M42 lenses. Weighs about 16 tons and has never failed me!! (Oh yes, 1960’s Pentax SV also with M42 – top kit!)

Like Morse said about his Jag MkII “It’s PRE-Electric, that’s why I like it!”

PS Wal-Mart’s 35mm developing is so utterly cheap!! They don’t do enprints, though. 🙂

Digital? What’s that 😀

Rob / Kansan

1. Get the biggest and most expensive digital camera money can buy. Canon is in, Zenith is out.

Nah… Canon is in, NIKON is out! :diablo: :p :rolleyes:

Andy

Curses the secret is out!!

From touring the recent air displays and seeing several forumites clicking away, how about these handy tips:

1. Get the biggest and most expensive digital camera money can buy. Canon is in, Zenith is out.
2. Have a HUGE grey telephoto lens (Black is out of fashion). Undertake a course of weight training to hold said lens up.
3. Have a super motor drive, 3,000 FPS at least..
4. Point roughly at aircraft, finger on button and click away, ensuring that you take at least 100 shots as the aircraft flies past. For pictures at Old Warden, Fairford and Legends, take 200-300 shots of each pass
5. Get home, download digital images. Pick the best one, erase the remaining 790,883 images…
6. Flood the internet forums with your handywork. For events at Old Warden, ensure that a good proportion of images are the same as the ones we saw last week, and the week before etc etc. Sit back and await adulation from fellow forumites and receive almost certain elevation to professional snapper status…
7. Open up a website, so that even more people can see your handywork.

By the way, all you snappers better watch out. I saw a chap at Woodchurch yesterday taking pictures of the displaying aircraft on his mobile phone! 😮

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before some sensitive souls take exception, said of course, with tongue firmly in cheek :diablo:

whats an enprint? sorry too lazy at this moment to google.

Don’t bother Jagan.

An ‘enprint’ dates from the days of 120 / 127 format amateur film cameras.

Tiny contact prints were the norm (same size as the neg) and then to make more profit the processors introduced enprints – short for ENlarged PRINTS – which were about the size of a standard postcard.

This thread was actually a test thread left over from when we were working on the new fora and can be safely ignored. What I know about photography isn’t very enlightening.

Moggy 🙂

1) Always remember to take the lens cap off

2) Ask your chemist to do ‘enprints’. These are bigger and look better in your album

Moggy

whats an enprint? sorry too lazy at this moment to google.

The scales have fallen from my eyes, and my life will be forever the richer from this moment on.

Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. 🙂

Thanks for that moggy