Tested using an ND filter at Cosford in order to get better twirly bits on the front of the aeroplanes I photographed – with mixed results.
To those of you not in the know, a Fuji S5000 shouldn’t be able to take pictures like this. Frankly, if the weather had been BETTER, I don’t think it would have been possible with an ND4 filter. Brighter days are going to require an 8 or higher.
Heavily processed shots follow:
By: RobAnt - 21st June 2005 at 17:39
or should I perhaps invest in a waterproof housing for the camera
Probably both !!!
The weather on most airfields seems to go from one extreme to the other in moments, in my experience. Especially along the crowd line 🙁
By: RobAnt - 21st June 2005 at 17:36
My ND filter holder required – ermm – fixing (scoured out friction fitting) to my telephoto adapter – you know the Fuji one.
I’ve found you can get a cokin screw ring fitting that can be used on the standard lens hood that comes with the camera – but no teleconverter has a screw thread for fitting a filter 🙁
I did try getting some way to fit a filter between the lenshood and the teleconverter, but I couldn’t find a solution that would fit – because of the lip on the inside of the teleconverters mounting screw thread.
If anyone does have a more elegant solution than mine (which was simply to take a cokin filter holder, and make it friction fit around the outside of the teleconverter) then please let me know.
By: Paul F - 21st June 2005 at 11:55
Thanks for the tip
Hi Rob,
Having had my S5000 for a year, I have generally been pleased with results, both for family snaps and for airshows etc – after all, at that stage it was £200 for an S5000, or £750+ for a pukka D-SLR, and I couldn’t justify the extra spondoolies to Mrs F.
Given last years mediocre weather, I hadn’t had a problem with the S5000’s ISO limitation, and had taken some pleasing airshow piccies. However at Dunsfold Wing’s & Wheels a few weeks back I had a number of otherwise good shots spoiled by the frozen propellors, despite doing all I could to force a slower shutter speed 🙁 .
Hadn’t thought of fitting a ND filter to overcome the excess of sunlight – d’oh 😮 . (Too many years peering through 35mm SLRs where there never seemed to be enough light to use grain-free films, rather than ever having to worry about too much light I suppose).
Off down my local photoshop before Legends…..or should I perhaps invest in a waterproof housing for the camera ;).
Will it be at Legends – the decent weather that is?
Paul F
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