Sorry no experience with the with the ‘DO’ version of the 70mm – 300mm ‘IS’ Canon lens, however I do use the other two mentioned, so if you do not mind I will make a couple of general comments based on my own experience.

From the perspective of taking ground too air pictures of aircraft, the best lens for the job is really down to the location in combination with size of the subject . To explain I will us two examples:

(a) Going to an airfield such as ’Old Warden’, I have found the 70 -300mm Zoom to be a satisfactory performer.

(b) If we then go to an airfield such as Duxford, the aforementioned Zoom will be much more limiting. The 100 – 400mm will come into its own with its greater focal length.

Having made the above comments, you will always have situations when you will find yourself wishing for a longer focal length lens. When it comes down to it, you have no such thing as the perfect lens!

I have no doubt that the ‘DO’ version of the Classic 70 – 300mm will be good performer, it would need to be at the price, is it the lens for you? Only you can answer that one, certainly I would be happy own one if I had a few spare pounds!

Regards

Eric

To be honest you have no such thing as a right answer to your question, it is always a matter of playing off shutter speed against aperture, or to put it another way speed against depth of field. Even then, if the light is bad you may well have to open the aperture more than you would like!

The problem is you have so many variables, the subject, the background, the aperture, the speed; all will make a difference to the result!

If the day is dull with a lot of cloud, try for pictures with some ground based background, unless that is you have the change of a good close-up, in this case try to get as fast a shutter speed as is possible!

Regards

Eric

David

I suspect that the building of a simulator would be no great problem, always assuming a demand!

Regards

Eric

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BTW: Has the UK produced a film where it lost the battle? (none come to mind..) If it did, did it make money in the UK ?:

“The Long And The Short And The Tall” comes to mind!

Eric

BBMF Chipmunks

Fantastic shots all I see the BBMF Chipmunks did they fly at all?

James

Talking of Chipmunks, ‘WK518’ made a sedate arrival on Friday afternoon, ‘WG468’ came into sight much later, making a curving approach with a run and break that would put a few display pilots to shame, lovely to watch!

Eric

Ever thought of contacting Bombardier in Belfast? I’m sure there must be somone there who could tell you the quickest/safest way of taking it apart. Looks a good project, good luck.

Paul

Contact the Ulster Aviation Society, we moved our ‘330’ prototype just over a year ago, you will need to remove the following for transport:-

1> The tail fin / elevator assembly.
2> The wings.
3> Last but not least, the wing box complete with the engine nacelles.

Blue Skies

Eric

How do I avoid getting huge images when I attach or send photos in emails?

Thanks for any help.

If I understand you correctly, you wish to limit the size of the image when seen on the computer screen at the receiving end of an email. The way I do this is as follows:-

1> If necessary size the image to the required dimensions in an image editor (I use Adobe Elements), an example image size might be 10 by 8 inches at a resolution of 72 dpi.
2> in elements their is save for the web option in the “File pull down menu” double click on this option and a split dialog box will come up, set the required image quality and click on the save button. (Note the better the image, the bigger will be your image file, not such a problem in these days of Broadband, but at the same time it is still good etiquette to keep the size of the files you send within limits)
3> The saved file can be sent as an attachment to an email and will display at the size you defined.

Note – During the save process you will be asked to give the file a name, remember to do so!

Hope this is of some help!

Note: The attached image has been sized in this way, the file size is only 62.9KB, double click on the image and you will see that the image dimensions are limited.

Regards

Eric

My ticket says 1000Hrs, but on the day who knows when they will open the gates.

Regards

WF