“As a photographer its impossible to get good shots,”
If you are a photographer you should be more than capable of getting good shots.
It’s the same old chestnut….it’s a Museum, not a photographic studio filled with planes.
The land warfare hall at Duxford is very dark, but this doesn’t detract from the exhibits. I’d say the same about the BoB Hall.
Phantex,
You don’t mention if you have been or are indeed a photographer but I imagine you are not as you have chosen to only edit part of one sentence. All the aircraft within the area between the Ju87 and the Gladiator with the exception perhaps of the Bf109 and CR42 are poorly lit from single spots. In order to take photograps in near darkness you need ambient light on the subject in some degree and one single spot showing a wheel well does not illuminate the aircraft. Particularly the He111, Bolingbrook and Ju88 can hardly be seen beyond the spotlit undersides. If you can’t see it then you can’t photograph it! Photography with an SLR is dependant on metering by seperate meter or inbuilt sensor which relies on there being some light otherwise by using BULB setting it is guess work.
I am sure many people who may or may not own an SLR or a pocket sized camera would like to go away with a record of their day so ‘Its not a photographic studio’ is somewhat lame.
Regardless of my photographic argument when you can’t see an aircraft how can you study it. I am sure many modellers also visit the museum to view (and dare I say photograph) details on the exhibits. In the darkness there are no details to be seen and why illuminate a wheel well only?
It might be a museum but you would like to think you could see what was in it. My argument is, not necessarily that it is poorly lit, but that it has supposedly been improved yet over half the overhead lights were not on and those that were seemed to be under low light. None of the other buildings are like this.
Elsewhere the FAA Flight Deck is mentioned which I visited a few years ago. At least by studying the show you can establish an order in which the exhibits are lit and obtain some atmospheric shots in time with the show even if you run through it a couple of times.
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