Another fantastic colection Fred how much is the tour and was the trip all in expencive to do

Looks another fantastic place to visit

Regards

Peter

The tour Bus was 8 chuffers and lasted about 1 hour so worth the sum I would say.

There was 6 of us so that kept the costs down, al Hotels were ETAP’s so again that helped on expenses.

Fred.

As the sun moves around ealier in the day at this time of the year we headed back to the Terminal about 11-30 and spent some time on the old Spectators Terrace.

I had always wanted to see what the Airside Photo Tourbus was like and spend some time at the Runway intersection so all of us went on the 1pm Tour.

Unfortunately the sun at this time is very high so photos were a bit of a struggle, the first Bus goes out at 11am which would have been better for sun angle but this 1pm Tour had the best chance of shooting the interesting Widebodies.

In the 30 minutes or so standing at the special spot next to the Runways there were two Swiss A330’s, Singapore 777-300, Thai A340-600 and three mid size Airbuses so it was a good time to go.

It’s mainly the Widebodies that use Runway 16 so you can go out there at times and not shoot hardly anything departing on that Runway. All of these except the Swiss A320 departed from Runway 16.

Fred.

This T Cook A330 was under going maintenance and departed a few hours later.

On the Photobus looking back at the Terminal.

This is the Double Decker bus for the Phototour.

Very big aircraft and avery long departure run.

Airbourne just at the right spot .

A different angle of the old Terrace seen through the windows of the Bus.

In answer to the questions above we arrived at Zurich late on Tuesday 22nd and departed at 1pm on Thursday 24th.

I shot the landers on Runway 14 using a Canon 400D and Canon 100-400mm lense through the fence, there were no holes in it so by carefully placing the lense flush against the fence wire and shooting square on it tuned out the wire.

I deliberately moved about 100 yards further along from where I originally started shooting as the fence curved slightly which gave me a more square on view to the kind of backgrounds I was looking for, you don’t want to be shooting at an angle through these fences otherwise it will show as dull patches.

Here is a couple of views of where I was standing, this spot really is best with a 100-400mm lense as you are shooting most aircraft about 300mm and the big lense is push-pull which helps.

Canon’s 70-300mm IS lense turns to focus and you would have to be careful not to let it touch the fence or it would tend to lose sharp focus on the subject. It could be done though with care.

Fred.

Here are another 8 landers from this afternoon.

Fred.

Yes RAB that one and the Blue Panorama 767 were probably the best two displays of the day.

It’s so much better to get these kind of shots with arrivals than departures, worth getting wet for to get soemthing a little different. At least rain means you don’t lose your photos to heat haze.

Fred.

I’m definetly tempted to go for one, mibbe on one of those 12 month deals, the 10D is still good though even at 6mp.

Gonna have to finish paying for this baby first though, might catch you on the mound sometime soon Fred as I shoot some moving action…

That’s some piece of kit you must be able to get great footage with it, a nice sunny day at Prestwick with plenty of Freighters would give it a good runout from the Mound.

I bought a Rode external Microphone for my Hi8 Camcorder but found that it recommends going into the Camcorder software and reducing the VU to about 75% but I don’t have that facility and after some testing at PIK I find the soundtrack too rumbly.

I’m really interested in an HD Camcorder but it’s outwith my budget just now. My Hi8 has 400 lines but the HD ones are 1080 lines, I’m itching to see actual footage from one of these to compare. An item for the future.

Fred.

Very nice Fred, you’ve got me thinking of getting a 400D now.

Good stuff Fred, I almost came out of retirement myself this week. Hmmm… A guy I work with got a 400D last week, seems pretty good, if very small.

Maybe, just maybe… ?

Hello Guys,
DJ when I was thinking of buying a 400D about 4 months ago a friend sent me this link for price comparison which still works, I found it handy to check some places out to see if they had it in stock.

http://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod191.html

Ren the body is much smaller than the likes of a 10D to 30D and looks tiny on a Canon 100-400mm but I’ve had no issues with it adapting to the reduced size compared to what I was using before and it’s my No1 camera particularly with it being 10MP files.

I’m impressed with the censor cleaning it’s very effective. When I was checking out my shots from last Tuesday I found a noticeable dirt spot on one and immediately checked forward a few to see if it was in the ones that followed but it was gone pretty much straight away.

Every time you power off it cleans the censor, it comes up saying “Cleaning censor” on the LCD.

Fred