Norseman looks lovely!:)
Is the Tracker a potential flyer or a museum exhibit?
The Grumman S-2F Tracker is far from a potential flyer, as she has been outside for more than 40 years. Initially she was outside the original Aviodome Museum at Schiphol Airport, until the museum moved to Lelystad Airport and became the Aviodrome.
Schiphol about 1975
Lelystad 2009
There is another former Royal Netherlands Navy Tracker in the Aviodrome museum, which is in a much better shape. The livery is a bit odd, as she has been a training exhibit in a technical school for several years.:o
😀 Wonderful stuff,that Norseman looks a real character,just needs to be dirty so it looks like it’s been somewhere a bit naughty and has a story to tell.
This is how she was found in France; dirty enough? 🙂
A few more Vikings: Rotterdam Airport 1965
And a more recent (2010) picture of the Varsity at the IWM at Duxford
A few pics from my archives
Autair Viking G-AGRW at Schiphol Airport 1966
Varsity T.1 at Biggin Hill September 1970
Jur, was that shot JPEG or RAW? If it was RAW have you applied any noise reduction?
I always shoot RAW and process in Nikon Capture NX2. For this shot no noise reduction was applied. Neither for this shot at ISO 2000.
The TS requested advice for a camera with a “full size sensor and a modestly wide angle lens”. In my opinion a “full size sensor” is one of 36x24mm. The sensors of bridge camera’s (usually 1/25″ CCD’s = 5.75×4.31mm) don’t even come close to this and they cannot be compared.
The cheapest way (although not “cheap”) into a DSLR with a genuine full size sensor seems to be a secondhand Nikon D700. This could be complemented with a modestly priced Nikkor AFD 35mm/2.0 lens.
Example is a picture made with a D700 and Nikkor AFS 28-70/2.8 at 38mm and ISO 640; handheld /125sec at f/5.6
100% crop
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