A few pics of G-BBMX (WP924 / 17).

As an air traffic controller at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, I handled the second prototype of the Mi-12 (CCCP-21142) in May 1971 on arrival for a fuelstop on its way to Le Bourget. It was a truely awesome sight!

It had also made a fuelstop at Groningen Airport Eelde that day; see this link http://www.crosswinds.net/~wolbrink for a picture and select Eelde 1970-1975 photo history.

Greater the fps the greater the probability in getting the exact frame you want and in many cases: a frame thats better than you expected. That is why they make cameras with 10fps and thats is why D3 is huffing and puffing about 9fps (even though its 9fps JPEG in DX (not FX) mode)

Incorrect! In FX mode the D3 delivers up to 9fps, in DX mode up to 11fps.
Apart from that, with good timing and experience 3fps can deliver great results. Way in the past I’ve even managed to get good results without any kind of motordrive. My present camera’s can deliver up to 8fps, but I hardly ever need anything faster than about 3.5fps.

And yes, Nikon allows the 70-200 with TC to work with both AFS and VR!

Julian Firth, captain of G-APSA, mailed me that they will be in Lelystad (NL) again on Friday 14th September and from there on to the Hamburg Airshow.

See this list of participants http://www.aviation-community.de/index.php/airport-days-hamburg/erwartete-flugzeuge/

Thought this might interest a few forumites. It’s a scale model (1:300) of RAF Pocklington circa 1942-45. Built by a guy called Bernard Ross, assisted by Graham Puckering, they brought it to Breighton at the weekend and set it out in one of the hangars. Fascinating to look at, I gather its a work in progress which they hope to add lights to in due course. How wide spread is this hobby I wonder, and do other examples exist…?

Simply beautiful! It’s only a pity that they put the runway number 07 upside down. It should be readable in the landing direction.

The KLM livery is applied to G-APSA for this movie http://www.idtv.nl/film/development/brideflight.html

A few pictures I took at Lelystad Aerodrome on September 1st:

It all depends on the lighting conditions and the ISO setting. In the old film days (even without a lightmeter) the “sunny f16 rule” was a very convenient means to estimate the correct exposure.

This is how it works:
1. set the shutterspeed closest to 1/ISO; e.g. ISO 400 set shutterspped to 1/500
2. in bright sun (no clouds) with deep shadows set aperture at f16
3. sunny conditions with some clouds set aperture at f11
4. cloudy with faint shadows set aperture at f8

Of course any variation of the same exposure value can be set; e.g. 1/500 at f8 can be replaced by 1/250 at f11, 1/1000 at f5.6, 1/125 at f16, etc.

Based on the above, 1/400 at f13 could have been right for sunny conditions with a few clouds when the ISO had been set at 400. With lower ISO values the pictures would have been underexposed.

Hope this helps to evaluate the problem.

I have one little query, is it beneficial to shoot in RAW?, My D70s was useless on Jpeg and the only way to get quality shots with it was to shoot in RAW 100% of the time, on first impressions the D200 in Jpeg mode is awesome and not that much different from the RAW shots.

John,

I’m glad to have been of help to you.
I always shoot RAW as this gives me the widest range in postprocessing capabilities, especially white balance, exposure correction and colour modes.

For RAW (NEF) development I prefer to use Nikon Capture NX, which provides me with the best picture quality possible. Another advantage of NX is that it makes full use of your in-camera settings. Programs like Rawshooter, Adobe Lightroom and ACR only read the white balance settings but disregard all other in-camera settings. Also the incorporated U-point technology is a real benefit, which saves me from applying the much more complex layers options in Photoshop.

The only disadvantage of NX is that it is rather slow compared to the others and you really need to have a minimum of 2gb memory installed in your PC. When I’m in a hurry with a large batch of pictures, I sometimes use Adobe Lightroom.