The best I’ve got I’m afraid John. Not planning another visit to Hendon until the end of the year. There is a Hucks at Duxford, but usually parked behind the Nimrod so not easy to photograph but I’ll have a look this weekend. The other is at Shuttleworth, but looking at the weather forecast for Sunday, I may not be venturing out.
Brian
Philip.
You get two filters with the lens. One is clear and the other is a 4x Neutral Density filter. The one shown loose in the photo below. The clear one is stored in the lens hood. With all the practice I did, I found that with the clear filter, any images with the sky in it were nearly always blown out or over exposed. The photos taken at Old Warden were with the 4x ND filter fitted. According to Sony the filters are part of the lens system and one of them has to be fitted for the lens to work properly.
I actually have both my cameras, the A450 & A550, set with the Saturation at -1 because the colours from the sensor are a bit to bright.
Brian
UPDATE 2/Flying Shots
Just a few more from the flying during the afternoon. The A380 is still impressive doing its routine.
Brian
*UPDATED/Statics*
A Few From The Static Display
As per usual with Farnborough, the static display is not set out with the photographer in mind so you have to make good of a bad situation. There appeared to be more aircraft on display in the Finmeccanica compound that the rest of the airfield. The highlight of the static’s for me was the McKinnon G21G Turbo Goose/N221AG. One of those aircraft I had seen a photo of but never thought I would see in the flesh, as it were. Photos in the order they were taken.
Brian
Day 3
DAY 3
An even earlier start with a pick up at 06.00 and on arrival had a wander around the TFC hangar with my camera and watched the choreography of extracting aeroplanes from a hangar and out onto the flight line. Due to the predicted heat wave, I decided to play safe and seek shade for the afternoon flying. With a good supply of liquids, I parked my self on the east side of the brick building down by ARCo & crash gate A. A big hello to Tim and Barry who I used to work with many years ago at RAF Finningley and met up with.
With the flying for the day finished and the public leaving, it was a question of how many airframes could you squeeze into the smallest space possible.
Brian
Day 2
Apologies for the delay in completing this thread but over the Legends weekend I developed a little bit of a toothache which developed into a big bit of toothache, so not really in the mood for doing anything, and following some root canal work, feeling much better now.
Anyhoo
DAY 2
Friday morning and many, many thanks the Greg, my chauffeur for the weekend, and the start of the early morning starts with a pick up at 07.00. By 07.30 we were at Duxford and out on the airfield, a team from GMTV were presenting a feature on the Flying Legends and the weather reports from the flight line.
Following its DA flight, the Corsair developed a bit of a leak which was quickly fixed by The Fighter Collection engineers.
Although the museum was closing at this point, there was still a lot of flying going on and I made my way from the M11 end towards the TFC office.
At this point I was standing at the crowd barrier outside Hangar 2 and I was asked politely by a member of museum staff if I could just stand up by the office till the paying customers had left. I actually put my camera away and just sat and watched the Nimrod, Polikarpov and Spitfire displaying.
Brian
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