Duxford

Hi

I too must agree with this, thanks to all the posters. I realy must make an effort and get to this event in the near future.

Broken?

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No i have is set on all of em, one i cant understand is the stearman pic because the sun was behind me and at 250/sec should’nt have comme out so dark. Here are some that didnt get away

I had a look at the efix data and that photo was shot at 1/250 and the f-stop was 32. I guess here that the camera has locked focus as you panned, but when you took the photo the focus point wasn’t on the aircraft, thus has exposed for the blue sky. To prevent this, use the center focus point and in theory the exposure will always be on the aircraft.

A test to see if the IT is working is to turn it off and see if the shots get better, the same or worse. A while back I thought my 100-400 was playing up, so I turned it off and found out how good it really was. With the IS off, I got all most nothing worth keeping.

Raw

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Why not try it?

I’ve certainly found it better when the light’s fading, it seems to retain far more detail in the shadows. Any areas of a single colour (particularly red) come out much much better in RAW, the best example I have of this is the spinner on IAC161 which looked crap in a JPG but lovely in a 16 bit TIFF derived from a RAW image. They scale up a great deal better too.

The downside is, of course, space and the time taken to save the blighters. However, you’ve got a tool that can save RAW as fast as the proverbial rat out of the proverbial pipe, so why not use the full capability of your camera? I clearly remember phoning you from East Kirkby after filling a 2Gb card in a very short time saying “sod RAW”, but I’ve had chance to experiment since and I’m convinced that the results are better. I’ve tried it on the 10D and you can quite frankly forget about capturing RAW at a reasonable shooting rate because it can’t keep up.

Rob

Since I got the 20D, I have had to eat my words with raw. I now use it a lot,. The speed at which the camera takes and saves to the card is much much faster than my D60. I now only use jpeg when I need a lot of photos in a hurry. You do though need more card space, but as they are now so cheap it’s not a prob. I find that the results using raw are much better and it’s no more time at the PC if you process using a batch programme.

As for storage, I bet this same thread came up when 35mm first hit the traps. Store it well and all will be well, don’t and you will have aproblem.

See you all in July!!!!!!

Camels are loud

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Of all the aircraft I have been beside, only the camel made me wish I had ear plugs!

Cf05

Hi

Here’s a couple from last time as a start.

CH 2005

Hi

I’m going, (3 gigs worth of cards).