Sounds like a good idea actually, would be useful in the Bomber Command hall and other places where the aircraft are crammed in. If it wasn’t for the light conditions getting a good pic of the Blenheim wouldn’t be that bad, especially with the upstairs gallery meaning you can get some good pics if your camera is set up properly, just about all of the aircraft in the Battle of Britain hall are in a good position for photos if the light is alright or you change the settings on the camera, especially from the overhead gallery if you’ve got a good zoom. I was quite happy with this pic I took from the overhead gallery of the Blenheim, bit dark but I like it

Cheers, i’ll try it out

It should help, thing is with my digital camera it really doesn’t like indoors unless theres lots of natural light like the hangars at Duxford, lighting tends to make things look more orangey, perhaps using GeoffK’s advice here http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=874629&postcount=4 it should be able to help. It is a really nice museum, I love the different atmosphere you get in different parts of the museum (The upstairs WWI and medals room have a quite weird 1970’s atmosphere to me, possibly because nothing up there seems to have changed since then).

If you ask me theres only two things that would make the museum better – get more staff in, and increase the light levels in the Bomber Command and Battle of Britain halls (well, maybe that’s three). In the Battle of Britain Hall I suppose it wouldn’t be too much to ask if they put the lighting on back to the same level it used to be (compare it to what it’s like on the Sunderland end of the hall!) between the shows.

Haha funnily enough my little brother is scared of it, he once refused to go because of it and the time after that he had to close his eyes, look the other way and hold his mums hand all through that bit! Even today he was walking past it pretty fast.

Shame to hear about that, personally I preferred the Battle of Britain hall before the show came in, not just because of the light conditions I think it looked better and had more atmosphere (too bad I can barely remember it now). Had an e-mail from the museum say if any parts are closed they should be able to open it for a short time but I won’t get my hopes up about it.