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........ HUGE, first real experience with such a range...

Going to Portrush Airshow at the weekend hence the rental. Seems really fast to focus with great colour and sharpness in the photos. I have read the handy tutorial on here just would like to know anything else I should look out for specific to the 100-400mm?

Also there seems to be a little give between the mount and the lens, maybe 1mm or so is this normal, it is there on my other lenses but not as noticeable as they are not as big, anything to worry about?

Cheers Ian.
 
Donki said:
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........ HUGE, first real experience with such a range...

Going to Portrush Airshow at the weekend hence the rental. Seems really fast to focus with great colour and sharpness in the photos. I have read the handy tutorial on here just would like to know anything else I should look out for specific to the 100-400mm?

Also there seems to be a little give between the mount and the lens, maybe 1mm or so is this normal, it is there on my other lenses but not as noticeable as they are not as big, anything to worry about?

Cheers Ian.
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Yes a little play in the mount is normal.
 
Hi Ian. The movement on the mount is not unusual. Try and stop the lens down a bit if possible. Oh, and join a gym :)
 
Thanks guys, the movement is just more noticeable due to the size I guess, good to go then, I am figuring ISO200-400 F8?
 
I hope it focusses better than your other camera:lol:

Enjoy the show, look forward to seeing the pics, you should get some corkers with that.

Paul
 
i,ll keep an eye out for the guy with a huge lens
hopefully it stays dry for sunday when i go up
good luck
 
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Ergh, push n' pull jobbie :p
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Yeah, awkward but I am trying to get used to it.

When I was up last year I had nohing but the kit lens and felt a bit inferior lol! The weather is spposed to be ok on Sat better on Sun! If u see me come on over and if it does rain there is always the pub!!
 
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Hmm.. ISO 400 and f/8 should give you maybe 1/500s if it isn't heavily overcast. Should work for prop planes I guess (and get a bit of prop blur probably), but I'd consider going up to ISO 800 and 1/1000s for jets.

I would shoot on manual, and probably turn IS off.. then again I've never shot an airshow :) But shooting against the sky with the camera "helping" with the metering.. argh! :)
 
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Hmm.. ISO 400 and f/8 should give you maybe 1/500s if it isn't heavily overcast. Should work for prop planes I guess (and get a bit of prop blur probably), but I'd consider going up to ISO 800 and 1/1000s for jets.

I would shoot on manual, and probably turn IS off.. then again I've never shot an airshow :) But shooting against the sky with the camera "helping" with the metering.. argh! :)
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Cheers for this the 40D ISO 800 isnt bad I will be snapping away till I find whats getting me the best results, I got 2 days so can review how i get on :). The one thing that does concern me is the metering as you say against the sky, the tutorial says to overexspose a bit so il start a +1 and see what I get. Why IS off btw?

Thanks
 
Donki, well you can see the metering problem in your avatar pic ;) The sky will be much brighter than the object (plane) you want to expose correctly, so with the camera metering over a large area (evaluative metering), it will underexpose the plane as it's pulling too much sky into the equation. You can counter this by
a) setting exposure compensation, +1 1/3 stop would sound about right off the cuff
b) using a smaller evaluation are, like spot metering
However a) will only work if you frame all your shots similarly and b) will only work if the plane is in the middle of the frame. Oh and different colored planes will require different exposure comp too :)

Since the actual amount of light outdoors stays pretty constant, in the end what happens is that you are changing your compensation around to keep a constant exposure while the camera makes different decisions with different framing, different planes etc. So you are in effect fighting the camera which doesn't really understand the situation as well as you do :)

It's easy to end that battle - bump the mode selector to M. Then find an exposure that produces a good histogram and image and start shooting without worrying about what's in the frame. If the light changes, adjust a bit.
 
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