What lense?

I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?

What's a "lense"?

"niceguy" wrote:
What's a "lense"?

Although the variant spelling ³lense² is listed in some dictionaries,
the standard spelling for those little disks that focus light is ³lens.²

john smith wrote in news:468d060e$0$4658
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I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?


Tamron makes a great 28-300mm zoom I use one on my Canon
as for the tripod It would tend to be an obstruction freely moving aroun
the airshow

"john smith" wrote in message
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I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?

I use a Sigma 70-300 and I like it with my Canon 400D. No tripod.

Cheers,

Jim Morris

john smith wrote:

I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?


Depends what you can find for that body

About 400mm is best but not fixed

I use the Sigma Bigma 50-500 and my Canon 75-300 for most shots

But I have CAnon bodies

john smith wrote:
I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?

Maple1 wrote:
Depends what you can find for that body
About 400mm is best but not fixed
I use the Sigma Bigma 50-500 and my Canon 75-300 for most shots
But I have CAnon bodies

I purchased the two-lens kit. The lenses included are a 28-84 mm
auto-focus equivalent and an 80-300 mm auto-focus equivalent. They will
have a 140-600 mm auto-focus equivalent available in October.
I am awaiting the delivery of an adaptor that will allow me to use my
existing OM lenses. This will require use of manual setting and focusing
of the E-510.
One of the lenses I have is a 500 mm fixed f8 parabolic mirror. This
will become either a 750 mm or a 1000 mm equivalent lens on the E-510.
I am not yet certain what the conversion factor is for the 4/3 sensor.
Am I correct in believing that everything will be focused at infinity
during an airshow?

I gave serious consideration to a Canon because of the low noise at 800
ISO and above. The ability to use my existing lenses and improvements in
the E-510 over the E-500. became the deciding factors.

Jim Morris wrote:

"john smith" wrote in message
...
I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?

I use a Sigma 70-300 and I like it with my Canon 400D. No tripod.

Cheers,

Jim Morris

Hand job, eh?

--
Moving things in still pictures!

Am Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:54:05 -0400 schrieb john smith:

I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR. What lense are most of you using
for airshow photography? Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?

Hi,

how about a 500mm F/5,6 Maksutov Cassegrain (MTO 500, NOT the MTO 500S),
need an M42 Adapter and its only Manual Focus, but its quite small.

Or try the famous MTO1000 (1000mm F/10 Maksutov Cassegrain) if u need
that much focal length.

As far as i know the E-510 has a crop Factor of 2 which would make a
1000mm of MTO500 and a 2000mm for the MTO 1000.

Btw theres a M42 - Eyepiece adapter for the MTO1000 which makes a
Telescope out of the MTO 1000.

Regards
Jens

It doesn't matter if it's a digital or film camera, the way you use the
camera is the same. I would think that the only time you would use a tripod,
would be for low light situations where you would need long exposure times,
when you need a steady camera. I could see using one at the museums, where
they generally have low light, but not at an airshow. If you want to shoot a
high speed pass, you don't know how high off the ground he will be in front
of you. He may even climb, so, that would require you to crank up the height
of the camera very quickly, or pickup the tripod while holding on to the
camera. You want to be able to move the camera with the subject in order to
avoid blurring of the image. A tripod doesn't help.

I have a couple of lens, both zoom. The general purpose small zoom will take
care of most of the static close up aircraft. It's an 18-55mm lens. For
flying stuff, I use a 75-300mm. This is large enough for most aircraft I
shoot, and small enough to put in my case. However, there are times I wish I
had the 400mm zoom. or larger, but then, it starts getting expensive. Zooms
allow you to get several focal lengths without carrying a lot of lens around
with you.
Ron

"john smith" wrote in message
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I just purchased an Olympus E-510 DSLR.
What lense are most of you using for airshow photography?
Fixed focus or zoom?
Handheld or tripod mounted?