Good airshow lens?

I took tons of airshow pictures with my Minolta XG-1 and X-700 film camreas.

Here's a shot of a Huey flying over my house the other day. Nikon D80,
Nikon 18-200mm VR lens at 95mm. F8 1/1000sec ISO 400 equivalent. Cropped
in *a lot* with PhotoShop. Held in very shaky hands, too.

The damn thing's got more controls than the Space Shuttle but it's got a lot
of potential. I just hope I do.


Regards, PLMerite


"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
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"Peter.D.Evans" orbscure.AT.hotmail.DOT.com wrote in
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Hi again Bob...

Handheld, and just about falling over backward as I was shooting
rather straight up as the P-51 banked over the tarmac I was standing
on. Another testament to the 7D's image stabilization is that I have
a pretty badly screwed up back, and have a fair bit of trouble just
standing still, much less doing a smooth track on a fast moving
aircraft...

Very nice indeed! I love a good ol'P-51 in a metal finish with good
weather! Can't wait to see what results I get with my combination...

Below is the best of what I was getting with my Panasonic FZ-7.
Ground/static shots were no problem whatsoever, but display images
were another thing altogether!

Beautiful...

But yeah. My first digital camera was a Sony CD1000 back in 2001. It was
okay for static subjects, but all-but useless for aerial photography.
Between the shutter lag, the long blackout of the viewfinder during image
capture, and the single shot buffer that took around 8 seconds to write
the
image off to the CD-R...

Nice toy at the time, but I had to stick with the Minolta film SLRs for
flying displays.

Bob ^,,^