Cosford tomorrow, tips for a newbie

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Hi guys,

So I'm taking my new Tamron 70-300 vc to cosford tomorrow and I'm looking at some shooting tips.

I've seen people say they will be using aperture mode, I am wondering what the benefit of this is? I am under the impression that aperture mode is DOF and I should be looking at shutter priority, maybe single point AF and beef up the ISO to around 400.

Any tips would be great :)
 
using the widest aperture will also give you the fastest shutter speed .. (at that iso)

so it would have the same effect.

keep an eye on the shutter speeds that you get and they are too low then bump up your iso .
 
make sure your gear is waterproofed, looks like we're in for some bad weather.

Last time I went it was the same, looked like I had been thrown in a swimming pool and getting a flat tyre was not my idea of fun :(
 
I'm going tomorrow as well, I've spent ages reading up on this... There's no right or wrong answer, some people suggest for beginners that shutter speed all the way is the way to go but others swear by aperture mode.

As well as Phal's advice on the Sport pictures thread I think this, quoted from another forum is sound advice;

"Av for jets.
Why? Simple really, you pick an aperture and your camera works out a shutter speed. So, why not use TV? Well, with the glorious weather we have, if you start off at say 1000th Sec, your camera picks say F5.6, as it's a bit sunny, all is good. Trouble is, when your plane gets to half way down it's high speed run, ops, the suns gone in. You have specified 1000th/sec, and your camera cannot deliver the required aperture, which has become say F4 Ops, no F4 on your lens zoomed out to 400mm. At that point Huston, you have a problem. If you're lucky you'll notice, if not you get the wrong exposure.

By using AV, you pick, F8 for example, and you get say 1/800th as a shutter speed. Sun goes in and you still have the F8, and a shutter speed of 1/500th. All is good you still get a perfect exposure. Yes, you might run out of fast shutter speeds, but with IS you can get away with that usually.

With props, its not so much of a problem, unless its really dull, using TV, you specify say 1/250th, you're not likely to run out of apertures."


My Optex rain cover arrived this morning, as well as two more 32 gb Sandisk extreme pro cards, that'll give me 128gb worth of memory, hopefully it's enough, will be shooting in RAW.

For Camera settings, so far, what I've gleaned from the Internet is that it's a good idea to use centre focus point and AI Servo mode, to keep the moving target continuously in focus whilst tracking, and then fire away in continuous shooting.

Exposure balance set to +1 or +1.5

Metering I'm not too sure about, spot?

Any other tips would be great.
 
yes i'd say spot, meter for the plane as that's your subject. I'd rather have a blown background than a dark subject :)

I'm not taking mine, taking the kids instead and just can't be bothered with the weight of the D700 + lenses as well. Just going to be watching the planes (weather dependant) and enjoying the day.
 
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