More Photos! (Spitfire Flyby)

divine` · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:06

divine` · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:08

Anyone know what that is?

Im quite pleased with those, my little Sigma APO did ok at 300mm I feel, I was expecting blurred messes of photos!

Pickers · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:12

Divine - what time of the day was this?? I've been keeping an eye out of the window must have missed them

divine` · 5 Mar 2006 at 19:15

About 4:35 till 4:55, they did only fly down the river though, they didn't go anywhere else.

I went down to Calshot Spit where they circled a few times to form up.

Brycheiniog · 5 Mar 2006 at 20:00

I think the last plane is a Harvard. Apparently it was being used as a camera ship.

Jonathan

Sparky191 · 6 Mar 2006 at 02:07

it amazing to get so many togther at once. How did you manage to snap them?

Pickers · 6 Mar 2006 at 07:08

mmm I want to play flying corps

Flibster · 6 Mar 2006 at 10:31

Brycheiniog said:
I think the last plane is a Harvard. Apparently it was being used as a camera ship.

Jonathan

Absolutely correct.

At least 2 of them are based at Duxford as well - Just down the road from me.

JH-C and 161

Not sure on the other 3 - suspect they could be local as well *North Weald/Duxford maybe - paintschemes have changed over winter*

For a very brief history on the Spitfire - no better place to go than than the home of the only military operated Spitfires in the world. The BBMF.

http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/bbmf/spitfire70.html

Simon/~Flibster

Richard T · 6 Mar 2006 at 11:32

best sounding engine ever in those things.... need I say more

Great shots as well

rG-tom · 6 Mar 2006 at 14:48

*makes no comment about nikon and noise

*

Tom.

Attu · 6 Mar 2006 at 16:53

Richard T said:
best sounding engine ever in those things.... need I say more

Which engine ?

JPL · 6 Mar 2006 at 17:18

Twas the 70th Anniv of the first test flight-plus a homage to R.J who was based at the Seaplane works at the Spit........(came from Stoke btw!)

Engine that sounded best was the last one-the Gryff(in the Mk9),which superceded the Merlin. :cool:

nolimit · 6 Mar 2006 at 20:35

nice shots divine.

Is the Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro worth buying?

I'm thinking of getting long zoom and macro lens but also need a good wide lens e.g Sigma 10-20.
My budget is only around £500.

if I go with Sigma 105mm and 10-20mm, I won't have enough funds to buy zoom lens.

I currently have the nikon d50 18-70 kit lens.

Brycheiniog · 6 Mar 2006 at 22:49

The Spitfires involved were:-

Mk.XVIII SM845
Mk.IX TA805
Mk.V BM597
Mk.XVI TD248 I think.
TR.IX G-CCCA

Some of my own pictures of the above Aircraft....

Mk.V BM597

TD248 in a slightly different scheme..

TR.IX G-CCCA

And the Harvard complete with Camera mount....

Jonathan

divine` · 6 Mar 2006 at 23:09

nolimit said:
nice shots divine.

Is the Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro worth buying?

Possibly, I couldn't say for sure as mine is the older non DG version, and there are a few tiny differences apparantly.

nolimit · 6 Mar 2006 at 23:18

The price seems very good bargain @ £160 ish. how is the build quality? and is the focusing really that slow?

I will be taking photos of nature and some macro stuff this summer in mongolia.