"Aviation Photo Thread" (Planes, Helos, Balloons, etc)...

Extending - a maneuver to open space between you and your opponent - and giving you the option to re-attack or escape.

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From the Selfridge airshow
X-T2 and XF 55-200. Really impressed with the quality of the C-AF and single point focus. But wished the EVF lag was not that long. Anyway, I am seriously impressed by the quality of this lens. Incredibly sharp. Best bang for the bucks.
By the way - this is SOOC
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My track record with photographing fast moving objects with the 50-230 isn't exactly sterling, but it was still cool to watch this thing operating. It was moving so fast by #3 that I was fortunate to even keep it in the frame. Any suggestions on settings or techniques for such moments would be appreciated.

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TonyTurley said:
My track record with photographing fast moving objects with the 50-230 isn't exactly sterling, but it was still cool to watch this thing operating. It was moving so fast by #3 that I was fortunate to even keep it in the frame. Any suggestions on settings or techniques for such moments would be appreciated.

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Tony, from your pictures:
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Personally, I believe that a shutter speed of 1/100 is just too slow. You can easily go to 1/1000+ with moving objects like jets. During the recent airshow I attended, i always used shutter speeds between 1/4000 and 1/8000.
Not sure how good the C-AF is on the X-T1, but with my X-T2 I use single point focus with a medium size box and the default mode 1 I believe, and works just right.
If you want to show a blurred background, probably you can stick with 1/500-1/1000s.
I would also take into account that too slow shutter speeds force small apertures (I have seen some f/16 or smaller in your shots). You lose sharpness due to diffraction at those ranges. If you want to go that slow, it would be probably worth getting a 1 to 2 stop ND filter to prevent small apertures like that. Or use a polarizer (which does about the same).
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Correction. Looks like going to 1/500s would not really require any ND filter
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Thanks for the detailed post. I messed up in how I had my aperture set in the menu (AUTO + MANUAL). I typically do keep my aperture no smaller than F8, but I had been experimenting with various AF settings recently, and forgot to reset things. My experiments have led me to conclude my old way of doing things - all manual - works best for me.
 
TonyTurley said:
Thanks for the detailed post. I messed up in how I had my aperture set in the menu (AUTO + MANUAL). I typically do keep my aperture no smaller than F8, but I had been experimenting with various AF settings recently, and forgot to reset things. My experiments have led me to conclude my old way of doing things - all manual - works best for me.
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For this kind of shots yes, M with auto ISO is the way to go. But you can also try Aperture priority with auto shutter and auto ISO. The trick is to set one of the 3 auto ISO settings to a very high minimum shutter speed.
 

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