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Roulettes, Australia Day Eve in Canberra:

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=136

Cheers
Christian

Ahhh!!! You got them!!! I saw them fly over when I was walking back after a drink at the Wig and Pen...

I will go have a peak!

Wow... good stuff!!! The light was just stunning! Well done! Where were these taken from?

Christiand,
Is it with the TC or non TC?
I'm sure you do better than those pics at tomorrow. Today is just your practice day and tomorrow will your show day. Hope I'll have a nice print of them from you soon.

Birddog114 wrote:Christiand,
Is it with the TC or non TC?
I'm sure you do better than those pics at tomorrow. Today is just your practice day and tomorrow will your show day. Hope I'll have a nice print of them from you soon.

I thought they were here in Sydney tomorrow Birdie at around 3.30pm!!

Chris

I was on the lawns between the Old and the New Parliament.
I was quite lucky, I had the evening sun shining on them.
I will take more photos tomorrow.
Flight Lieutemamt Benjamin Cartwright, Roulette 7,
responded to my query; they are going to be over Lake Burkey Griffin tomorrow at 12:00

Cheers
CD

The Roulettes are also over Sydney Harbour tomorrow, I think at 15:00.

Cheers
CD

christiand wrote:The Roulettes are also over Sydney Harbour tomorrow, I think at 15:00.

Cheers
CD

I knew they will be here tomorrow but I'll be at work from 12:00

Good shots, Christian, and I'm looking forward to more.

Have to admit, I never thought I'd warm to the PC-9s the boys are now flying as I grew up with the old Macchi "Fanta Cans" strutting their stuff but photos like this make it hard not to luv 'em.

A few or rather quite some years ago the Red Arrows did a show in Canberra.
Jets, awesome.
I still remember when the crowd on the balcony of the High Court took a dive.
It looked as if one aircraft was coming in too close, people ducked !

Cheers
CD

christiand wrote:I was on the lawns between the Old and the New Parliament.
I was quite lucky, I had the evening sun shining on them.
I will take more photos tomorrow.
Flight Lieutemamt Benjamin Cartwright, Roulette 7,
responded to my query; they are going to be over Lake Burkey Griffin tomorrow at 12:00

Cheers
CD

Is that so!
Awesome!

christiand wrote:A few or rather quite some years ago the Red Arrows did a show in Canberra.
Jets, awesome.
I still remember when the crowd on the balcony of the High Court took a dive.
It looked as if one aircraft was coming in too close, people ducked !

Cheers
CD

CD - it was during the bi-centenial and they did the same in Sydney. I was on a ferry when they came across the harbour at deck level from all directions - awesome

Chris

christiand wrote:The Roulettes are also over Sydney Harbour tomorrow, I think at 15:00.

Cheers
CD

One of them was all over Sale last week

What sort of lens did you use?

Hi Rusty,

I was using a 70-200 2.8 VR.
It was j u s t quick enough to auto focus.
However I may have to change my strategy when attempting those shots.
Tomorrow I will try these settings:
changeing the autofocus area to Dynamic area
keeping the autofocus to continuous and having the focus lock applied.
(so if the D70 is set to autofocus single area, you don't accidently move the focus are away from the center to the or a fringe sensor !)
That's what happened today and I "lost" a number of shots.
Unless you have a very quick focussing system you my need to revise your strategy and try to manually outsmart the situation.
The "Silent Wave" focussing lenses are fast.

HTH
CD

Christian - great shots. I look forward to the new, improved shots tomorrow.

christiand wrote:Hi Rusty,

I was using a 70-200 2.8 VR.
It was j u s t quick enough to auto focus.
However I may have to change my strategy when attempting those shots.
Tomorrow I will try these settings:
changeing the autofocus area to Dynamic area
keeping the autofocus to continuous and having the focus lock applied.
(so if the D70 is set to autofocus single area, you don't accidently move the focus are away from the center to the or a fringe sensor !)
That's what happened today and I "lost" a number of shots.
Unless you have a very quick focussing system you my need to revise your strategy and try to manually outsmart the situation.
The "Silent Wave" focussing lenses are fast.

HTH
CD

CD,
So you used the spot in these shots? dynamic is far lot better than!
I found it, with the D70 in shooting bird and plane, but it's not fast as the D2h, you'll surprise how fast is it. I can lock those Roulettes easy with my D2h and nail each of them down in difference pattern, tack sharp.
With these planes, the 200-400VR will do better though, but need to set it up with the Wimberley Sidekick and haeds + leg.
Unfortunately, I have to get into my customer site after 12:00 today, perhaps, call my engineers and let them there by themselves and take a sickie day.
The VR and "silent wave" focusing is the best system I've found with the 70-200VR/ 200-400VR and the new 300VR, you'll appreciate the SW in these shooting events. BTW, you qualified for the AA team leader (Anti Aircraft) you deserved a medal:lol:

Great pics, i like that last one best. Nice and sharp and a great angle.

But there seems to be two planes missing I wonder where they are.

My favourites are the second and the last. I like the composition of these and they are nice and sharp. Enjoy it today!

Thank you all for your comments and replies.
I'll give it another go today.

Cheers
CD

Over they go!