+Al Chris back when I was starting out in photography I really wanted a long lens, I started with a manual focus 100-300mm f5.6 which i got off ebay for 50 bucks 🙂 I still have it and it is a fine lens for its age and f/5.6-ness. Shortly thereafter I was lucky enough to buy a second hand 300mm f4, alot of my lens are secondhand 🙂 the 300mm f/4 is a really nice lens and affordable (buy them new now for about 1K), I also bought, some years later, a teleconverter, again secondhand from a mate 🙂 which is the combination here. Nikkor 300mm f/4 with a 1.7 (TC17EII) which on full frame gets me to about 500mm focal length which these are taken at 🙂 A better lens would be one with stabilisation tho, there are some great offerings from sigma in this area, like the 50-500mm and they are pretty cheap 🙂
Wow! I hadn't heard of this group before. I have seen both the Red Arrows and the Blue Angels fly. Once seen, never forgotten.
+Carolyn Fahm I would love to see the Blue Angels 🙂 The ones in the middle shot are the Russian Roulettes, the bottom are from 'Paul Bennet Airshows' in the Pitts Special (S2) and the top image has a Extra 300 (from memory) in the centre with Pitts Specials either side.
Great shots!
Far out!! What lens did you use to capture it so well?
+Shelly Gunderson cheers Shelly
+Al Chris back when I was starting out in photography I really wanted a long lens, I started with a manual focus 100-300mm f5.6 which i got off ebay for 50 bucks 🙂 I still have it and it is a fine lens for its age and f/5.6-ness. Shortly thereafter I was lucky enough to buy a second hand 300mm f4, alot of my lens are secondhand 🙂 the 300mm f/4 is a really nice lens and affordable (buy them new now for about 1K), I also bought, some years later, a teleconverter, again secondhand from a mate 🙂 which is the combination here. Nikkor 300mm f/4 with a 1.7 (TC17EII) which on full frame gets me to about 500mm focal length which these are taken at 🙂 A better lens would be one with stabilisation tho, there are some great offerings from sigma in this area, like the 50-500mm and they are pretty cheap 🙂
Wow! I hadn't heard of this group before. I have seen both the Red Arrows and the Blue Angels fly. Once seen, never forgotten.
+Carolyn Fahm I would love to see the Blue Angels 🙂 The ones in the middle shot are the Russian Roulettes, the bottom are from 'Paul Bennet Airshows' in the Pitts Special (S2) and the top image has a Extra 300 (from memory) in the centre with Pitts Specials either side.