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Cool shot. And interesting, last time I saw Warrior one it had the traditional winglets.

On a sidenote: Scott, how is the 150-600 for panning? I'm curious because summer shooting at CMH requires more than 400mm due to how far away the south runway is, and I don't know if the 150-600 would be worth the money, or if I should stick to the 100-400+1.4x on the 1D3 for that. Everything I've gathered is that the 150-600 does not have a mode 1 / mode 2 on the IS, but nobody has been able to tell me if it automatically switches off one axis or if just doesn't have a panning mode.

Joe,

I'm not a long term user (bought my 100-400 in December), but it seems like the 100-400L is pretty much the official lens for planespotting, and the only negative comments I've heard are regarding how it's a 77mm wide dust vaccuum.

I have nothing but disappointment towards Sigma. My 80-400 OS seemed to be great when I bought it (used, in pretty much near mint condition), it didn't take much abuse, other than the ocassional bump, but everything changed in August/September of last year, when a screw from the zoom lock switch fell into the barrel and jammed it, and the repair I was quoted ($400, on a lens with a market value of just over that -copies of the newer 120-400 OS from rental agencies were going for $650) wasn't worth it (the experience with the repair shop is a whole different story). My brief analysis was that this was a design/manufacture flaw that nobody seemed to have addressed in the past, and the whole fiasco (not to mention that my OS seemed to have been acting up) resulted in me having a nice cylindrical paperweight chilling in my closet, and to this date I doubt I will buy Sigma in the near future.

For some reason I was under the impression that the 100-400L/1.4x combo was only supported with 1D bodies, and that when using non-supported bodies the exposure tends to be a bit off.

My only experience with the 100-400L/1.4x is that at 540mm it does get soft (1.4x II is what I have), the image was not the best, but not something I could complain about. This was on a 1D Mk III and in the middle of the Ohio winter, so there's minimal heat distortion.

To me it looks like you really cropped the image, or that the exposure was way off.

Oh ok. That explains why I never saw it displayed.

Is the Mystèrè new? I certainly don't recall seeing it.

I went back and started re-editing a bunch of shots. I left Arizona 6 months ago and I'm in an uber nostalgic mood (this absolutely freezing weather doesn't help much).


Black Hills Aviation Lockheed P2V-7 N14448 "Tanker 08" PASM 21JUN13 by FelipeGR90, on Flickr

So much for ITAR...

That's amazing. What did you use? Viveza?

Taken with Joe's legendary 8mm fisheye, Feb 2012

Did you notice a reduction in file size? for some reason I recall my DNG files being between 1-2 MB smaller than the RAW files.

I used DNG back in the day, but found no reason to add the extra step of converting to DNG (I did this for that same "what if .CR2 files in the future...." excuse), don't recall any loss of functionality, but I was using Photoshop CS back in the day, with my Rebel XT.

That's an interesting workaround, I never thought about it, and I do know that newer versions of software are slowly dropping support for older Macs. Since I'm going kinda backwards with cameras, this isn't that much of a concern, and so far I still get full support for my EOS 1Ds (made between 2002-2004).

My concern with DNG would be support in the future by non Adobe companies, should I, for any reason, go away from using Adobe products; I suppose that keeping files as DNG and RAW (if space is not a concern) could be be a viable idea.

The shot of the yellow plane is awesome.


Just out of curiosity, did anyone manage to get a shot of N26160? It's a white with mustard yellow Grumman AA-5, the owner is a friend of mine from my college days (that makes me sound a lot older than I really am), and he and another friend flew it to the fly-in.

The FAA N-number lookup page has apparently succomed to the government shutdown.

I thought that was just my computer.


Great shots as usual. I wanted to go to Coolidge, and a bunch of other events in Prescott, but there was no way I'd make it this weekend all the way from Ohio.

They definitely look a tad better than those on the Block 62 F-16s

My last Neptune photo during the Yarnell Fire


Neptune Aviation Tanker 07 KPRC 02JUL13 by FelipeGR90, on Flickr

[Moonlight Scorpionata]

Moonlight Scorpionata

Northrop YC-125A XB-GEY 21JUN13 by FelipeGR90, on Flickr