Please note towards the end of this GIF animation the deer seems to be speeding up as the camera slows down. This happens exactly at frame 193 of 203 as the A9.3 pre-capture buffer size is 192.
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Sony ILCE-9M3 + FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS @ 300mm, f/6.3, 1/3200 s, ISO 12,800.
Douglas L wrote:
@Peire@, @Besar@, These were taken on June 5 at the 2024 NATO Tiger Meet at Schleswig AB in northern Germany. Hope the boys make you proud!
More than 10 NATO nations and partners sent their team to the exercise. It was my first time ever see European-made fighter jets, on ground or in air, I was like a kid in the caddy store.
Superb pictures Douglas!This is the first time I see our F-16 jets in action! And so beautifully taken! Thank you again!
Peire wrote:
Superb pictures Douglas!This is the first time I see our F-16 jets in action! And so beautifully taken! Thank you again!
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IndyFab wrote:
Much appreciated Douglas, likewise, all of your Aviation and Landscape captures have been outstanding.
Thank you, Peire, Joe!
Some more shots from the NATO Tigers Meet in Germany. I had never seen any European-made modern fighter jets in person so this was really a treat for me, especially seeing them in different paint schemes. I didn't know anything about this exercise until the day before when someone told me it's only 25 miles from where I was staying in northern Germany.
Turkish Air Force F-16
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens400mmf/6.31/3200s320 ISO0.0 EV
Turkish Air Force F-16
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens400mmf/6.31/3200s400 ISO+0.3 EV
German Luftwaffe Tornato
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens259mmf/6.31/2500s500 ISO+0.7 EV
French Air Force Rafale
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens382mmf/5.61/3200s250 ISO+0.3 EV
A few shots from my one night stay in Rebe, the oldest town in Denmark. The sun sets very late and rises very early this time of the year so the streets of the small town were deserted when I took those pictures.
ILCE-7RM5Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/9.01/5s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens70mmf/10.01/13s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-7RM5Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/10.01/30s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/9.01/15s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens51mmf/10.01/13s100 ISO0.0 EV
ILCE-1Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm F4.5 III lens15mmf/8.01/15s100 ISO0.0 EV
Haven't really had much time to go through my files from Denmark, here are a few from Tuesday, June 4th. A 2-seat F-16 flown by a Ukrainian pilot, Godspeed!! It was very cloudy so we went above the cloud deck. Sometimes the jets flew as close as 15 meters (I think). It was a surreal experience to see a fighter jet flying this close.
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ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens250mmf/8.01/2500s500 ISO+0.7 EV
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ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens352mmf/8.01/2500s400 ISO+0.7 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens274mmf/8.01/2500s250 ISO+0.7 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens183mmf/8.01/2000s320 ISO+0.7 EV
ILCE-1FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS lens312mmf/7.11/2500s200 ISO+0.3 EV
WOW! It turns out the A9.3 is a much more interesting camera than I thought it would be.
When I shot this deer
I noticed how smooth the GIF animation clip was without aligning the images first in order to eliminate the unsteadiness with which the camera was held during shooting.
Next I have this sample of doves sitting or landing in an Apricot tree.
Please note the violent shaking of the tree branches after the dove has landed.
Why is that?
And now the Rosetta Stone GIF animation clip explaining this A9.3 feature.
This image sequence was shot when it was very windy.
Please note the clip starts out very smoothly, intermittently the branches are pretty vigorously blown around, and the clip ends very smoothly again.
It turns out the at the beginning and ending of the clip images were shot at 120 FPS, while in between the images were shot at a rate of 6 FPS as the camera had filled up its buffer of 192 images.
My take on this behavior is simply that motions, either in the environment to shakiness of hand holding the camera of order 1/10 of a second are too long to be noticed at an order of magnitude shorter time scale that the A9.3 can operate on when it has not run out of buffer space.
However at a shooting speed of 6 FPS this time scale is comparable to human reaction times or slow motions in the environment.
There are 2 kinds of motion blur, namely subject or camera motion. In the last clip there is only subject motion as camera motion has already been eliminated through image alignment.
