Nice shots Jim!
It’s been a while since I’ve been on here. Hope you all are staying safe and are doing well. This past weekend I had a mini autumn adventure.
Thanks Joe, nope the 1DX, III and III will be respectable tools for a long time to come. When the air got really mixed up and it was obvious the 800 needed to stay in the long lens case, I just felt like the 1DXIII and the 200-400 was my best choice, it did not let me down. I can't imagine selling the III in the foreseeable future , no matter what they come up with, in fact this weekend I kind of started thinking about getting another III and alternating so they'll last a very long time.
Does anyone have a burning desire for a DJI Ronin S in mint, like never used, condition? I just ordered the new carbon fiber version and don't need two of them.
Hi all. Just read something that might be of interested to the crew that went to Red Flag in 2010.
Remember that presentation we had at Nellis on the Constant Peg program, where the AF acquired Soviet jets and flew them against USAF pilots in the desert? Just read a blog post from an F-15 pilot that flew against them: https://hushkit.net/
The 5DS R made it's way to the farm after a backorder period. Impressed!
5D & 85mm F:1.8 lens @ f:9:
The moon with the 5D & 100-400mm II @ 400mm:
I think I like it very much. My wife reminded me what I said several years ago when I had my 36 mp D810. After seeing the files from the 36 mp I asked "Who needs 50 mp?" ME!
Hi Ray, You will love it more every time you shoot with it. There are a number of whiners out there that say it doesn't do high ISO well, and that the buffer is slow, that it's not a sports camera. You are going to discover that, in the right hands, that's all fake news. How about using half the frame and still ending up with a file the same size as most cameras. Enjoy Buddy!
Full disclosure. I did not take these pictures. Damn, I hate being old Marine. I'd give my eye tooth (the other one) to be 21 again. I'd've never turned down the six year extension I was offered before going back CONUS for discharge. Oh well, next life
I don't know if any of you integrated the Camranger into your work when it came out a few years ago. I got one and loved it so much that I bought an additional one as a back up. They introduced the II version a while back featuring much faster image preview and a couple of new features. The Camranger 2 comes in at around $350 so I held off buying one as long as my I was working ok. Last week I was reading a review and decided to pull the trigger and the new unit is night and day. the I was a great invention but terribly slow to preview, especially when a client is holding the iPad, it just slows your workflow. The new unit displays your capture in the blink of an eye and the wifi connection between the unit and the camera is much easier and more reliable, well worth the asking price.
A client of mine in East Texas bought one, close to $500,000, bundle that with insurance for a two place/aerobatic airplane in a commercial application and normal fuel and operating costs and you can see how rides would be a bit pricey.
Interesting experiment Ray! I shoot everything in RAW, used to shoot JPEG+RAW but quit that years ago. Shooting tat test in RAW would give you a more accurate depiction of what the two cameras produce.
I wanted to take the R5 into the air yesterday and shoot some more aerials with it, but the clouds broke late, the winds were ridiculous and I just didn't want any distractions because the clouds and rain were returning shortly after we landed. I chose my trusty 5DSR for the assignment and with the KS6x6, out of 1,003 images, there was not a single one that wasn't tack sharp.
