HM16 Seahawk
Senior Heliman
Location: Fenton, Michigan - USA
| 3rd time out today taking pictures. Got some very good ones. I don't think I want to go to work anymore! At least during good photo days.
I had an even mix of in focus and out of focus shots. The camera was set to infinity for focus and all the shots were 100 + feet. It was a sunny, windless day and I had the shutter speed locked in at 1/500th of a second. I took some photos when the heli was ascending, some when desending and some when in slow forward flight. I did not keep track of what was taken when, but I suspect that was the only varient that might account for blurred vs in focus.
On my later flight, I had snapped some photos in focus at 1/40th and 1/60th of a second (it was getting dark,cam set to auto everything) and they were not blurred...so I think my mechanical setup is not creating vibration induced blur.
Any techniques that you experienced photographers can share as to when to snap the photo? On the way up, on the way down, hold steady hover? |
The Sony DSC-V1 has a manual focus mode. Just set it to infinity and go fly! It also shoots quicker that way because it doesn't have to try to get the shot in focus first.
