Nicely shot Phil, was this an organised shoot and with whom please ?

Chris

Texting Alice for me, well spotted and excellent timing.

Both the weight of the 50 - 500 or the 150 - 500 may be the issue, I do find this with the 150 - 450, so try a 100 - 300 or similar, be a little further away, then crop in, but have something easier to hand hold at slower shutter speeds.

This is the guide I use on my mach loop shots which you've seen, I can post some examples if you wish.

Superbly well shot, #3 & #5 for me

Morning Gareth

These are organised shoots with a company called Timeline Events, where they are on live MOD / RAF bases, you are booked in, security checked and escorted across the base in a group, I've done 2 at Cosford plus this one here at Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk and a Vulcan at Wellesbourne

There are aircraft, particularly Vulcans dotted across the UK, you can get close and shoot, but you'll get other people milling around, if you don't mind these in your shots then fine, personally I prefer clean shots which is where these guys come in, they are organised, usually about 60 ish photographers and in the main, you all respect each others space and mostly work hard to stay out of each others shot, there are a few exceptions occasionally !!

Timeline also provide the lights and smoke machine and set up the aircraft so modern stuff isn't in shot, the Vulcan at Wellesbourne was dragged out onto the main runway for a better background, the airfield was closed to all but emergency traffic for the shoot, the re-enactors are pretty good, all dressed in period costume and are part of the scene.

I've done 4 of these now, got some decent images of Aircraft I wouldn't have normally got, but they are becoming a bit sammey, so I probably wont do any more anytime soon unless something really appetising aircraft wise takes my fancy and that would have to be a Lightning really, They do a fair amount with steam trains plus other stuff, but I have GWSR on my doorstep so that's not for me.

HTH

Thank you all, pretty unanimous for the last image 😁

Hi Vic,

I have read on other forums it's worth preserving with trying to charge them, they may recover. Try leaving them on charge till the batteries run out of charge then drop a fresh set in as soon as poss.

Thank you all for your encouraging comments, really appreciated

The capacitors can die, the manufacturers do recommend you fire them up and discharge them a few times every few months if they are not being used regularly.

How long for and is it Uk , Europe or further afield, what Pentax Camera are you using ?

If its short term, I'd probably just use several different cards, I'd probably not have 1 massive card, but several say between 8GB and 16GB, so not all eggs in one basket, for eggs also read images !! - you may be able to write to 2 cards at the same time depending on the camera you have, if this is the case up the cards to perhaps a 32GB on RAW and duplicate the images and 16GB on Jpeg.

HTH