Great shots there especially the Hawk and the Mustang

The chap that owns the P40 is based at North Weald airfield not far from where I live and he owns 3 other warbirds. He flew that at the Shuttleworth Collection Spring Air Show later on the same day which I was at as well and came back with another load of images

I saw some on another forum taken at Abingdon. Didn't they have the RAF C17 take off from there during the show?

I know what you mean...I keep being referred to as a plane spotter but I'm not I'm an enthusiast

Nice one Hardgravity, correct

Thanks for your comments.

Looking at #1 and #2 we did have some blue stuff during the day. Thankfully I had the monopod to help keep me steady, the crosswinds were a real problem so much so that there should have been 4 Spitfires but it was too windy for the other 2. Would have been nice to see the BBMF as well but couldn't get out of RAF Coningsby for the same reasons

Here's some more taken on Sunday specifically with the 60-250mm...why not impress yourselves and try and guess what these ones are?

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Rob

As being the one that started this thread I just want to add a few things...I'm not trading my kit in for any of the other brands as I still believe that Pentax cameras produce the best images and having seen some of the images on another forum that were taken on Sunday using other makes I would be disappointed with the results. Since my first SLR being a P30T which I still have and was a 21st birthday from my parents I have always been pleased with the images and build quality of the Pentax brand.

I wasn't relying on the FPS speed solely on Sunday and used it only when required, the rest of the time I tried to get the right picture at the time of capture which may have given me the edge over the Canikony users

A friend of mine is looking at buying his first DSLR and despite my best efforts to promote the Pentax brand he has his mind set on a Canon 500D...

In fact they had all packed up and were starting to run to the relative cover of their cars

I thought there was something different about it

Here is an example of my DA*300 in use in the pouring rain, this was the last image of the day and the quality isn't brilliant due to rain on the glass but acceptable I think.

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Do you think they were thinking "stupid pentax user, there cheap anyway"?

It could have well been something like that as I was using a Giottos monopod for most of the day and I saw one of the Canon crowd mouth to his mate something about the bloke with a monopod then his mate after a few second delay as if to not be looking at me deliberately turn round and muttered something else...probably wanted my K20D?

Rob, bit off the subject (sorry) but were you using your 60-250 at Duxford? How did it do, love to see some pictures

Greytop, if you have a look at the photos thread the Gnats and the B17 were taken with the 60-250mm, there are more of course which I might put on later if there is more requests All in all I was very pleased with the IQ of this lens and I would say the quality was almost as good as my DA*300mm.

I won't be looking to get a K7 just yet, maybe if airshow photography was my living but when Chris has one I might just have a look at it anyway and have a play with it.

#1 are Hawks and #6 are Gnats. Nice shots of the Spanish Eurofighter - where did you take those?