09-07-2012, 07:36 PM
It looks like the Delta breeze will be cooling Sacramento this Sunday, so I just might drag myself out to the Air Show at Mather.
I plan on using my Nikon FA (35mm film camera), which of course has matrix metering, but would it be better to simply to shoot in aperture or shutter speed priority and simply give my shots an extra stop or so exposure? I'm leaning towards the matrix metering since as an aircraft moves, the lighting can change from back, to side, to front lighting quite quickly.
Is an 80-200mm zoom long enough? Mine is a constant F4 zoom. I could put a 2X tele-extender on it, but I'd lose two stops of light.
I have a max shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second.
Is ISO 400 speed film fast enough? I have a couple rolls of ISO 800 speed film if it isn't. Using the sunny 16 rule, with the 800 speed film and the tele-extender, and when the aperture is set at F4, I'm getting F8's worth of light which means that the shutter speed should be 1/4000 of a second.
I plan on using my Nikon FA (35mm film camera), which of course has matrix metering, but would it be better to simply to shoot in aperture or shutter speed priority and simply give my shots an extra stop or so exposure? I'm leaning towards the matrix metering since as an aircraft moves, the lighting can change from back, to side, to front lighting quite quickly.
Is an 80-200mm zoom long enough? Mine is a constant F4 zoom. I could put a 2X tele-extender on it, but I'd lose two stops of light.
I have a max shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second.
Is ISO 400 speed film fast enough? I have a couple rolls of ISO 800 speed film if it isn't. Using the sunny 16 rule, with the 800 speed film and the tele-extender, and when the aperture is set at F4, I'm getting F8's worth of light which means that the shutter speed should be 1/4000 of a second.