Duxford : Battle of Britain Memorial Air Show, September 2025

[LadyG]

I thought I'd have another go now that I've got the OM-3 because whilst I loved the OM-5 I struggled with tracking fast moving objects. Once again, the longest lens I have is the 40-150 f4, which means that I can't use a physical teleconverter but I did use the inbuilt digital version quite a lot - but a lot of the planes were still way too far away! I also used ProCap for the first time and that took a bit of getting used to. Having practised a bit now, hopefully I won't fill a 128gb card next time I go!

There was a fair amount of living history there, as well.



We didn't move far from the red zone because it was absolutely heaving and I never arrive early enough to get near the front, so no take off shots from me!





Spitfire by Carol, on Flickr


NH-90 search and rescue helicopter by Carol, on Flickr


NH90 Search and rescue helicopter by Carol, on Flickr


Fairey Swordfish bi-plane by Carol, on Flickr

And ending with the Duxford Wing, a collection of Hurricanes and Spitfires.

[MJ224]

Fabulous shots. Those old aeroplanes certainly put in the hours during summer...

[buddha01]

Looking great, Carol. Maybe you can read the tutorial about photographing airplanes, which is of my hand.

https://www.e-group.uk.net/forum/forum/site-news-and-information/tutorials-informative-classic-threads/19581-photographing-airplanes

Also read this add-on to the original post: An small add on to my original article here. In the article I recommended to set image stabilization off. Since then some things have changed. Olympus cameras have now a days image stabilization over 5-axes and Olympus will release rhi year (2020) soon their newest lens the 150-400mm which has IS in the lens. So I found that IS, when you want to use it, is best set to auto IS. That way it will auto detect your movements, if it is in camera IS or in lens IS and photos come out still sharp. Preferably you want to choose for the 5-axes in camera IS. In lens IS would be normally only working over 2 axes, which may result in blurred images.
The two images used in my signature where shot with EM-D EM10 mark II and a Zuiko 70-300mm with in camera IS set on auto IS. The image used as my avatar was shot with the EM-D EM1mk.II with the mzuiko ED 100-400mm f/5-6.3 IS original with IBIS set to auto IS and lens IS set to on.