G-CVIX wrote:Were there any Phantoms in 2013, 2014, 2015?

Not according to my records - or scramble's .... if there were, they must've been the stealth version

FlyingFairy wrote:If its sold out what is to stop you driving into the car park (I've never been asked to present a ticket at that stage) and just stopping by your car in the car park to watch the departures?

They have the option to close the entrance to the car park when all the tickets have sold-out.

Are we able to contact RIAT or does someone from DBH watch this . You could post on their FB page https://bit.ly/2LBvSY0 - they seem quite responsive to answering questions there. I'd like to understand how many departures day tickets will be available on the day. What percentage of total tickets i...

Except.. if East is full they’ll stop people coming in from West with tickets on safety grounds... ....... and yet, from a question posted on the official RIAT FB page: I’m not a friat member but have already got a Wednesday park and view ticket, I’m assuming I will still be able to get in if it ge...

I can now envisage far more people than can be accommodated turning up at arrivals and departures and all trying to be the first there. It'll be gridlock before 6am and then the chaos of those trying to leave whilst others are still arriving and some driving to try their luck at the other end ........

I rather think you'd find 300mm somewhat restricting for aviation - especially after having had 500mm available. Also, the Sigma 18-300mm is f/6.3 at the long end of the zoom, which isn't very good for 300mm. When it comes to 3rd party lenses, unfortunately Pentax is not very well supported, especia...

disgruntled wrote:.... an all in one lens with 100mm extra reach and a wider aperature has got me thinking...

Bear in mind that the maximum aperture varies across the zoom range - f/3.5 is only at the short (18mm) end - zoom in to 400mm and the aperture closes to f/6.3

Surely they need to look at increasing the capacity, I guess it's the parking that is the issue rather than the enclosure capacities? Judging by how crowded the enclosures have been the past couple of years, I'd assumed the enclosure capacity to be the issue (but I could be wrong) and given the con...

I can now envisage far more people than can be accommodated turning up at arrivals and departures and all trying to be the first there. It'll be gridlock before 6am and then the chaos of those trying to leave whilst others are still arriving and some driving to try their luck at the other end and I...

Very few if any Pro photographers use JPEG. I wouldn't be too sure about that - I believe that most professional photographers who have to work to tight publication deadlines (e.g. journalism), use jpeg for speed - they simply don't have the time to post-process raw images. I do however, fully agre...

........... Once I'm done and I've completed my workflow, I save it to a new location, close the original file and do not save changes. The original file is unharmed. If you've got into the habit of working that way and it suits you, then fine, however for anyone else considering this, bear in mind...

I can't help, but while there may be one or two on here who have attempted similar subjects, I'd suggest that you'd be more likely to find people with the relevant experience to be able to advise you, on a nature photography forum.

Looking at both pictures side by side using a programme called faststone and straight out of the can so to speak. I honestly couldn't see much difference between the two .... RAW images are not viewable in their native format; hence every RAW file has a (high compression) jpeg 'preview' embedded wi...

I believed that the reason for capitalising RAW is to indicate that it refers to a format, be that cr2, nef, or whatever, whereas 'raw' in lowercase is simply a descriptive adjective, as in "the raw data", but I rather doubt that there is a definitive answer to the question.

Purely in terms of sharpness, AFAIK, there's no difference between RAW & jpeg, however RAW does offer several advantages to getting the best out of an image in post-processing. Having said that, what you start out with dictates the quality of the end result, i.e. technique, lens, sensor - in tha...

Although I have both, I wouldn't consider using the laptop for photo editing as IMO, you can never have too much screen space. However, I do have an "office" at home with a powerful desktop PC (self-built) and triple monitor setup, which enables me to view an image full-screen on one monit...

I have a D500 - coupled with a Sigma 100-400mm is a great combination. The Sigma is compact and light - not much bigger than a 70-300mm and IQ is excellent, right through to the full 400mm extent. In comparison reviews I've seen, it equals the fabled Canon 100-400mm for sharpness, however the zoom a...

XP282 wrote:

Tommy wrote:
We got 75% of what we expected.

.... that would imply that the cap was ~75,000?

Not quite ....... doing the maths, if 50,000 = 75%, then 100% = 66,666 (and a decimal point with a lot of recurring sixes after)

If it is overexposed, having set my shutter speed/aperture/ISO, then I add exposure compensation ........... Exposure compensation is for overriding automatic exposure - when you vary the exposure compensation on most cameras in manual mode, the only thing that changes is the meter indication, i.e....

Could the difference perhaps be natural, i.e. atmospheric haze, possibly accentated by the smaller aperture, rather than camera noise?

To elaborate - OS1 attempts to correct for movement in both lateral and vertical axes; so is intended for stationary subjects (e.g. hovering helicopter), whereas OS2 only corrects for vertical movement and is intended to be used for panning shots, however some say that OS is only effective at slower...

Mike wrote:Erm, I think you'll find that he was referring to 111's callsign, not the aircraft type.

ahh, fair enough, my mistake ... I'm not at all familiar with callsigns

Finningley Boy wrote:Not at all Scimitar Formation my old plum ...

Hunter formation, actually - (Black Arrows at Farnborough, 1957), but an understandable misidentification, given the poor quality photo - taken by myself as a 6 year-old, on a Kodak Brownie 127.

I'd always assumed that the main reason for shows going over to 'advance tickets only' was the unpredictability of the weather. With 'on the gate' tickets, if the weather is bad and few punters turn up, the organisers (and traders) stand to make a substantial loss, whereas advance tickets guarrantee...

Some questions were asked by a long-time VTTS Club member on the VTTS forum, which ( not unexpectedly ) haven't been responded to by anyone from VTST. As the questions are no doubt ones which people on this forum would also be interested in seeing answered, I'll post them on here.....but like the p...