F-5E Tiger

[KevC]

My first ever time trying to track an airplane. This was using my 300D (no AI Servo, I wasn't in Sports mode) with my 24-70EX.

70mm, 1/400, f/8

It about to land so it was going relatively slow. Kinda soft, I had to sharpen in photoshop.

I love fighter planes. This one was coming back from training, taken in 花蓮 (Hua Lien) in Taiwan.

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5660/crw2426ci6.jpg

I saw some Fighting Falcons but they were too high and going too fast for me to capture them :(

[*Zwitter*]

very nice!

cool plane too!

[damnfoolman]

yeah tiger goodness always a good thing....

[yakbut]

Good shot, still a great aircraft considering it was developed in the 60s.

[KevC]

Good shot, still a great aircraft considering it was developed in the 60s.

Yep. And the first F16 was flying in the 70s :shock: I really wanted to see one of those up close and personal though. Taking off maybe. That's still my favourite plane (with the Sukhoi Su27). She's so pretty...

[PhotosGuy]

This was using my 300D (no AI Servo, I wasn't in Sports mode) No. The 300D's only Focus mode is "AI Focus" which means it will automatically switch from single shot to AI servo when it thinks it should...

It worked pretty well in these: Radio Controlled Boats (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=101101)

Thanks to Cadwell for typing this:
Tricking AI servo, three ways I know... (works in ANY mode)

(My personal favorite - If it's coming closer, adjust the focus a bit closer & AI Servo takes over right away.)
1. Achieve focus lock on a subject and then whilst keeping the shutter half depressed and the subject centered, move the lens focus ring - camera drops into AI servo and will stay there as long as the shutter is kept half depressed. (Only works with lenses that support full time manual focusing such as Canon USM and Sigma HSM lenses)

2. Achieve focus lock on a subject and whilst keeping the shutter half depressed use the lens zoom mechanism to zoom in slightly. Camera drops into AI servo and will stay there as long as the shutter is kept half depressed. Obviously only works with zoom lenses and doesn't work with parfocal lenses.

3. Achieve focus lock on a relatively close subject and then whilst keeping the subject centered, and the shutter button half depressed take a step forward. Camera drops into AI servo and will stay there as long as the shutter is kept half depressed.

All three methods take a little practice and some methods work better with some lenses than others. Fairly easy to do though.

[KevC]

Woah! Thanks for the info Frank! Way cool! =)