No pictures yet but I'm a proud new owner of a Canon EOS 60D. Don't ask me how to use it, I'm so use to the good old point and shoots. I plan on testing it out before I jump first first into the airshow coming up at Nellis next month. I will have the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM to go with it in a few days. Stay tune for some test shots that I'm sure won't be the greatest at first.

Shoot fast, shoot often, and... get ready to buy another hard-drive.
Have fun, and watch out that you don't get GAS (gear acquisition syndrome)

nice equipment, must be rough working at such a "target rich environment"... My friend is an EMT out there and shoots all the Red Flags. Totally jealous!

Yeah, nice rig! Looking forward to the photos from your "inside" access.

I'm planing on going to the Nellis show this year too. Gotta make those motel reservations...

Oh, and I'd recommend putting it in shutter priority mode (Tv), and for jets shoot as fast of a shutter speed as it can expose, like 1/800 or higher, unless you want to show the background as having motion blur. I'd also put the focus mode to AI Servo, so it will track moving aircraft. For propeller planes, I'd put it to 1/320 or slower if you can, to get as much prop blur as possible. Too fast of a shutter speed and you'll freeze the props, which makes it look like the engine died or something. For the bright daylight conditions, I wouldn't go any higher than 400ISO. The overall gray tones of combat aircraft seem to show more noise than other colors or busy scenes.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for the info Ken, it is greatly appreciated. Are you coming up for Friday's (Nov 11th) show? If you don't have access to the base for that Friday let me know.

We should make a small SimHQ - Vegas get together. I recommend visiting petting zoo.

congrats, you're going to love it after you get over the intial "How the F- do I do this?" phase

If you are looking for some good tips, check out the Canon POTN forums. It's a wealth of knowledge that has helped me out tremendously!


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Good luck and enjoy!

The Petting Zoo is cool and all, but watch your head when you climb inside a Soviet tank! I think I hit my head in every one of them! I'm guessing many Russian tank drivers weren't anywhere near 6'4!

Nice rig Panther! Can't wait to see what you can do!