Hi.

Well, it was a nice evening today, calm and sunny, so I thought I'd go fly a camera again. I tried pointing it to the side this time, and got some really excellent shots. The only problem was I forgot to disable the intelligent autofocus, so I got quite a few really clear closeups of the wing

I have given up trying to take shots on demand, so simply put a 1GB card in the camera and set my shutter release board to fire it every two seconds which is as fast as the Ixus will go with that CF card. It gives about 16 minutes of shooting, which is ample. I can always turn it off in mid flight if I want to stretch the time.

The biggest problem is that the field is mostly flooded, so I had to pick the landing spot carfully if I didn't want the camera (under the plane) to end up submerged.

pca

Wow, that's really gorgeous.

have you uploaded all your pics to any website? I would love to see them...

Not yet. There's about 4 gigs of stills and 20 or so of video so far. I don't know where the best place to put a selection would be. Any thoughts?

Here's another, one of my favourites from yesterday. Currently used as my desktop wallpaper.

pca

Beautiful!

Wow, nice work, Mr. Q!

OK, the silly comments have pushed me to do this! It's all the fault of you people, mocking the differently sane

I'm just playing with it at the moment. I'll have to sort and categorise some of the better photos at some point.

pca

Nice!
Very cool photos.

I just noticed something....if you look at the background in the last picture (#11),(the smoke and the cloud) it looks like a scene from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"