I went to Ostend to try out the new lens, but there was just NO action today... and man, was it cold!

Anyway, here are some grounded visitors and one small cessna doing touch and go's...










Cheers,

Omag

Yep, it worked like a charm! 

Nice, it indeed was very cold today, when i came home from shooting small pools of water were already frozen.

Omag 2.0 wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2008 at 3:48pm:




Woo, my advice works, must note for posterity 

I find that the 9 AF points are most useful for ensuring that I have adequate depth of field to get all of a subject in focus. For example I took a group photo at the weekend, and I set the focus point on the face of the front row of the group. Because the light was poor the aperture was wide open, giving minimum depth of field. When I did a test shot the people in the second row were soft......so I switched to all 9 AF points and only those AF points on the front row were lighting up when I focused. I stopped the aperture down from f4.5 to f10, and this meant that all the AF points on both rows of people lit up when I half-pressed the shutter.

This in turn significantly reduced the amount of light entering the camera, so the shutter speed dropped. I put it on manual and upped the shutter speed to 1/40 at 43mm, and used diffuse flash to light it up. I told people to stand still and got a result I was happy with.

Best thing about digital, you can try again there and then, worst thing is that subjects get bored quickly