Glenn Martin wrote: > How do you get such VIBRANT pictures with any glare or haze from the > KR's Canopy?
Lots of practice! There are a few simple tricks, such as keeping the canopy clean and scratchfree, wearing dark clothes and having nothing shiny in the cockpit (the next one will be all black inside), and for times when the glare can't be killed I use the giant rubber lens hood that I suck up to the canopy to completely eliminate it. Another trick that works well when the sun is low is to bank hard enough to put the wing between the canopy and the sun, and all glare disappears. The original reason for the lens hood was to keep me from scratching the inside of the canopy with the end of the lense, and it does great at that also, so it stays on the camera at all times. Also, I take control of the camera by taking it off automatic and set ISO speed, shutter speed, and aperture to whatever it needs to be to eliminate blurring the image. The image stabilized lense I bought last year helps by 3 f-stops, which equals three shutter speeds lower, but I took a lot of good pictures before I bought that expensive lense. and Rick Human wrote: >>Gee Mark - are you inviting a visit from the FBI - loitering over a DAM, >>in a HOMEBUILT AIRCRAFT, posting pictures of the target on the net. Numerous trips overseas in the last year, once landed on a Military Base without previous permission with said aircraft, it just goes on and on! :-) << Well I've been called a "failed pilot" before, and today I added a few more to the list while visiting my father's grass strip. I decided yesterday that if I hit that dam at 250 mph the prop hub might make a dent about a half inch by a half inch, by about 3/8" deep. At the risk of starting a TSA thread that will never end, I've been saying for years that we'd all end up putting our belongings in clear plastic bags and wearing gov't issue Tyvec coveralls on airliners, but my wife corrected me the other day and said "no, it'll be skimpy hospital gowns, and we'll be in handcuffs". That image really cracks me up. Today I added another 3 hours under the KR belt, now approaching 850 KR flying hours... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
