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on shots offer an interesting focusing problem. My method is to
"follow focus" despite advice by my
mentor, Neal Nurmi. (one of these days, I may
learn to listen to Neal!) Neal’s suggested
method for this type of shot, is to "pre
focus" on an object at the point you want to
capture the airplane… then take the shot
when the airplane comes into focus. I have yet to
develop the discipline to not attempt to follow
the airplane with the focus and zoom, an act made
particularly difficult by my lens choice.
I shoot
with the Tamron 28-300 zoom... a very nice and
reasonably affordable unit but due to the layout
of the asymmetrical lens, a "ring zoom"
is necessary. In lens choice for this type of
shooting, a "push-pull" zoom would be
superior. The Tamron 28-300 has about the
greatest range of any lens on the market (it did
when I got it a year ago at least) if your lens
budget is limited, the Tamron is one you might
want to take a close look at. It works
particularly well on the "short end"
and the range of zoom is very nice for ramp work,
where you are continually changing lenses or, in
the case of some photographers with several
cameras, changing from camera to camera.
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