May 5, 2024
Embrace the duds + SOTQ May 5, 2024
don't just share the keepers, seriously!
Queues update May 5, 2024
Airliners.net remains stagnant with close to 6000 in the queue but the queue length seems to have increased to over three weeks now. Still a bit early statistically to see if Jetphotos has had any success with the new rules. Crudely, at Jetphotos, the queue length remains very similar to weeks previous.
| Site | Queue Length (# of photos) | Last fully screened day | Number of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jetphotos | 25,490 (similar) | April 18, 2024 | 17 days (unch.) |
| Airliners.net | 6,382 (incr) | April 12, 2024 | 23 days (incr.) |
see last week’s SOTQ for more historic data.
Embrace the “failures”
Shooting digital, my Canon R6 Mark II can shoot 12fps mechanical shutter (and 40 fps electronic shutter), A 12fps burst makes…well…12 pictures per second. How many of those make for anyone else to see? Probably one? SD cards are cheap (sort of …) I use the Kingston Canvas React UHS-II V90 cards — to my knowledge these are the best value UHS-II cards available and it’s $49USD for 64GB. One of these cards can hold thousands of cRaw files. As with the prior articles, you only get 36 exposures with your roll of film!
Here’s the few duds from that first roll of film. To be honest, I don’t think they’re that bad, but it shows the importance of timing and the skill of triggering the shutter at just the right moment (oh and also not having immediate feedback of the results!)
KLM 787 touching down. I liked the capture of the tire smoke, the geomtry of the spotting location and the runway put that pesky pole in the way though.
TAP airbus also moments from touchdown. This one isn’t actually so bad, that little pole just gets in the way, but otherwise I was pleased with the exposure.
Aer Lingus A330 also just before touchdown. There is a photo of it earlier in the approach from last week. This one has that same pole from above. Again very minimal impact, but not a “keeper”
That’s it! 3/36 isn’t so bad? Another post I’ll feature some of the business jets that landed that day. There was a unique challenge.
The TONEZ
The analog film community also has its quirks an oldie but a goodie. Fuji 400 is the first film stock I’ve tried, so don’t have much basis of comparison, but the look seems quite nice. There is a lot of grain which might be the result of sharpening from the home scanned version of these pictures, which might be a result of the 400 speed film — I’m wondering if the lab scans have some grain reduction applied (and also they are scanned at a lower res from the lab — since I’m cheap).