Thanks for your comments. I am a Bell Helicopter Military
Technical Representative assigned with the 4/7th Cav. I get to go
with them wherever they go. Photography is my hobby so I have
become the unoffical Squadron photographer.
I bought the 100-400 lens especially for the gunnery exercise and
it worked great. Nearly every picture I took was with the 100-400
lens. I needed as much zoom and IS as I could get since the
aircraft would be moving from hundreds of meters away to closeup
and then zooming away to hundreds of meters again in less than
thirty seconds. I also used a Gitzo 2200 tripod with a Kirk H-3
ball head and a Wimberly Sidkick. All this worked perfectly
together with the lens and the D60. I was worried about all the
dust and the push/pull zoom on the lens but it does not appear to
have been a problem. Dust got on everything but I don't see any
inside the lens. I did get dust inside the camera but was able to
clean it without too much problem. I started seeing spots on some
of the photos that were taken with a tight f/stop. I cleaned the
internal filter carefully with canned air first and then with
cleaning solvent and several Q-tips.
As a matter of interest, how come you got to go? Were you part of
the exercise? or a civilian addition?
How do you like the 100-400L? Looks like you get good results with
it. Were all these photos taken with this lens?
Thanks again
-DAB
Hi everyone;
I have just finished photographing a month long Gunnery Exercise
with the 4/7th Cav Squadron in South Korea. I have posted the
first batch of pictures at
http://www.pbase.com/bebber/47th_cav_gunnery . Please check them
out and let me know what you think. I used a Canon D60 camera with
a 100-400 L series lens.
Thanks for your comments.
