Chris, in doing aerial mapping work for 4 years, I learned a couple of things. Don't shoot anything slower than 1/500 and 1/1000 is even better. There is going to be a lot of vibration from the chopper and I found the best thing to do was let my body absorb the vibration. Try not to lean on anything that will transfer vibration to the camera. Also, use a haze filter. There is a lot more haze there than you think there is. This is one of those instances where they really have a purpose. I would just expose normally unless there was a lot of sky in the picture. Good luck. It's a blast.
Ken On Monday 26 August 2002 06:46 pm, Chris Brogden wrote: > I have a chance to do some aerial photography from a helicopter, and > I was wondering if there were any tricks or not-so-obvious things > that I need to know. I've heard that it's best to overexpose by a > stop or two to prevent the camera's meter from being tricked by the > brightness, but I'm not sure how accurate this is. Any thoughts or > suggestions? I'll be using a Pentax body or two with some fast glass > and a beanbag (do they help?), but I'll be bringing along a Canon > Elan 7 with the 28-135 USM IS lens just to try the Image > Stabilization. Any help or tips would be appreciated. Thanks! > > chris -- Kenneth Archer, San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
