Hi Graham, thanks for your message. Your sentiments parallel the views of both Hanover and Mobitec. Essentially a slow shutter speed of 1/30sec or blitzing. As you say the skill is judging where to blitz so that all three images are where you need the vehicle to be in the composition. From my point of view, if they end up a record shot I can crop down to 50% and still have a sharp image for the web or being a keen photoshop man I could pinch the display from one of my other pictures.
Regards Martin Bray, Swansea, UK Stagecoach Cymru... http://www.stagecoach-cymru.co.uk --- On Mon, 31/10/11, Graham Smith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Graham Smith <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Help - Photographing Stagecoach Destination Blinds To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 31 October, 2011, 12:59 I think we all find the problem with led blinds, however like others I do almost always find taking a burst of 2 or 3 shots you will either get the 2nd one or the middle of 3 with the blind showing. Then review and delete the ones that are trash. The practise is in knowing when taking a moving vehicle when to fire off the 1st one - that will be black and is thus trash - so that the shot with the blind showing is reasonably centred in the frame. This bit comes down to a bit of trail & error and a bit of practise to hone your skill on timings. Stationary is pretty easy but not always possible, plus in high summer you really can't use a 1/60 speed as everything is white-out I've always found a approximate multiple of 60 for the shutter speed to work, so 1/125; 180; 250; 320; 640; 1250 are ok, shutter speeds that aren't a rough multiple of 60 don't - 1/500; 800; 1000; 1600. Is the same on my current Sony NEX3 and previous Kyocera M410R. The quirk of using a "toy-digi" camera with a screen is that you can actually see the led's refreshing... GS On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: Yes, Stagecoach use Hanover as do First, Arriva and the majority of other companies (unless they have acquired vehicles with others through takeovers etc). There are also many however that opt for Mobitec, particularly smaller companies and independents. Newport Bus is an example of one. I don't know any of the technical stuff so unfortunately I can't tell you their actual refresh rate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/welsh-bus-photographs/-/PxPO_zUtZEQJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en.
