Canon SX50 Specs (1 Viewer)

[crazyfingers]

Hi crazyfingers
Thanks for your reply - were any of them keepers?
Jont

Well, I guess if I liked airplane photos sure. But I have mainly done it just for fun and deleted. I'll try to catch one today if I can.

 

[crazyfingers]

By the way, I find vintage aircraft down low more likely to be keepers because I find them more interesting. These were only a couple thousand feet. The bombers are likely not at full zoom because I only had seconds to shoot as they went by my house.

 

[foxtango]

Crazyfingers - you are indeed, very helpful - many thanks for your time.
Thank you for posting your shots of the C-47, Liberator and B-17 (I think I have those right - maybe the experts will correct me!!!).
A trailing shot would be great - thank you!!!
Jont

 

[crazyfingers]

No problem. Your ID's are correct. The B-17 and B-24 are operated by these folks. http://www.collingsfoundation.org/menu.htm

They also have a P-51. Attached.

I don't know what the story is with the C-47. It had Just flown out of the Bar Harbor, ME airport.

For Kicks I just googled up C-47 and the tail number 224064 and there are a ton of photos of that airplane on the internet.

 

[foxtango]

Great information. Thank you again.
Jont

 

[crazyfingers]

No jets today and then it clouded over. I'll try again tomorrow.

But I found this, totally different thing, while checking my photos for jets.

This is Orion's belt in the constellation Orion and the fuzz in the middle is the Orion nebula. I'm sure I took this while resting my arms on the car but no tripod.

I'm pretty sure I used handheld night-shot mode for this.

 

[foxtango]

Now come on crazyfingers - I'm only asking you to check a humble plane cruising at 31,000 feet (ish) - I think asking the 50 to snap something 1300 light-years away is pushing the envelope somewhat!!!
Great shot by the way and many thanks for sharing it!! I really appreciate your time.
Jont

 

[HermitIbis]

foxtango, if you google for "sx50 plane feet" there are three videos at youtube. And searching for pictures finds many more examples. But it seems the specialists prefer astro-scopes plus dslr for this very special task.

 

[foxtango]

HermitIbis - Thank you very much for that - very interesting.
Jont (foxtango).

 

[crazyfingers]

Weird how there are so few jets going over when you are actually looking for them. Not one all today but if I see one tomorrow photograph it. I'll probably see several tonight in the dark though as they go Northeast over Boston on the way to Europe. Not going to try photographing them.

 

[foxtango]

Yes - over here they all arrive early morning from America and usually depart early afternoon - so we are blessed with seeing them during daylight hours.....
I'm very grateful to you, thank you.
Jont

 

[crazyfingers]

Yes - over here they all arrive early morning from America and usually depart early afternoon - so we are blessed with seeing them during daylight hours.....
I'm very grateful to you, thank you.
Jont

Here's a jet for you. It's one of those rare days it was making no contrail that I could see. I only located it late because I could hear it but had to hunt.

These attached are the same photo. One is cropped to roughly 1600x1200 to attach and the other is resized to 1600x1200 to attach. Looks like a Delta Airlines and best guess a 767 or 777. I fly enough to know my airplanes from the side but twin engine jets from the underside are not my specialty

It's optical at 215mm I think the 2x teleconverter. At least 1.5x. I've had sharper photos. This is probably average. Like I mentioned, the air between the camera and the plane makes for big differences in quality.

It's heading southwest largely into the sun.

If I see more today I'll give it another try.

 

[crazyfingers]

I just heard another go by. Damn without a contrail it's hard. You don't hear them until they are 1/3 across the sky and they are ahead of where the sound is coming from and you don't know what direction. Speed of light vs speed of sound makes a it hard without those trails.

 

[Stonefaction]

Think that is a 767 (don't think any 777 have winglets fitted - though could be wrong).

It is possible to see overflights online (or on smartphone) via various websites (and associated apps) such as Flightradar24, Radarbox24. I believe that in the USA the FAA supply the data but it is 5 minutes delayed. However if you can work out where an aircraft is displayed on screen, when you have it directly overhead you can be prepared for it passing overhead, or work out what you are photographing. You get the flight number, type, altitude and speed plus departure/destination locations etc.

 

[crazyfingers]

One more. This is also going Southwest. The marking are unfamiliar to me. Likely a European airline. This plane and the one I posted previously were likely coming from Europe. There are no significant North American airports Northeast of Boston that would account for these planes but flights arriving from Europe would. It's early afternoon so the time of day is right.

Once again these are the same photo. One is cropped to about 1600x1200 and the other resizes to 1600x1200. This time I know that they are at Max optical and the 2xteleconverter and these were set on superfine JPG.

Have a red-tail hawk as a bonus.

 

[foxtango]

Hi - many thanks crazyfingers. Pretty sure that the first one is Delta 91 from Dublin to JFK - that's if you took the photo in
Massachusetts - it was the only one around you at the time logged on your EXIF data - yes a B767 - 36,000ft, travelling southwest. Yes the SX 50 is struggling a bit here - but as you say - atmospherics are getting in the way!! Great catch though!!
Jont

 

[crazyfingers]

Hi - many thanks crazyfingers. Pretty sure that this is Delta 91 from Dublin to JFK - that's if you took the photo in
Massachusetts - it was the only one around you at the time logged on your EXIF data - yes a B767 - 36,000ft, travelling southwest. Yes the SX 50 is struggling a bit here - but as you say - atmospherics are getting in the way!! Great catch though!!
Jont

Yes my camera does seem to have flipped over to standard time correctly so the time-stamp is correct. And I'm roughly 20 miles south of Boston, MA.

I'm guessing that in addition to birding you're an airplane hobbyist?

 

[foxtango]

Sure am - can't get a positive ID on the second plane - looks like it may not have been 'broadcasting' its data...
The colours have a bit of a look of EA AL (Israeli Airlines - their old colours)
Jont

 

[crazyfingers]

By the way, that C-47 from the other day, it appears that it was over to Europe for the D-Day remembrances this past summer. It's actually owned by a Brit but based in Connecticut, USA. My guess is that it stopped in at the Bar Harbor, ME airport to fuel-up on it's way home from Europe.

If it is privately owned by some rich guy, Bar Harbor is where a rich guy would want to stop.

 

[Stonefaction]

Think the second one is Alitalia.