Late night chopper flight

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all
A couple of nights ago I was overnighting up the street from a hospital to find the emergency chopper coming & going twice the same night. The first time I just watched for interest, but when it returned later I grabbed the Panny for some grab shots - all hand held

1) chopper coming in to land on helipad, under strong floodlights

exif- Panny FZ-200; 1/60s x F2,8; EV -1,0; lens @ 250mm [FF equiv]; ISO-1600

2) Touchdown

exif- Panny FZ-200; 1/25s x F2,8; EV -1,0; lens @ 250mm [FF equiv]; ISO-1600

No pp for noise control / exposure etc applied above

As always - feedback welcome
Phil

[seaslug]

Tough gig to capture that!

[Isac]

I agree with Greg, not easy to get the lighting right for that. At least you have it

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day fellas

Yes - it was not an easy set of images to do, heaps of tech things against it working - but I am amazed at the difference between this and back in film days [with iso-1600 as the max available & a lens of maybe F5,6 max aperture]

and here's 2 more pics from the following night...
a)


b)

Exif again ... Panny FZ-200; 1/40s x F2,8; lens at 415mm [FF equiv]; iso-3200; hand held

Phil

[seaslug]

These last two worked much better. Pretty damn good for hand held!

[Isac]

Better work with these Phil. They catch the moment and that's all you need in these situations. Detail is good to get the people in the chopper.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Thanks fellas .... and yet again I am pleasantly surprised at what the small sensor of the FZ-200 can deliver
Phil