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Tom’s World – 10OCT2024 – Museum Aircraft – 6

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All of these shots save the Spookies were from US Naval museum and the Spookies were from the Air Force museum at Eglin AFB.

 

F4 Corsair, one of the, if not the premium fighter aircraft of WWII. Corsairs were still in frontline duty 10 years later after all the others were long retired.

A F18 F/A retired from the Blue Angels

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Another view of the F4 Corsair

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A US Marine Corps Vertical take off and landing Harrier. This was originally a pure British design and produced (and used) aircraft. Falkland Islands, remember? When the US Marines thought the Harrier was spot on, it was injected with some US DNA and produced by McDonald Douglas in the US.

2 views of the original Spooky Gunship made famous in the VietNam era. It was based on the WWII era C47 AKA, DC3 & and was armed with .308 (7.62×51 NATO designation) miniguns and could put on quite a night time display, filling the sky with tracers. The gunship concept was considered to be highly successful and has since evolved considerably, currently C130 based and with a variety of types of lethal weapons of various calibers up to and including 105mm howitzers of (ironically) also of Viet Nam vintage.

 

 

 

Tom’s World – 09SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 1

Tom’s World – 18SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 2

Tom’s World – 25SEP2024 – Museum Aircraft – 3

Tom’s World – 02OCT2024 – Museum Aircraft – 4

Tom’s World – 10OCT2024 – Museum Aircraft – 5

Focus Bracketing Inside the Sony A7 IV – Part 1

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Well, I couldn’t resist. I went on Sony’s website and found the pages with the firmware update (4.00). But upon reading the instructions I found out that since my firmware was at version 1.01, I had to first update my camera to version 1.05 before updating to version 4.00. The warning said that if I went straight to 4.00 it would cause an error and then I wouldn’t be able to fix the problem. Well, the camera gods are a jealous bunch and defying them is very unwise so along with many a grumble and even a few mumbles I went through the procedure twice.
1.01 to 1.05
1.05 to 4.00
And what do you know? It really worked. The drive menu had new options that included focus bracketing. After following the instructions from a YouTube video, I was able to quickly and easily run a quick bracket on a preserved tarantula spider specimen and send it through my focus stacking program (Affinity Photo) and, voila, edge to edge sharpness.

Now this was just a quick test. I had a kid’s party starting and barely got the files stacked before I had to go referee grandkids for Camera Girl. But it was definitely a proof of concept and I can see how this will work for even some field shots. Definitely usable for macro shots of plants like mushrooms and such and even for resting or sedate creatures like resting dragonflies and such. Of course, butterflies are out of the question. But a little testing is bound to bring up other applications.
So, all in all, this is an amazing surprise from Sony. Kudos to them for hearing my cries in the wilderness. Bravo, gentlemen, bravo.