Ground Photos

[TaxingNathan 0]

Looking at maybe getting a cam to take stills of formations and such from ground.

Any Suggs?

[freefalle 0]

Depends on what you want to spend, do you want 35 mm or digital? Are you going to shoot formations from the ground or are you going to shoot people landing? That being said if it was me and money being a consideration I would go with the digital rebel XT about 900.00 US. As for lenses, for shots of people landing I would probably go with something like a 28 to 105mm. Quantary makes an okay lens at that length for about 150. Quantary also makes a fairly good 70-300 lens for about 170.00. Those two lenses will give you a pretty good range for shooting the ground stuff at a reasonable price. Granted there not the top of the line 500.00 to 1000.00 ++ dollar lenses but unless your shooting professional grade stuff thats getting published why spend alot of money?

If you cant afford a high priced digital camera, Cannon also makes a good line of 35 mm cameras that will work well for you.


I started with the 35 mm cannon. I shoot landings, tandem photos and formation loads eventually I moved up to the digital rebel and next week Im going to up grade to a rebel XT for freefall photography I use anything between a 15mm and a 28mm depending on what Im shooting. On the ground I use the lenses I described above. The combination has proved to work well for me so far. good luck

[namgrunt 0]

Nikon D-70

SIGMA 50-500 lens

EPSON R 1800 printer

P4 computer with 4 mb ram

works for me

sometimes use a nikor 18/50 lens

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[Icon134 0]

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P4 computer with 4 mb ram

This doesn't seem like a whole lot of ram for a photo processing Computer.

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[MB38 0]

I happened to have a Canon EOS Digital Rebel and their non-IS 300mm lens handy one day at Perris. Sure enough, there were a few big ways going on that day, so I got to play around with it a little bit.

Here is a full resolution example. The jumpers were about 5,000 feet overhead at this point. I was shooting handheld at ISO 400. The shutter speed should've been 1/4000th, but I was shooting wide open and manually focusing... two of the elements that had an effect on the focus of this image.

Here are smaller crops from other pictures I took that day. Almost all of those pictures were taken with the 300mm.

I really don't know what I'm talking about.