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 THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The photographs taken on this web site have been taken by Peregrine Bush. Based in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom and a professional cartographer (map-maker) by trade he finds himself out about with plenty of opportunity for photography. He is a enthusiastic photographer and his main area of photography is military aviation, being brought up with many airfields in East Anglia during the late 80s and early 90s. As a keen aviation enthusiast for many years, taking photographs of military aircraft at the many airfields operated by the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force was good, sadly numbers of airshows and airfields around East Anglia has declined in recent years after the fall of communisum around Europe. A large collection of prints from non-digital cameras is now in boxes, but the digital era in camera technology allows for photography to be shared through web sites and e-mail. This site is Peregrine's view of the world.
Peregrine bought his first non-digital SLR camera several years ago using a Canon 300V and found to get good results. When the new digital version of the 300V came out he wandered down to the nearest camera shop and purchased the Canon 300D. This camera is not the most professional of cameras but has proven, with the right lens, to produce good quality imagery for printing and displaying on web sites. In the summer of 2008 we have upgraded our equipment to the Canon 30D.
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THE MAPS
I am a professional cartographer and my normal job is working for the Petroleum Economist in London working on large format sheet maps of the oil and gas industry. I have also worked for a cartographic bureau on projects for British Airways/Racal Aerad Charts, Dorling Kinderley, Insight Guides plus many others. I have 14 years of experience creating maps and felt that the aviation enthusiast could do with some specific maps relating to UK airfields. I have tried to encompass all aspects of spotting including the operator, units and aircraft type. The airfields radio frequencies and the good locations for photography.
The airfield guide maps are produced using Adobe Freehand MX and the Adobe Creative Suite 3 software. Imagery from Google maps is cartographically digitised so it can be altered and adjusted as needed.
It normally takes a week to produce each map. They are published in Adobe PDF format and are free to print out from this site.
I would like to thank the many people who have assited me in the production of the maps especially the members of Fighter Control, UK Airshow Review and Fox2 forums for the excellent on the ground feedback.
If you have any comments or requests please let me know Web Master
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THE EQUIPMENT
Canon 30D Digital Single Lens Reflex camera. The Canon 30D has a very accurate 9-point autofocus system that can utilize both normal and high-precision focus depending on the aperture and current light conditions. The user can either choose 9 focus points manually using a thumb-operated controller on the back, or the camera can select the points automatically.
The Canon 30D has six pre-set image modes:
- Standard: for crisp, vivid images that don't require post-processing
- Portrait: optimizes color tone and saturation and weakens sharpening to achieve attractive skin tones
- Landscape: for punchier greens and blues with stronger sharpening to give a crisp edge to mountain, tree, and building outlines
- Neutral: ideal for post-processing
- Faithful: adjusts color to match the subject color when shot under a color temperature of 5200K
- Monochrome: for black and white shooting with a range of filter effects (yellow, orange, red, and green) and toning effects (sepia, blue, purple, and green)
The Canon 30D is also plenty fast. It's ready to go as soon as you are, with a startup time of only 0.15 seconds. Shutter lag is difficult to measure at only 65 milliseconds. In continuous shooting mode, the 30D can take up to 30 JPEG and 11 RAW (or 9 RAW + JPEG) photos in succession at speeds up to 5.0fps.
Of course, the Canon 30D is compatible with Canon's rich variety of EF and EF-S lenses. A BG-E2 battery grip can also be added to the base of the camera to increase the camera's battery life and improve handling.
Key Features
- 8.2-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
- Large 2.5-inch LCD monitor that can be viewed at extreme angles up to 170 degrees
- High- and low-speed consecutive shooting (5 frames and 3 frames per second, respectively)
- Fully compatible with all EF and EF-S Lenses and a wide range of EOS system accessories (no lenses included)
- Powered by a lithium-ion battery pack; stores images on CF cards
Specifications
- Model Name: EOS-30D
- Model: EOS-30D
- Item Package Quantity: 1
- Included Flash Type: Pop-up flash
- Red-eye reduction: Y
- form_factor: Built-in
- Display: LCD display
- display_technology: TFT active matrix
- Display Size: 2.5 inches
- video_input: Digital camera
- light_sensitivity: ISO auto (100-400), ISO 100-1600, ISO 3200
- Image types: JPEG, RAW
- video_input_special_effects: Faithful, Landscape, Portrait, Monotone, Neutral
- Exposure Control Type: Landscape, Portrait mode, Close-up, Night portrait, Sports mode
- optical_sensor_resolution: 8.2 MP
- optical_sensor_technology: CMOS
- optical_sensor_size: 15.0 x 22.5mm
- Viewfinder Type: Optical
- audio_input: None
- Width: 5.7 inches
- Depth: 2.9 inches
- Height: 4.2 inches
- Weight: 3.5 pounds
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THE SITE
The web site was founded in 2007 has many elements to it and he has tried to split up the types of photography he takes. You will see that the largest section is aviation but this is by no means all the photos he takes. Other areas are Landscape pictures of the countryside and in urban areas, flower and wildlife pictures and sports.
Please fell free to browse the site and if you want any of the pictures it can be arranged for them to be sent to you or if you want to get them printed. The majority of images are good enough for A4 prints and might stretch to A3.
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THE COPYRIGHT & DISCLAIMER
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Any information within this site is based upon or drawn from various sources. PB-Photos.com cannot therefore accept any liability or responsibility for any loss or damage and indeed would be grateful to receive notification of any errors or inconsistencies (e-mail Web Master). No reproduction whatsoever of this site or any part thereof is permitted without the prior consent of the copyright owners.
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