The Temora Aviation Museum is built on the site of a WWII Tiger Moth training base. Today it is home to a noteworthy collection of Warbirds, flown regularly by former RAAF pilots including an F-18 instructor and three retired Air Commodores.
I arrived with an N75 loaded with Portra 800 and a hired Sigma 150-500mm that proved far better than I had hoped. The few shots I took wide open were unusable with erratic exposures, strong vignetting and very soft images. However at f/8 everything improved dramatically from 150 to 400mm. Even the 500mm setting is more than acceptable at f/11. I will be happy to hire this lens again.
Very bright overcast skies and rain squalls proved a challenge to the matrix metering of the N75. I allowed two stops for the glaring backlighting but that was not enough in most cases. Those shots have a most un-Portra like graininess. Next time I will overexpose by three stops if shooting into bright white clouds. I will also try metering at ground level and shooting on manual.
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I tried my hand at getting some propeller blur, using the vibration reduction (OS) feature of the lens. This required a 1/125 shutter speed which in turn required an overexposure of two stops. Portra 800 works brilliantly at any rating from 100 to 500 so this strategy worked well.
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The museum itself has several areas containing impressive displays of equipment, stories from original pilots, history of the aircraft and video presentations of the Warbirds as they flew in service. The first shot is of a badly faded giant transparency showing their Spitfire Mk VIII, Vampire T-35, Meteor F.8 and Canberra (B-57).
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My B&W camera was an N90s, BW400CN with a Voigtländer 40mm.
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