Margate big sky - day 2

Another fabulous day at Margate, this time much more windy though. In fact too much wind for much of the day. When I left home Maidstone was shrouded in fog and there was absolutely no wind. It didn't look very promising. By Faversham, the fog had gone, but it was still very cloudy, but Margate was in sunshine.

Gerty Nagged me to launch either the (new) leek, or the owl. In the end, we went for both. The leek is most impressive! Before long, the wind was at its playful best, resulting in most of the lifters coming to the ground. The owl was allowed to fly on its own for a while, and the leek was left out all day as a ground bouncer, and still worked fine.

To more mundane subject and KAP. I'd repaired the rig and was ready to go. In the conditions, I decided to take pity on Matt and come down to a 56 inch Rok. The conditions were very playful, which meant we did not get very stable flight, but we toured the main arena clicking away. However, when we recovered kite and camera, I was disappointed to find most shots were over exposed. I'm using a custm setting of shutter priority with Canon "safeshot". I have the speed set at 1/2000 and the idea is that safeshot should adjust the speed to the highest it can get away with in the conditions. Looking at the exif data for some of the photographs, it seems as if it is taking all pictures at 1/250 and f4. This is most annoying, but I will have to experiment with the settings to see if I can find out exactly what is going on. I may be able to recover some of the pictures once I have processed them. I've been experimenting with RAW image data. The file sizes are mighty big, which take a long time to write to the card. This means I can't get as many shots per outing as with jpeg files. I will have to lok at tweaking the file size. I've also got a fairly steep learning curve in understanding how to process the raw files to get the best out of them, but hey, its all good fun? Meanwhile, I'm seriously of going back to the digital Elph 400!

So hopefully, I'll get a couple of decent images out of the trip, which will end up on Flickr.