It was my first visit to AIR SHOW in Radom, which took place during last weekend of August. I knew, it was different from well known air shows in Goraszka and
Cracow, because the first role played military aircrafts here. Airport in Radom is medium size one with concrete runways, so most of aircrafts could land here. From the very beginning I was interested if I could shoot good pictures using my 25 years old SLR camera. I expected problems with jet fighters flying faster than other aircrafts. Longer distance to audience was another expected problem. As I predicted, the biggest problem caused by my camera was lack of possibility to shoot pictures in series. Modern cameras allow to take more than two pictures per second, while I had to advance film to next position manually after each taken picture. It was very difficult to decide when to shoot while acrobatics were displayed – no replay was possible. Another problem was caused by too short zoom: 200 mm is not enough for such kind of photography. Anyway I took a lot of pictures. Even quality of some is very low, in some cases I decided to include them in my show, just to increase it’s dynamics. Eight hours of the air show, without a break to rest, impressed me very much. In my opinion it was nice aviation event even not everything was well organized. For example, there were too few ticket counters. Anyway I liked this AIR SHOW and there is no doubt that I will come back to Radom in the future. Although I was collecting data very carefully, I afraid that it was impossible to avoid some mistakes. In the case of any doubts, please do not hesitate to contact me. As usual, I would be very grateful for any information allowing me to fix the bugs. Welcome to my slide show from Radom. Adam Wiktor Kamela |