Category Archives: Slope Soaring

Its still very cold in the UK. A light NE wind, which put the flying on the north slope. This isnt my favourite slope as its covered with trees and quite challenging, especially the landing, as it is on a narrow ridge. The covering of trees on the slope means one mistake and you have a major headache recovering the model, where ever it goes down.
A point of note is this is the first video ive shot with my sony Nex camera. I used a head mounting system, and since it was the first try, alignment is not exactly perfect. But it gave some good shots. I used 16mm, 24mm and 42mm. It was recorded at 1080 25p and rendered at 720 25P using Sony Vegas. At 42mm, it gave some great shots, but most of the footage was junked as it was out of shot. It will take some time before i get familiar of the alightments at various focal lengths.
It captured the light pretty well, it was very high contrast, with some bright and very dark patches. I used F8, centre weighted metering and -0,5 exposure compensation.