Alright, I am going to the event and shoot some pictures with my digital SLR camera. But, ... what lenses should I carry with me? If you are a photographer like me, you had situation like this. You simply can not haul along all your photography equipment with you. That is not practical most of the time. If you are going to take pictures of flowers in your local conservatory, your 500mm lens will not be the most useful. Similarly, it will not be of much use to carry a 100mm macro lens when shooting (with your camera) animals in a wildlife park, or a 70-200mm tele lens for architecure photography, or a superwide 10-22mm zoom for an air show like this. So what I took with me is my faithful 18-200mm zoom, and a 100-400mm super tele lens borrowed from a good friend. Most of the pictures I took were in 100-300mm range.

The 18-200mm provides the flexibility of covering a wide range of focal length without changing lens, allowing me to capture most of the aerobatic maneuvers with a single lens. Whereas the 100-400mm was coming in handy when the planes were moving further away.

A loop like the one above would not be possible with a long lens. This picture was taken with the focal length set at around 28mm.

To get a big close-ups like the one below, 400mm was the only option.

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