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So my wife and I left the house at 3:30AM this morning for the 35 mile drive to Albuquerque and the Park and Ride bus we took out to the Balloon Park. This is Sunday the 15th of October and the last day of the 2017 Balloon Fiesta.
We got to the park early and I headed straight for the Canon tent where I was able to "check out" (they had loaners) the new Canon 5D Mark IV. They even gave me a 16GB SanDisk Ultra to keep! I was very excited end couldn't wait to take lots of balloon pictures with the 5D4!
At the morning pilot briefing they said the wind speed was too high initially to even do the morning glow, but they "hoped" it would calm down enough to launch once the sun came up. Well, the sun came up but the wind did not calm down enough. There were a few balloons that inflated (very briefly) but overall the morning was a bust as far as Balloons go.
Nevertheless I did get to shoot lots of people pictures and a few semi-inflated balloons with the 5D4. It was similar enough to my 7DII that I had no problem at all getting things set the way I wanted them.
The first thing I noticed when I got home and put the RAW pics in LR was the rather large file size.
We got to the park early and I headed straight for the Canon tent where I was able to "check out" (they had loaners) the new Canon 5D Mark IV. They even gave me a 16GB SanDisk Ultra to keep! I was very excited end couldn't wait to take lots of balloon pictures with the 5D4!
At the morning pilot briefing they said the wind speed was too high initially to even do the morning glow, but they "hoped" it would calm down enough to launch once the sun came up. Well, the sun came up but the wind did not calm down enough. There were a few balloons that inflated (very briefly) but overall the morning was a bust as far as Balloons go.
Nevertheless I did get to shoot lots of people pictures and a few semi-inflated balloons with the 5D4. It was similar enough to my 7DII that I had no problem at all getting things set the way I wanted them.
The first thing I noticed when I got home and put the RAW pics in LR was the rather large file size.
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