Brandon took his brand-spanking new D40 along for its first real outing for the Shuttle Launch.
For the camera nerds, he used a Nikon D40 with a Nikkor 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 VR on Auto everything and shot jpg's, I used my Nikon D70s with a Tokina AT-X Pro 80-200 f/2.8 and 2x extender, stopped down to f/5.6 and shot RAW. We both used burst mode and spot metering because of the saturating brightness of the booster rocket flames.
Take a look at his fantastic pictures at his blog.
Other tidbits, I shot on my tripod (being that I had 600 mm equivalent focal length lens) and kept the shutter above 1/400 th, Brandon shot hand held with VR on / active mode. We both used San Disc Ultra II's. Thanks to Stephen for loaning his Ultra II SD card for the shoot, we wouldn't have 1/10 th the pictures we do with out it. Despite what some camera shop assistants and "experts" think, card speed can and does matter when you are shooting, especially in burst mode.
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