Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/OY-DIZ SAI KZ IV landing Danish Air Show 2014-06-23.jpg

SAI KZ IV edit

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Original – The only still functional KZ IV ambulance aircraft with registration OY-DIZ landing at Danish Air Show 2014. Built by Skandinavisk Aero Industri with first flight on May 4, 1944. Restored to its wartime configuration after a crash in 1977. In 1949, the OY-DIZ was christened with the name Folke Bernadotte in honour of the Swedish count who had used this very aircraft to make a diplomatic visit to Germany to negotiate for the release of Danish prisoners in German concentration camps near the end of the war.

Reason: A unique aircraft restored to its wartime configuration with an interesting history taken in good light conditions with good timing while landing.
Articles in which this image appears: SAI KZ IV
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
Creator: Slaunger

Support as nominator – Slaunger (talk) 09:19, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Good EV, but it's a crop of an original which doesn't make the pixel count and indeed the definition isn't as high as I should like to see in a Featured Picture. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 09:56, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- reply It is correct it has been cropped from an original 16 Mpixels down to a little over 7 Mpixels. Yet that is still well above the minimum file size. When photographing relatively fast moving object while panning, I tend to zoom out a bit as it can be hard to exactly frame the object as intended the moment things happens, and it is then easier to crop a bit afterwards. This aircraft only landed once, so it was the only chance I had. I think the less-than-optimal resolution is compensated by excellent light. I admit though, that my gear was miserable compared to the gear used by the pro aviation photographers at the same event:-) --Slaunger (talk) 10:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, I beg your pardon. I missed the note about the original file size in the original image. Happy to support now below. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 16:51, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per above remarks. Nice image. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 16:49, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - As good EV as we could expect for a plane like this. Technical quality is good too. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:35, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:14, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV--Godot13 (talk) 15:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV - talk→ WPPilot 00:26, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:OY-DIZ SAI KZ IV landing Danish Air Show 2014-06-23.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:25, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]