9 :15 AM We set up the motorized panoramic head on the parapet of the tower. We Installed on it 2 Canon 5D Mark II (21.1 MP) each with a 300 mm f4.0 with a tele converter in order to get a 600mm /f8.0 needed to beat the record. The use of 2 cameras we simply to reduce the shooting time for half.
The cameras were been set as follows:
* 300mm f4.0 with a tele converter 2x (equivalent 600mm f8.0)
* Manual focus. We used the Live View (zoom and pan) to get a very precise focus control.
* Priority diaphragm F13 (to have a bigger depth of field)
* Iso 800
* Speed 1/800 in order to reduce the heat haze
* Recording in RAW
* Compact Flash 16GB
* The motorized head triggers the cameras.