N177MB is a 4 place
single engine Cessna Cardinal with a 180hp Lycoming engine. It
is fully equipped with an IFR approved GPS
navigational system complete with a moving map, as well as a
stormscope and a TCAD for locating and avoiding other airborne
traffic. Our range is 5 hours between fuel stops at 140 mph.
It has flown nearly 7000 hours now on photo assignments all over the
country.
All of our
aerial photos are taken either from the specially constructed
opening side window for obliques
or through the camera port we had installed in its floor for verticals.
(Click on the photo at the right for a bigger view.)
Prior to 2004 all of our
aerial photography was shot using a Hasselblad FCW2000 with a power winder.
This gave us a negative area much larger than 35mm film. With the
1/2000 shutter speed and the large negative size, all those images are guaranteed to be SHARP! With six lenses from which to choose ranging
from 50mm to 350mm, we produced a wide variety of images on each
assignment and all those images are available.
However, in recent years we have switched almost
entirely to digital capture. We currently use a Canon EOS 1Ds M3 which
does an amazing job with 21.1 megapixels! With a number of lenses at our disposal we can now
provide photos on the same day the images are shot when it is necessary, and
our creative options are so much greater!
We have now closed our
chemical lab and replaced it with a wonderful new Epson 9800 wide bodied
printer. Now we can print archival quality photos up to 44"
wide by any length, and we can edit the photos before printing including
the addition of graphics if desired! We
can now tap into all the creative possibilities with
everything from corrective enhancement to montages, signs, trade show
booth backdrops and even murals using our aerial photos!
Check out our "virtual mattes" for a neat, new
framing option.
We now have two high end PCs with
dual processors, an ever expanding amount of hard drive capacity, 2GB RAM memory
each, and all the trimmings
that drive the printer discussed above.
We have a good quality scanner for digitizing our older negatives as well as prints, and
we are doing our best to stay on top of all the exciting new possibilities
for utilizing our aerial photos.
We can add graphics to your photos with site
boundaries, road labels, dates, north arrows, etc. With our new
printer, you can dream BIG! We can handle any size prints you can
envision! We design brochures, post cards, business cards, sell sheets,
etc., from your aerial photos and can give you a truly professional and
cost effective product. We also have a rugged laptop computer that
goes with us in the airplane and runs moving map software either as road
maps or as flight charts when connected with the plane's GPS and can
even display real time weather.
All one and the same -
Marge Beaver - so when "We", that's Marge, the airplane, the
camera, and the Good Lord (not necessarily in that order),
promise a result, you know exactly what kind of effort and commitment will
go into it!
If interested, you can listen to a
radio talk show
interview of me and my business. If you can't find the link on
that page to the pod-cast, you can access it directly
here. Be patient as it loads rather slowly.
All photos on these pages are copyrighted.
Unlawful to reproduce in any form without our permission. Marge Beaver, Photography
Plus - 231-798-2395 or 866-300-9691 (toll free)
1571 Goody Rd., Muskegon, MI 49441
