By Keiran Wilkinson with contributions from Howard Bassant

One of the highlights of our COAP Online community calendar is the High Roller, our monthly competition where members share their best images based on a specific, challenging theme. These usually occur exclusively within our member communit...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

Manual mode gets misunderstood as a “hard mode”. In aviation photography, it’s often the opposite. It’s the simplest way to make your exposure predictable and your creative choices repeatable.

The real problem: the background won’t sit still

At an airsh...

By Keiran Wilkinson

As many members of the COAP community know, I have been a devoted user of the Olympus E-M1X for the last couple of years, and before that, various Olympus EM-1 cameras. For me, Olympus (now OM System) cameras defined reliability. My E-M1X was a tough camera that  I could trust i...

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, by COAP Online

If Lightroom ever feels like a maze of sliders, it’s usually because the edit started without a goal.

In aviation photography, “pretty good” edits often fall apart in one specific way: the aircraft looks like it belongs to one style, but the background a...

By Keiran Wilkinson with contributions from Dave Griffiths

One of the highlights of our COAP Online community calendar is the High Roller, our monthly competition where members share their best images based on a specific, challenging theme. These usually occur exclusively within our member communit...

By Kev Baxter

It was not just the friends of Jean-Baptiste Salis who had a passion for aviation.  Kev Baxter reports from the recent Ian Allan Aviation Tour to France, where the wrecks and relics may have been crusty and weather-beaten, but the allure of Gallic aviation kept them young, sprightly a...

By Aled Phillips

Clifton Cameras Quarterly Tech Round-up Q2 2025

A slower Q2 for 2025 after a bumper start with lots of exciting releases in quick succession as the new year came into effect.

I’m pleased to say I’ve managed to get hands on with a lot of the list from Q1, and some standout favouri...

By Dave Lockwood

With this years Spotters Day being such a success it couldn’t get any better could it? With some
trepidation we moved to the Mountains of the Peloponnese in search of low flying aircraft.

Whilst the first week of the exercise proved to be fruitful, the second hadn’t with a combinat...

By Dave Lockwood

Returning to Andravida for a third Iniochos Spotters Day, I spent the week nervously looking at the
weather forecast. The previous two trips had involved Saharan dust, a thunderstorm and a mighty
deluge, that I’m surprised I still haven’t dried out from.

Packing wet weather gear for...

By Wayne Kenward

Using Your Synology NAS with Lightroom Classic – Part 4

If you haven’t already done it, sign up to the COAP Academy,  Rich and Tom will cover the Lightroom catalogue and folder structures. 

Lightroom Catalogue and Images

It is critical the Lightroom catalogue runs on a local dr...

By Wayne Kenward

Accounts, Mobile Apps and Desktop Apps

Synology Account - https://account.synology.com/ Set up an account, you will need this to register you NAS and manage support tickets and subscription or licences.   Also, the NAS and some services need this to work.

Synology Active Insights...

By Wayne Kenward

If you haven’t already ready my blog “Image Storage Guide”, please read it first.

Blog: Image Storage Guide | COAP Online

This blog is a follow on to the “Image Storage Guide” and covers selecting a Synology NAS, connection, configuration and some ideals on how to work with a Syn...