First new tram at Princes Street stop (2010)

In April 2010 the irst of the new trams arrived in Edinburgh. It was delivered on the transit vehicles to the middle of Princes Street, slid carfully down onto the rails section by section, and assembled in place here as an unpowered demonstration publicity tram. In December 2013 the first of the new trams arrived here under its own power in a first experimental test run of the last bit of track between Haymarket and York Place. The tram moved at a brisk walking pace accompanied by engineers. Both these occasions took place in the middle of the night, a much wetter one in 2013.

With plenty of time to photograph a stationary tram in 2010 I took this shot on a tripod at 1/4 sec, at f/8 and ISO 1600, using 13mm on a Sigma 10-20mm lens. Having to keep moving fast to keep up with the tram in 2013 I took that shot at f/2.8 on a monopod at 1/80th sec, with a heavily gusting wind and a rain-spattered Sony 16-50mm lens at 16mm. Detail resolution between the two shots looks roughly comparable, although of course there's much better depth of focus in the earlier f/8 shot. Hard to separate the influences of the environment from later technology, but there does seem to be better dynamic and contrast in the later photograph. I processed both rather simply from standard out-of-camera jpegs with the same editor in order to keep that side of the playing field even.

The link to the 2013 shot is below.

www.flickr.com/photos/chris_malcolm/11304815195/

Original: DSC07628X

Taken on: April 26, 2010

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Camera: Sony DSLR-A550, f/8.0, 1/4 sec, 13mm (=19mm), ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSLR-A550
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.25 sec (1/4)
Focal Length:	13mm (35mm equivalent: 19mm)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	-0.3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	DSLR-A550 v1.00
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