NEX-7 does Austin Formula 1

teaberry wrote:

I decided to take my NEX-7 and NEX-6 to 2012 Formula 1 in Austin, TX @ COTA. I spent 3 days shooting all the pics in RAW and probably took about 5000 pics with both cameras. I did find that NEX-6 was a faster camera for AF noticeably and expected when used with SEL18200. I didn't do SEL18200 firmware update for PDAF until 2nd day, but I didn't really notice any diff in AF speed. A lot of AF speed seems to be more related to your settings such as exposure, f-stop, and ISO. Another thing to note is the faster the card, the better to setup for the next shot while buffer is unloading. I used Sandisk Extreme 45MB/s 64GB SDXC, Lexar Pro x133 32GB SDHC, Sony Pro DUO 8GB HX, then out of desperation a Samsung class 6 microSD w/ adapter.

I'm still sorting through pics, but I was impressed with some of NEX-7 pics. Granted this wasn't the F1 cars which were dramatically faster than Ferrari's and Porsche GT3s. I'll try to dig up more pics later, but I thought this is a nice un-cropped sample with minimal pocessing (Lens correction in LR4).