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D30 captures Porsche at warp speed

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Yes , please Chris !
I like your shots .
Amazing action shots . It confirms what I'm thinking about the D30 .
I've shot the Red Arrows at a meeting last year and , even at 400miles/hour ,
my D30 was able to (pre) focus and freeze the movement .

Wheelie
Chris Dodkin said:
Great days action at Brands Hatch (UK) today.

I'll post more later, but for now here's a couple of Porsches from
the GT racing series



http://www.d30-images.com/porsche-gt

D30, Canon 70-200 F2.8L, 125 sec, F22, ISO400 RAW
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Single focus point pre-selected (speeds up AF)

AI AF on

ISO 400 (for max DOF)

Motor drive on

2.8L lens for fast AF and allowed use of MKII Convertor on many shots

Panning with the action (on this shot)

Tracking the actions before pressing shutter (on gallery shots)

The head-on and rear-on shots were cars doing max speed down the starting straight at Brands Hatch, and the AF worked like a dream. And that's with the MKII extender fitted!

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Exactly, the larger the F- number, that means the lens is opening less wide (aperture is smaller). This results in a greater DoF (the range in which things are in focus.

--Bryan Lin
cjohns16 said:
By using F22 does that allow you a larger room for focusing error
that allows the car to remain in the sharp DoF?
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Shooting these types of pictures have never been a problem for me, even shooting wide open I rarley have a problem keeping cars or bikes in focus. The D30 AF is plenty good for shooting large moving objects. The biggest problem when using AI focus is if you dont keep the focus point on the object you will get a focus lock on the background and the object will be out of focus. This has not happend very many times though.

Here is mine. Its a Drag Racing shot in which Im sitting towards the end of the 1/4 mile. The bike is going near 180MPH.

http://www.houstonstangers.com/hosted/bike.jpg--Barry Anders
 
Barry A said:
Shooting these types of pictures have never been a problem for me,
even shooting wide open I rarley have a problem keeping cars or
bikes in focus. The D30 AF is plenty good for shooting large
moving objects. The biggest problem when using AI focus is if you
dont keep the focus point on the object you will get a focus lock
on the background and the object will be out of focus. This has
not happend very many times though.
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Yep, I used to find that too (though I was using a film camera - EOS 5 - at the time). In the end I gave up using AF and focused manually on the racing line instead for pan shots. Mind you, I suspect the real problem was that my panning technique was not as good as yours - it takes a LOT of practice to get it right! :-)

This manual focus technique worked for me most of the time, the only problem was when I wanted to change focus quickly to capture e.g. a crash further down the track! Oh well, can't win 'em all!

Regards,
Caroline
 
Taken at the Easter Races at Zandvoort, The Netherlands

All D30 + 100-400L, ISO 100 mostly

Beamer



Renault Clio



Formula Ford



VEGE series



Toyota Yaris cup ("Vitz")

 
Those photos bring back some memories, it is over 30 years since I was last at Brands (used to live in Maidstone).

I guess as a certified rev-head who's photography is about 50% motor sport, I better have my 10c worth.

Taken at the recent SBK World Championship round 2 at Phillip Island, Australia.



Troy Bayliss wins both races
More at http://www.pbase.com/johngwill/motor_sport--John W
 
Chris Dodkin said:
come on, it's almost as daft :)
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But at least Renault produced the Clio Williams which had some genuine pretensions to being a sporty car - not sure if you could ever say the same about the Yaris!!! ;-) (Apologies if I've offended any Yaris owners out there :-)

Mind you I'll admit racing Yaris (Yarises??) and Clios is not as daft as the tin snails - 2CVs! You just reminded me of them - they are probably the funniest things I have ever seen going round a track :-) You are never quite sure if they are going to fall over when they go round the corners and seem to be on three - or two! - wheels more often than four :-)

Regards,
Caroline
 
Can you explain the procedure in keeping the bike from motion blurring yet letting the background blur slightly. That is an amazing effect and I've always wanted to do that.
Barry A said:
Shooting these types of pictures have never been a problem for me,
even shooting wide open I rarley have a problem keeping cars or
bikes in focus. The D30 AF is plenty good for shooting large
moving objects. The biggest problem when using AI focus is if you
dont keep the focus point on the object you will get a focus lock
on the background and the object will be out of focus. This has
not happend very many times though.

Here is mine. Its a Drag Racing shot in which Im sitting towards
the end of the 1/4 mile. The bike is going near 180MPH.



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Barry Anders
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