Chris Barker wrote:
> That looked like fun! Well, for a few laps anyway: I
> cannot see the enjoyment of repeated entries to identical
> bends :-)
I love racing of almost every type, but I must admit that I
don't quite "get" sprint car racing. The short heat races to
thin the herd of racers down to the final ones is tedious. The
races are so short (sprints) that it's difficult to develop a
"story line". I've lived here for over seven years and this is
the first sprint car race I've gone to. Probably will be my
last, unless I get a press pass access to the inside rail.
As to the repeated entries to identical bends aspect, well, I'm
not so gung ho either way. I like oval racing as well as road
course as well as off-road racing. What is interesting about
dirt oval racing is that the track is constantly changing. They
start out hugging the inside, but by the time you get to the
final races of the evening, they are slicing and dicing, going
high, riding low, whipping high to low, low to high... It gets
pretty wild out there. There's a few rim-riders that spend their
entire time in the turns inches from the fence. These guys are
doing something like 150mph+ going into the turns and they never
lift. Full-throttle the entire way. Yeah, one guy got killed
this week when something broke and he spiked the wall. A tiny
reminder that what Hemmingway said is pretty true about there
being only two true sports--Bull Fighting and Auto Racing.
> The light looked low, you got the exposure about right and the
> focus worked.
Exposure was "auto". There were a bunch of images where the
exposure was way off, but that was caused by the dark head in
front of my during panning shots. As to the focus, well, I
haven't been able to get autofocus to work quite right in my
200/4 and the 100/2.8. It's just too slow to be effective, but
at least it doesn't hunt. As to my in-focus "hit-rate",
well???? I took 800 pictures and only 179 marginal ones hit the
website. :0 I've done worse, but am not remembering it.
Shutter speeds were too low and everything was handheld, no
flash.
> The focus (with my 50-200) kept hunting to the empty
> sky and only belatedly managing the aircraft.
This is a circumstance where AF is a drawback. The trick here is
to just give yourself enough DoF to cover the variances between
200m and infinity. Stick it in manual and have fun.
AG
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