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More Karting action from today's outing, weather wasn't the best today and dull most of the time and bloody cold but well i enjoyed the day.
All my shots today taken with the 80-400 VR and resized down for web so quality not 100%.
These kids are speed demons.





Jack Cole well known local fellow who i used to get all my gear off when i used to race Dirt Karts, celabrated his 80th birthday today and still has it all together as he came 1st in his section every race and has been doing karting a for a long time.


Ok all out of camera shot no pping
Cheers
John

That kid on cart number 9....he looks a bit suss. Nice pics for straight out of the camera but I can see with a bit of PP you could make those colours pop off the paper! And that 200-400VR! What a sweet little hunk of glass that is!

Hi Matt, i took 250+ pics like this today and thats the 80-400 not the 200-400. i spose i could have done some but have just finished processing and uploading to site.
Thanks
John

some great shots there John. it takes a while to adjust the different speeds of motorsport for doing shots. i reckon fastest would be in order would be motorbikes, karts, cars, drifting. however drifting is much more unprediable and needs a bit of space me reckon so it make up for it i guess.

i was thinking of picking up a either a 80-400, 300 f4 or a 500 f4
how would you rate the focusing speed and acuratency?

Thai, i am not sure about the 300 for 500 but the 80-400 is slow in a sence, as i have said before this is a great lens once you get to know it but well i seem to manage i think for drifting as you need to have some distance i think for the bucks this is a good buy. With my shots you have seen a lot of these are fast moving and well the 80-400 was better to use today than my sigma 70-200 f2.8 as i couldn't get too close so this lens was #1 for the day. They tend to hunt now and then and well just have to wait till it catches up but no major dramas.

yeah, as long as it af is good enough as the 80-200 i might go out and get it, i didn't want something that hunted like a cheap t/c i have. maybe a test drive some day at a store

BBJ
I shot about the same number at Oran Park on friday and I am sitting here wondering what the hell I am going to do with them. I meant the 80-400...same as I was using at the races. I feel I might have got more sharpness with the VR switched off. I will definitly need to spend more time with this and experiment with the VR.

More nice shots John. You are really getting yourself dialed in with the D70. Do you usually use any exposure comp, or just let the spot meter do its thing??

John - you should take up singing as you already make your camera sing

Matt, most times i dont even turn VR on but it was today even thougg my shutter speeds was around 320 to 400 it was bloody windy and well it was on. I sometimes wonder if i take too many but i like to get lots incase they dont turn out but more often i end up with them all good and also like different parts of the track.

What camera settings did you use?

Robboh i am always adjusting my exposure comp, when i shoot in SP mode well most times i like to check and well as we have had a dull day here and doesn't help at times when you have big white signs around the track as well.

Chris, mate im a bathroom singer.LOL

BBJ wrote:Robboh i am always adjusting my exposure comp, when i shoot in SP mode well most times i like to check and well as we have had a dull day here and doesn't help at times when you have big white signs around the track as well.

Yeah, big white signs = pain in the ass!
What do you normally use as your spot metering reference? The grass? The track + a little -ve compensation?

Robboh i check my pics after i take them looking at the histogram every few shots or so and adjust accordingly. I sometimes shoot in manual as well and meter as i go but 99% i am in shutter mode and keep an eye on it and yeh thats it. As i shoot RAW i get it close as i can and when i process i will adjust any that are not right in Nikon capture then batch process them all in 1 hit.

John, these are clear sharp shots, seems like a cracker of a lens in my eyes, great colour on my el cheapo monitor, you're turning out some great action shots here in difficult (Mt Gambier) lighting conditions!

Max

Thanks Max but these have no pp done to them and dropped in quality afair bit but i am happy with them, and the weather yeh well storm warnings over here tonite, was a cold day and yeh it is blwoing a gale now but what is even better work hasn,t rang so i get to sleep in a bit.
Well i have some orders i have to get printed tomorrow so that will keep me out of trouble.LOL

Cool shots, John. The first one is the best of the lot, IMO.