Karting Action

[BBJ]

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

[Matt. K]

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!

[BBJ]

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

[redline]

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?

[BBJ]

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.

[redline]

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

[Matt. K]

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.

[robboh]

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??

[sirhc55]

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

[BBJ]

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?

[BBJ]

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

[robboh]

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?

[BBJ]

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.

[ozimax]

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

[BBJ]

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

[KerryPierce]

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