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[sejanus]

one more from that trackday

[Tardinator]

sejanus, you are a god!

What times were people doing?

[Stang]

Sejanus have the trackday photos been sharpened in PS? They're pin sharp for the slowish shutter speed. Beautiful.

[everlast]

I got my replacement camera back from the shop on ANZAC day, not 1 hot pixel. Pretty happy about that.
I always thought the tollerance on hot pixels was only with LCD screens (thats been my experience at work with flat panel LCD's that have had a few, but if you whinge enough they will replace em) the fact that the CCD had a hot pixel straight out of the box on the old camera annoyed me, hence returning it. The guy at the shop agreed.
If only it didnt rain most of the long weekend i might have got out and taken some decent pictures.

Typical first day back at work and its perfect weather outside!!
I'll have some photos soon to share!

By the way, awesome photos sejanus, et al.
:worship:

Originally posted by smee
In regards to the hot pixel, most manufacturers will state that it is within tolerance so will not warranty it.
I bought a Nikon Coolpix 775 (from a MTB friend at Maxell) for under $400 because it had a hot pixel. He stated that most shops returned the couple of these cameras due to the hot pixel error, but would palm them off if they could to unsuspecting buyers.
I got the camera, a 2 times converter lens and the charger/mains supply unit plus a 64 Mb card for less then the RRP of the camera. I thought it was a good buy and was happy to put up with a hot pixel.

Some Rally Photo's of mine.

Not the best site design though

[sejanus]

davee,

I wasn't watching any times really, and I was only there for a part of the morning.

stang,

Panning with the car at shutter speeds of around 1/125 to 1/200 (depending on speed) keeps the car fairly sharp with the background blurred. The images do get sharpened in photoshop, but thats more because I set my camera to shoot with no sharpening than to increase the sharpening of the car itself....if that makes any sense

It's very hard to smoothly pan with a long lens (500mm) at slow shutter speeds like that, getting camera shake in the image is very easy to do. I managed to do the below picture at 1/80th of a second at 500mm length, you can see the blurring looks way better at the slow shutter speed, but it's a real hit and miss affair to get the image sharp at those speeds.

[Stang]

I still need more practice with panning, a few months ago I did a shoot for my pastor after he finished restoring his 1919 Henderson motorbike. I did about 10 shots of flypasts, only 1 or 2 turned out sharp. This was using a 300mm lens at around 60th/90th.

[sejanus]

If you were handholding the camera at 300mm length at those speeds I'd expect that. Get a monopod!

[Stang]

I was using a tripod, it was kind of awkward swivelling around with it though. Ah well, the JMS drift competition's coming up next weekend, that'll give me a chance to work on my panning technique

[FoMoCo]

Here are a heap of pics I have taken.

There are all of Canberra at night, there is also a couple of collages of YBI-12Vs car I did as it was lost in the Canberra fires

http://www.pbase.com/fomoco

[RotaUte]

Blower

here's one I took at Eastern Creek a while ago

Boxer

[RotaUte]

STi

Gotta love suction cups... Check out the speedo!

http://www.pbase.com/image/16006348

[Q]

[Q]

Track days are easy :p, try photographing these little buggers
Same speed as a car, but the size of a headlight






even little cars have shunts :D

[nismostu]

Our Dog 'Nismo'

[Frankster]

Gorgeous pics people. Extremely impressed...

Heres some of my own, i hope you enjoy them...

private shoot with a 350z



anzac day trackday


private skyline photoshoot