[ratpack] Re: Enduro
- From: "Larry Knight" <Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:53:09 -0700
Yup that’s the one
Thanks
Lar
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of PAUL W WATSON
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:49 PM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Enduro
No, I think the Ferrari driver just did not have any balls. it really
shouldn't have been that hard to use the 385 hp to stay ahead of a bloody Honda
on a 3/4 mile straight.
Just a total coincidence about the ladies.
Is this the blue yellow Miata you were asking about. The Gulf colored Miata
was there also.
I noticed the line dangling below the Ferrari also. Could be the cable to the
emergency brake.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Knight <mailto:Larry.Knight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Enduro
I know you have all had this thought about the slow Ferrari, but I
guess I will just say it. I know why it was slower than a Honda Civic. Honda
Civic engine rebuild $2500. Ferrari Testarosa engine rebuild $30,000 (guess).
That might help explain it???
Lar
From: ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ratpack-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:41 PM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] Re: Enduro
Looking at some of my pixes, it apears something is hanging underneath
the Ferrarri...looks to be about the size and location of a brake line. He may
have been forced out of the race because of a mechanical of some sort.
----- Original Message -----
From: humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: "ratpack" <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:12:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [ratpack] Enduro
Fellow 'packers:
What a day it was! Beautiful weather! An overcast to lower the
contrast would have been nice, though. I did mangage to catch wheel lift on a
most unlikely (at least, I thought) car. The little black one, with a star on
its side.
Some miscellaneous ramblings re: exposure, shutter speed, camera
support and sharpness.
My hand-held stuff at 1/200 and 1/250 was sharper than my monopod stuff
at like shutter speeds. Hmmmmm..... Learning curve? Probably. My little $7
Chicom bal head has been summarily demoted to holding my flash units on the
light stand. I may take another look at the $maller Manfrotto 'head.
We can talk about glass, focus, and other factors all we want, but,
even with the sharpest glass, suficient shutter speed , exact focus, proper
stance and follow through... BUT, and this is a biggie, we cannot control what
the car is doing! Not in a million years, ever, as much as we might wish it
were otherwise. I did manage to slightly blur a car at 1/1000 sec yesterday. I
know: ol' fuzzy-focus is at it again!
I dislike the cars looking as if they were butterflies pinned to a
board... tack sharp from stem to stern, static. Unless they are sitting still,
which they seldom do during a race. The one exception was the Ferrarri that got
frightened off the track by all those rowdy, noisy, cute little Miatas
yesterday.
Tack sharp, with the decals on the rocker panels "as sharp as I would
like", to quote a 'packer who shall remain nameless, is largely a matter of
luck!
Sports mode gave mostly very sharp pixes, and the autofocus worked
marvelously, as it should, but the cars were experiencing engine vibration,
suspension jiggle, driver input, road bumpiness (YES, even at
Miller!)...dancing around, Hence, my slightly fuzzy, but not unacceptable,
sharpness at 1/1000. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!)
Depending upon the speed of the cars, even when they were really
racing, 1/500, and 1/600 gave just a smidge of wheel movement. 1/400 was
close, and 1/320 - 1/250 were good, providing some unsharpness in the
background, too.
I had a really hard time getting wheel movement on the Ferrarri, even
at 1/160 sec. He shoulda been driving a UTA bus!
Anyhoo, the short version is, I seem to have found out that any shutter
speed from 1/80 sec.can provide the desired wheel motion and background
separation, given proper attention to detail, but the pixes get sharper the
higher I go, and 1/200 is mostly good. For air shows, 1/250 will provide some
motion in propellers. You remember, the fan thingies on the pointy ends of ze
planes?
But! when the wibbles cancel the wobbles, or we don't sneeze or jab
the shutter release, or caffeine hasn't taken its toll, or the moon is in the
seventh house, or something, sometimes our pixes will be very sharp, but if
they ain't , sometimes we are not totally to blame, ( NOT my fault, man!) but
most our photos will be acceptably sharp, and others excellent.
Now get out there and take some pixes!
C.
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