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PepeTheTimid
14th of April 2005 (Thu), 13:48
http://img191.exs.cx/img191/5263/rc000891up.jpg

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/5449/eighth9rs.jpg

PowerShot S70
Tv 1/2000
Av 4.0
ISO Speed 50
Focal Length 5.8mm
despot
14th of April 2005 (Thu), 15:49
Good effort. I've tried shooting these before - they are soooo fast!!

Andy
RbrtPtikLeoSeny
14th of April 2005 (Thu), 17:28
hahaha! Cute! Those things are wicked fast. I've seen them go before.
skade
20th of April 2005 (Wed), 21:08
Nice shots! My fiance has one... I have a hard time getting good shots coz they are so damn fast lol
bluebomberx
20th of April 2005 (Wed), 23:24
I also didn't fair well the last time I went to a r/c touring race. I couldn't get close enough.
JohnEBongo
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 09:09
Next time, get down and dirty and get some shots from track level..........
Incomplete Pete
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 09:48
Yea, follow John's advice, best way to go is to get level with cars, makes the shots look more more intense!
dorkn
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 10:45
Pepe - Use a prefocus method on a P&S camera. Prefocus on a spot of the track by pressing shutter half way down then looking through your viewfinder locate the rc car you want to shoot. Pan that car all the way back to the spot you prefocused on then push shutter rest of the way. This will also help with shutter lag too. Use TV mode around 500 on shutter speed. This should still give you some wheel motion blurr but keeping a sharp image. Here is a shot I took with my Olympus 3000C zoom 2 years ago before I got a DSLR camera.

http://webpages.charter.net/dorkn1/unstable.jpg
dorkn
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 10:49
Oh also nice shots you took by the way. Keep more coming.I love rc cars I race them on the weekends. Here is one more example taken with my 20D and 70- 200 f2.8 L lens.

http://webpages.charter.net/dorkn1/stadiumweb.jpg
bluebomberx
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 12:34
I shot these with my 10D and Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 (http://home.swbell.net/ryer52/rc/). They were cropped rather heavily. Auto focus couldn't keep up with them. Pre-focusing is about the only way to go. The touring cars are probably a little bit faster than their dirt-bound cousins. Makes me miss my old nitro... it met a mail box at 45mph.
dorkn
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 17:30
Nice bluebomberx!
rgravel
21st of April 2005 (Thu), 19:36
They sure are difficult to shoot, especialy with a P&S.

I shot this one with a G5, prefocused on manual, cropped and tuned in PSE-3