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From the 12 Hours of Sebring:

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Formula 2 Francorchamps Belgium

Thanks for looking,
Cheers,
Rene.

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F2 Francorchamps

Bill Swallow on a 456 Ducati at the Wirral Hundred MC event on the Anglesey Circuit.

A couple from The Historic Agbo Stages.

Not particularly slow - but I was quite happy overall as it was my first proper outing with my new (to me) 300 f2.8 L IS

my first try at the whip pan...needed my ND filters to avoid f22...so now I know for Petit LeMans...

Whip It 911

Panning and sunrise go well together...

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Few pans from the opening round of the British Rallycross Championship, as held at Silverstone:

shooting slow pans...experimenting with the new AF Tracking on the a9, for this kind of thing I think I still like my old way of doing it...I think I was getting distracted by the little green box jumping around...

TRhoads wrote in post #18839137
shooting slow pans...experimenting with the new AF Tracking on the a9, for this kind of thing I think I still like my old way of doing it...I think I was getting distracted by the little green box jumping around...

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Kudos for the 1/20th, that's excellent and a really good, sharp picture that conveys great speed. But why would you be using AF tracking? Surely just a small aperture, say f/11, and pre-focusing where you know the car will be would do the job.

Pippan wrote in post #18839512
Kudos for the 1/20th, that's excellent and a really good, sharp picture that conveys great speed. But why would you be using AF tracking? Surely just a small aperture, say f/11, and pre-focusing where you know the car will be would do the job.

Thanks. Conveying speed is what its all about.

To answer your question...the a9 just got a big firmware update...and one of the pieces of it is the new AF Tracking system...and I wanted to try it out, to learn it...learn it when it doesn't matter so that if and when I am shooting this kind of thing and it does matter, I know how or when to use it...and I learned for race cars, it is not better than my old way of doing it...f/11 would have yielded 1/80 of a second, and while that shows good speed...I like the challenge of shooting at 1/20 for a few frames...and I don't use MF for a few reasons, my eyes are terrible, and I like to be able to have the option of keeping AF, just in case I need to be ready to capture something in a different location, maybe the car spins or there is a crash...having options...

TRhoads wrote in post #18839552
Thanks. Conveying speed is what its all about.

To answer your question...the a9 just got a big firmware update...and one of the pieces of it is the new AF Tracking system...and I wanted to try it out, to learn it...learn it when it doesn't matter so that if and when I am shooting this kind of thing and it does matter, I know how or when to use it...and I learned for race cars, it is not better than my old way of doing it...f/11 would have yielded 1/80 of a second, and while that shows good speed...I like the challenge of shooting at 1/20 for a few frames...and I don't use MF for a few reasons, my eyes are terrible, and I like to be able to have the option of keeping AF, just in case I need to be ready to capture something in a different location, maybe the car spins or there is a crash...having options...

I see. I hadn't looked at your aperture. F/22 even easier to prefocus, but I understand your reasons for trying new AF. I've been seeing some sensational photos from a9s. Tracking must already have been good on it. Some of Sha Lu's bird photos, for example, are gobsmacking. Looking forward to more of yours.

Nicely done!

A CPL or an ND filter can really help with exposure on slow pans on a sunny day.

Jethr0 wrote in post #18839987
Nicely done!

A CPL or an ND filter can really help with exposure on slow pans on a sunny day.

yep, I own both...but at the moment they are packed somewhere away in my house...been doing a major reno this year and my stuff is all over the place...

Motoamerica Road Atlanta 2019