Comes of growing up with thumb-advance frame rate and graduating to 2 fps. I think the T90 might have done all of 3 fps (I checked - 4.5 in H; which means a roll in 8 sec. - somehow I don't think I used that much). But I set custom speeds on the 1D3 to 5 and 2 instead of the default 10 and 3. I discovered I had it at the default (dunno when I set that) today. Thought it was too fast when I was down at Jump 15 (on the ladder) and shifted to Continuous L then. I can single shot just fine at a 2-3 fps rate and get a burst as needed. But I caught both Katherine and Jennifer (How is she? Wasn't it her that fell in the relay? And how about Rob?) at the same point on 14 with the 5D. So I'm feeling pretty good.
I find timing an issue at the slower rates but at 8fps and up if you start shooting before and through the jump you will get a great shot most times. That's what bob does, even on portraits, and he gets some great shots. The problem is buffer size. He shoots JPEG and can do it. In RAW if you try to shoot each rider you fill the buffer fast if you go full auto. I do like to follow the wrecks all the way through at full auto but then I sometimes miss the rest of the riders. There is also the guessing at who to shoot. Ideally you have the winner. The big money went to the one guy in last place who did not run off course in the first race.
I don't know for sure how Katherine is but I saw her walking and talking. I saw Rob yesterday, he says he has zero recollection of 10 minutes after launch. He remembers approaching the jump and he remembers the ambulance ride, nothing in between. He will be okay, he hit his hardest part
