Cyclocross (night time race)

Coming from the 1D Mark I and Mark II camera, I bought the Mark III to excel at night time cycling photography. The 1D Classic has a lot of noise over ISO 640, and the Mark II's ISO noise threshold I was comfortable with was ISO 800. Last night was the first outing I had with the mark III at night. I must say, it performed rather well. When it got pitch-black out, obviously I had trouble focusing in AI-Servo mode (as you all may or may not know the Speedlight IR assist beam does not work in AI-Servo AF, only one-shot AF). I did try to focus on moving subjects with one-shot AF. As soon as the IR-assist beam got a lock, I fired. The results were actually o.k. (as long as they weren't moving too fast). If they were, the split second it took me to trip the shutter after I heards the AF confirmation beep, the subject moved out of focus. Anyways, here are some photos of some of the keepers I got in the dark (on a positive note, my keeper rate was still 80% AT NIGHT in AI-Servo with the Mark III).

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Here's one at 165mm @ 1/30, f/2.8 with IS turned on:

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Don't tell me that's "Chamois cream".

Biffbradford wrote in post #8793670
Don't tell me that's "Chamois cream".

Nope, it's Whipped Cream. You needed to pass under that tent to use the "shortcut." The shortcut has a fee. It's different every week, but this week the fee to pay was to have whipped cream sprayed down your shorts plus chug beer while they do it.

Passing through the "shortcut" subtracted 40 seconds from your time. If you can stand a crotch full of whipped cream and chugging beer, the 40sec x 4 laps was well worth it, LOL.

Biffbradford wrote in post #8793752

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I gotta pass that along.

Check out this video of this race someone posted: http://www.vimeo.com/6​985677