I'm in Indianapolis (USA) for the United States Grand Prix this weekend.
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First, of all the photogs with official credentials I've seen, all but one were shooting with Canon equipment.
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Among the great unwashed, without credentials (and I'm in this category), there are a lot of Nikon shooters, and a surprising (to me) number of people using old manual focus, manual wind cameras.
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The most interesting thing to me is that, among Canon shooters, I think there were far more people shooting digital than film. I think more than half of the EOS cameras around me everywhere I shot were 10Ds! Saw several 1Ds (not sure if they were 1Ds or just 1D), and some 3s and 1n's. Most of the rest were consumer models: Rebels, an old 10s, a couple of Elans, etc.
Unfortunately I wasn't there, but I saw the race on Speed (being a European in the US is frustrating in this regard because nobody cares about F1 :-(). Very interesting race, I must say, although it ended up with a pretty common result with Schumacher getting first and Raikkonen second (Frentzen third, good for him). If you read the Forumla 1 magazines you will find that at least one of them, surprisingly, give facts on how a picture was taken (e.g. shutter speed and aperature) and I have sometimes gotten the impression that not all of this equipment is "new stuff". Still, I would expect the digital photographers there to use 1Ds and certainly not 10Ds! Maybe there's more to the 10D than have met my eye... If you got any good shots, please put them on the web!
-- - Marius
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