> > OK, now we're getting to the part where my analysis has to be spot on. > Shooting motorsports, I'm not going to have time to review in camera.
Not something you want to do, in any case, with large heavy objects whizzing by at 200mph. Not that I haven't seen people doing that; sitting on the Jersey barrier, back to traffic, paying no attention. [Have you heard the term for that activity? It's known as 'chimping'; folks staring at their camera dispay anf going "Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!"] > It sounds like I'm really going to need to have a laptop along for > dumps from the CF (or whatever) cards. > day on film. See below > I can easily do 250+ shots a day on film. [ . . . ] I'll probably > shoot more on digital since the incremental cost is so low . I've shot more than 250 frames during a single on-track session. For the cost of a couple of GB of CF memory you can get this: http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=details&sid=10463894873648587&sku=ICDSDFT That's a 30GB hard drive, 3.5" LCD review screen, built in CF reader. No assistant needed, and a lot easier to carry around the circuit. With that, and a couple of 512Mb CF cards, you'd be able to shoot all you want in raw mode; just change the 'film' every 35 frames, and dump one to the hard drive while you're shooting the next. The only reasons I haven't got one of these myself is that I usually have my laptop with me in the media room for posting the images as soon as I can, and that as I shoot in daylight almost all the time I expect the white balance presets to be good enough. And one other thing - with the laptop I can make sure I've burned the images to CD before I delete them from the CF card - I'm paranoid, but I never like having a single point of failure for something as evanescent as digital images.
