John, I like them very much.
The "Pitstop" (or, the "Quickest McDonald guys") just lacks a bit in...guess what? Car sharpness, of course! Not sure it's all due to air disturbance. Framing and the air blur over the helmets work fine. The panning is just perfect. Dario Bonazza ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:31 AM Subject: PAW - a couple of shots from Portland > > Here are a couple of shots from last weekend up at Portland > International Raceway. > > One thing I've discovered with the *ist-D; the extra crop > factor multiplies all your mistakes, as well as everything > else. I had a group of shots with the A* 300/2.8 + 1.7AF, > and some were awful, while others worked just fine. > > These, however, are shot with the 250-600 and the 80-200/2.8 > respectively. The first (pitstop) one is cropped quite a bit; > the second is pretty much only cropped to get the 4:3 ratio I > wanted for a desktop background image. > > <http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/PortlandStop.jpg> > <http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/PortlandBlur.jpg> > > Comments and/or questions welcome. >
