Hi Rich, On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:48:57 -0400, Richard Klein wrote:
> I had to take most of my pictures through the diamond-mesh fence. My lense > won't quite fit through the holes in the mesh, so are there any ways to > minimize the appearance of the fence? Boy, howdy! I hope someone has a good solution for this one. After the crew and spectator fatalities of the 1999 and 2000 seasons, all of the fences at the venues have gotten much higher and stronger. It's made things really tough of those of us without credentials. > My camera's an SF-10 with a Pentax SMC F 35-70mm F3.5-4.5 lense. Generally, I just look for places where I can shoot around the fence. I also use a 400mm lens to shoot over the fences where that's possible. The 400 makes it harder to get sharp shots, though, just due to its smaller angle of view. The monopod helps, but a shorter lens would help more. :-) > [...] Seattle Film Works [...] not C-41 process film [...] If it's fairly recent SFW film, then it may just be C-41 process. I seem to remember having heard that they ran out of the movie film stock some time ago and had been using C-41 stock since. > In the future I'll want to use faster films to photograph fast-moving > motorcycles, right? When photographing cars, I generally want the shutter speed to be around 1/125 to 1/500 second, depending on how fast the cars are going at the spot I'm taking their photo. Faster cars want faster shutter speeds ... I want the wheels to just be a bit blurred to give the sensation of speed, but still use the fastest shutter speed I can, to reduce blurriness due to "the shakes". > Is the Fuji Superia + I saw in the supermarket last > night the same Superia I see mentioned here so often? I'd think so, but I couldn't really tell you. I did get Superia XTRA ASA400 at the grocery this weekend. > I found that I couldn't always zoom in on individual motorcycles as much as > I wanted, so in the future I'd want to use a larger (in mm) lense, right? Yep, or get closer to the track. Unfortunately, even at 200mm you might need credentials to get close enough. That's why the 400 is my main lens at races. > How do I decide what F-range to look for? I guess that really depends on a lot of things. Personally, I'd just use the "Sunny 16" rule as an approximation, then try to guesstimate what sorts of weather (light) I'll have to be shooting in. Typically I use an SMC 400/5.6 and an SMC-A 200/4 for the main on-track shots. The only trouble I've had is that in really bright sunlight, sometimes I have trouble keeping the shutter speed down to 1/250 when using ASA400 film. TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
