On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:56:52PM +0000, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 17/11/12, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >So I'm in Austin this week, visiting family (and finishing off > >with a trip to the Circiuit of the Americas for the US Grand Prix). > > Envious!
Hah! You've got Silverstone within driving distance, and several other circuits (including possibly the best track in use today, Spa, as close as the four hours by air it takes me to get to Austin). Mind you, COTA is the best of the modern tracks by a long way, IMO. And we had perfect weather, and a great race with actual racing on track, and only a couple of miner mechanical incidents. It was even possible to get reasonable shots from our grandstand (albeit limited to just a single viewpoint, of course), and the track policy limiting lenses to at most 10" in length (quite generous, from what I've seen) meant that the 60-250 was no problem (and 150mm-200mm was what was needed for a single-car shot with a sightline above the fencing). Pictures will follow at some point, but at the moment I'm moving to a new computer (so I can run LR4), and taking this as an opportunity to review the way I organise my images. Given my slight tendency to procrastinate I have no idea when I'll be set up to process the shots. P.S. You can be envious should I manage to persuade one of our larger customers, Singapore Air, that they want to treat me to a trip to the Singapore GP. It's not really likely, but it's just remotely possible. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
