Good capture, Paul. You might want to fix the error in the caption (you have "... Summernatinals")
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:58:52PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Another pan from the 1982 NHRA Summernationals at Englishtown, New Jersey. If > I recall correctly I shot these at a pretty stout shutter speed, maybe > 1/500th or even 1/1000th and panned about as fast as I could while fighting > to keep the car in frame. I prefocused on the rubber tracks on the asphalt, > knowing the drivers would try to stay right in "the groove."The tire > lettering seems to support the fast shutter speed. The car is past 100 feet > here, a little further along than the previous one I showed and is traveling > at well over 100 mph. The tires show more growth than those of the previous > shot. The injector doors are wide open. Top speed at the 1/4 mile in 1982 > would have been around 260 mph if the driver made it all the way without > mishap. (Today, top fuel cars reach 295 mph at the 1/8th mile and 325 mph at > 1000 feet.) > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17975969&size=lg -- 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.
