Thanks for the plug Brian,
I have just got around to posting some of the images from Indy
http://home.iprimus.com.au/boldbolty/index.htm
The two images Brian is talking about are;
The first is taken with a Sigma 400mm f5.6 at 1/125 sec at f11 on Fuji
Superia 400 print film
http://home.iprimus.com.au/boldbolty/pages/Indy
%20Murphy.htm
And the second shot shows where I was taking the photos from
http://home.iprimus.com.au/boldbolty/pages/indy010.htm
As you can see, there is a fence and wall to the right (so it is very hard
to pan with the car because they come out so quickly from behind this blind
corner) and then to the left you have the palm trees (second most difficult
part is to take the shot before they disappear behind the palm foliage).
Cheers Adam
> Hi folks,
>
> I now have enhanced admiration for Bolty and that Indy-car shot he
obtained
> with a 400mm lens.
>
> A couple of days ago I called in at *my* camera shop and found they had a
> couple of nice 400's in. I just happened to have a camera body in my
> satchel, so I spent some time playing with one of them. (I had trialled a
> Tokina 400/6.3 about 15 years ago and agonised over purchase - and
didn't -
> but the one slide I have from a semi-hand-held shot is remarkably sharp,
so I
> wanted to revisit this lens). I still did not buy as I'm still unsure if I
would give
> a 400 any real use. HOWEVER, I tried envisaging panning this lens.
>
> Bolty's photo is so sharp that even the background shows only the merest
> trace of panning movement, but it is there if you look. And the shot looks
> almost as though it could have been taken with a 50mm, the DOF is so
> good. So there he was, high up with his lens poking through between heads,
> and he has to make a tiny panning movement without inducing any
> camera/lens shake. Almost as though blinking an eye might create enough
> pan movement. A real achievement.
>
> Brian
>
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