Ah, you're talking about the real america cup races! Did russell coutts
lose his nz citizenship yet or did they just exile him? ;)
Haven't made it to one yet, but i don't think there's much in the way of
chase boats, choppers and media coverage with the races here, and part of
the idea is that the old america cup boats can not only be raced, but that
people can actually watch them, so they are pretty close to shore... ;)
My assumption too is that the five will race together, and that it hopefully
will be possible to get all of them in a shot at the first turn.... Their
site is http://www.challenge-series.com/ and includes a "marketplace" link
with 15 past racers for sale, so if you need a new OM shooting platform, for
a mere us$150k, you could pick up Il Moro di Venezia #2 from the 1990
series... forget about chase boats!
Didn't make it to the race this morning (gf had other ideas) but have a kit
ready for tomorrow: 4T, 500/8, 50-250/5, 135/2.8, vivitar 2x, Glottos IY442
tripod, 400 Fujipress, 400 ProviaF, and i found i had a 55mm polarizer
(amazing what you find if you look!)... figure on setting up on the
waterfront in sausalito for the first turn, so we'll see how it goes...
RickM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mitchell" <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Shooting America Cup Yachts Racing In San Fran
> > Damn it Dan, you take all the fun out of it, maybe i should go shoot
> > the nascar race instead! ;-)
>
> Nah, boat racing is cool, even if just for the atmosphere of it all. We
> knew nothing about the race when we went out (and not a whole lot more
when
> we came back) but it's still about the feel of it as much as the
spectacle.
>
> > Ok, so i have a 500/8, a 2x, and a tripod, if i can see anything
> > through the viewfinder at that point... how on earth did you take
> > photos from a boat with a 500/8 2x combination? I have enough
> > trouble getting decent shots from the ferry using a 35-105/3.5!
>
> Actually, now I re-check the prints, I may have been overly pessimistic
> before -- there's some decent frame-filling ones of the yachts in there,
so
> it _is_ possible to get decent results. I'll get them scanned in in a bit
> and upload them so you can see.
>
> Hand-holding with 500 + 2x, I leaed on the windowframe of the boat we
were
> on as it went back to shore, set the speed to 1/1000th and prayed. At that
> point, it's cropping/focus that's the problem as much as it is hand
> stability -- neither the boat I was on nor the one I was shooting was
> exactly static..
>
> > Any idea of the closest land point then? Fort baker looks like it
> > might almost be the closest point from their map, though not much
> > closer than the turn in sausalito...
>
> Well, here in Auckland, you wouldn't see anything from land, it was way
off
> in the Haruaki gulf. I don't know much about the geography of SF -- a
quick
> search comes up with a lot of different yachting events in SF, all of
which
> have 'Cup' or 'America's' in the title.. which one am I looking for?
>
> Given the choice, I'd go for somewhere next to a turn rather than just
the
> absolute closest point, because the turns are where the most action is --
> they'll be tacking back and forth between the points, but if you want to
get
> both the boats in shot at once, the turn's definitely the place to be.
> Another good location would be around the starting line; assuming they
have
> the same rules as they did here, that's where they spend a lot of time
> jockeying for position before the start, so again you have a decent amount
> of time to get shots.
>
> -- dan
>
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