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Still life from tonight.

Brabham BT62 testing at Brands Hatch today.

A few from this morning at Knole Park

Had a chance to take a few shots in a studio, grabbed a couple of racers and clicked away..

Another, using barn doors and a grid.

Picked up some cheap strobes, boxes and grids, had a quick go with my son modelling.. work in progress.

Images in weekly regional paper for the third time in a row, full page spread. Also half a dozen shots in latest speedscene magazine. Well chuffed.

Another rugby shot..

Whilst I haven’t looked closely at the Sony’s rumours of a poor menu system put me off. Bumped into a guy at Brands the other day with an A9 and 150-600 glass. 20fps. If ever there was too much spec for the purpose there it was lol If I machine gunned at 39fps, it would take me months to process the images. He did say he turns it down 10fps is more than enough. I upgrade next year if the 90D is available I’ll give you first shout. Be nice if it went to a good home rather than MPB, not that they are more than fair, reasonable and convenient

Thanks Amanda, didn’t realise dual processing made a huge difference. The buffer didn’t seem that much bigger, though in practice I guess every little helps. It is small on 80/90D especially for the rugby when one of the players decides to run the length of the field and score, you can guess when the bloody buffer is full!! Lol. Just have to time it a bit better. I was toying with getting a 300mb card but they a silly money and would they really make a huge difference, your view on that would be appreciated. I’m currently working with a couple of pro’s to improve my skills one is a mirrorless convert. The key thing for him is seeing the actual results in real time without taking his eye from the viewfinder, enabling him to make minute adjustments quickly. I’m hopefully retiring in June next year, might treat myself to a top end camera, though I’ll see how Canon do with their mirrorless cameras before making the jump. Current favourite is staying with DSLR and going 1dx3. Though if canon bring out an equivalent mirrorless version that might sway me.

Will try and get along, if I remember this time!

Lol yeh, rumbled. Don’t normally get involved in threads like that, won’t bother in future. Just a load of anal retentives being err.. anally retentive, mostly birders. I post mostly in the motorsports and rugby threads. The 7D2 would interest me but on paper spec didn’t look that brilliant, it’s been around a while, old digic 6 processing, no Wi-fi or touch screen and low resolution mostly. My views may be different had I an opportunity to try one but I haven’t and I’m not going to order one just for the sake of it. I’m not a 90D fanboi, for the money it works for me, shortfalls and all. I guess the only way to check for improvements over and above is to try for yourself. If ever you’re down Kent way, you’re more than welcome to have a bash and see what you think. At the end of the day Amanda, you get great results out of it and I’m happy with mine, that’s what counts. If I had deep pockets I’d love to go for the forthcoming 1dx3, no doubt the anals would find something to critise though.

They are a bunch of knob ends on POTN on that thread, up their own backsides expecting a £1200 camera to be better than a £3k one. One guy bought one decided he didn’t want it instead of returning carried on using for the sake of it whacking up the shutter count. I picked it up and got told off by the mods, don’t follow the thread anymore. For a £1200 camera I find it ok. My hit rate for motorsports and rugby is higher than the 80 D it replaces so good enough for me. In live view you gain more fps, 11 as opposed to 7 in optical. Unfortunately I haven’t quite mastered tracking a 120mph racing car @300mm, camera at arms length looking at the screen.. I fear my hit rate may go down somewhat. Lol flippancy aside, the internals/processing etc are shared with its mirrorless equivalent.. by the sounds of it the systems are more bias to mirrorless with lack of optical. There may be a firmware upgrade to improve things though to be honest I’m not loosing sleep over it. Here’s a tricky fast moving shot with the lad in the foreground in the way, the camera did well to pick up the right player in what was frentic play.

A couple from Brands Hatch yesterday using the 90D.

One from Brands Hatch last week.

Got access to the sound mirrors at Dungeness yesterday..

The glass gets the results.. The 70-200L 2.8 is next on the list. Picked up a 24-70L 2.8, not used much yet but have high hopes.

Thanks Amanda. Nice shots of the Skoda, what gear are you using? Had enough of getting tangled up with the buds. Momentum’s are good, currently available for around £160, a lot of headphone for the dosh. Need a few hours running in before they sound the best though.

New camera turned up yesterday, brand new model from Canon, a 90D. Charged up the battery and caught a match..

No camera at the moment, waiting for a new one to be delivered. Decided to mess about with my iPhone and a few work lights.. found an unwilling victim lol. Click on the image for a better quality version.

Another Scottish one..

Sorry all, didn’t realise the time until it was too late, catch you next time.

I have a Dell XPS for home use, great machine, top end of your budget and you need to factor in a thunderport docking/ power unit if you use multi screens etc though can’t fault mine, does everything I throw at it with ease, 3D rendering, Ray tracing and other processor heavy stuff.

Isle of Arran..

One from the rugby.