Racing cars and an u4/3'ds camera

mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
edited March 13, 2015 in Sports
Thought I'd share some pictures I took at the Pirellie World Challenge race at COTA this past weekend, plus my thoughts on the Olympus OM-D E-M10 and their 40-150 f/4.0-5.6 lens. Being a mirrorless micro-4/3rds camera the body is quite small and light, as is the lens, and the effective reach is 300mm. I wasn't expecting this combination to perform like my 40D and my 2.8 telephotos (it didn't), but I was expecting it to be much more friendly to my hands (it was). And it actually did a reasonable job. I think an E-M1 body coupled to a PRO f/2.8 or f/4 lens would have done surprisingly well and still have been friendly to my hands and fingers.

I had a keeper rate about 50%, much lower than I'm used to. But I was able to get down to 1/50 shutter speeds, which is quite low, and still get keepers. Part of the low keep rate was due to me being so out of practice with panning, but I could tell part of it was due to the camera not aquiring focus as fast or tracking it as well as I'm used to. I blame me for over half the issues though. The equipment did surprisingly well on fast moving race cars, espcially given the price.

All images shot in-camera JPG in Olympus Vivid mode. Zero editing.

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Bill Jurasz - Mercury Photography - Cedar Park, TX
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Comments

  • jmphotocraftjmphotocraft Registered Users Posts: 2,987 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2015
    Nice colors and exposures and panning, but the comps are really loose and I don't like the cut-off spoiler. I feel like I've seen better from you, what's up?
    -Jack

    An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
  • Gary752Gary752 Registered Users Posts: 934 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2015
    Nice job, considering it was your first time out with the new camera! I had to chuckle when looking at the one all the way on the right in the next to the last row! I imagine quite a few drivers got confused at where they were supposed to be, the way the track is painted, reason for all those skid marks?rolleyes1.gif

    GaryB
    GaryB
    “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” - Ansel Adams
  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2015
    Thanks Jack. Yes, I have done better. A few reasons: lack of real practice since late 2010. New camera. And nerve damage (which is why I haven't done much in 4+ years).
    Bill Jurasz - Mercury Photography - Cedar Park, TX
    A former sports shooter
    Follow me at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurasz/
    My Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/mercphoto?ref=hdr_shop_menu
  • jmphotocraftjmphotocraft Registered Users Posts: 2,987 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2015
    Ah, gotcha.
    -Jack

    An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
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