Racing cars and an u4/3'ds camera

mercphoto

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.






More here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurasz/sets/72157651161991056/

jmphotocraft

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?

Gary752

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?

GaryB

mercphoto

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).

jmphotocraft

Ah, gotcha.