But Doug, the Lola is all wobbly looking...didn't you have your graduated anti-heat-shimmer filter fitted? Or perhaps the Lola was already starting to burn...(it later retired in a fairly decent-sized fire) Those Dyson guys just have bad luck.
Good shot Doug, both of them. I'm still mad you can shoot from outside turn 1 like that :) CW missed the race for work, again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:08 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Diesel Prototype > Doug Franklin wrote: > >> DIAL UP WARNING: THIS IMAGE IS OVER 600,000 BYTES IN SIZE! >> http://nutdriver.org/IMGP1464.jpg > > Thanks for all of the great comments, folks. There have been so many > I'd be here the rest of the night thanking everyone individually, so > here's a collective "thanks" to all of you. :-) > > In response to Jon, yep, we're going to VIR this weekend to run a CCPS > race in the RX-7. If we don't get a finish, we'll have to run the ARRC > and get a finish there. > > Thanks for spotting the stuck pixel, Boris. > > Keith: "shutter speed was only 1/250 and even the front wheel label (?) > BREMBO is perfectly readable ~ not blurred!" -- that's the hard part of > doing those shots :-) It was also the 300/4.5 mounted on the *ist D. > That's why I think SR could really help on the vertical shaking. The > first couple of days I forgot my monopod and had to hand hold the > 400/5.6 on the *ist D. Amazingly, I got a couple of usable shots that > way. > > As to the Audi R-10, yep, it's hotter than heck. And amazingly quiet. > The other cars would roar by, and the R-10s almost "whooshed". And > really fast when the conditions came to them, or maybe went away from > the others. At one point near dusk, the first place R-10 was pulling 6 > seconds a lap on the second place one, who was pulling 6 seconds a lap > on the field. They were lapping faster than 1m 15s per lap. The lap > record, set in an F1 car in a vintage race recently, is right at 1:10. > > Ok, this is a different photo from the same event (the Petit le Mans). > I'll pull that one out and do it in smaller versions later. For now, > here are some more "desktop friendly" (cropped) sizes of another one > that I really liked. > > (136,149 bytes) http://NutDriver.org/IMGP2279-800x600.jpg > (223,985 bytes) http://NutDriver.org/IMGP2279-1280x768.jpg > (540,295 bytes) http://NutDriver.org/IMGP2279-2401x1800.jpg > (809,300 bytes) http://NutDriver.org/IMGP2279-3038x2022.jpg > > That last one is the original from the camera. > > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/492 - Release Date: > 10/23/2006 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
