motorsport lenses?

[Dan_1981]

Jonsv8 said:

Dan_1981 said:

Both of mine - above - were shot through the fence

Fence distance relative to action, F stop you used, focal length etc? We're interested in learning but the static shot one of mine shows the fence clearly, the pan shots not so for more obvious reasons either though the fence was closer to the cars and so more likely to fall into the depth of field. There was also a contrast issue going on with a very light backdrop.

I'll try changing the F stop to reduce depth of field next time I'm there.

Apologies - I didn't provide much info did I - although all available on flikr.

The almost monochrome one is 300mm f5.6 1/2000, iso400 I was pretty close to the fencing.

[Jonsv8]

Dan_1981 said:

Apologies - I didn't provide much info did I - although all available on flikr.

The almost monochrome one is 300mm f5.6 1/2000, iso400 I was pretty close to the fencing.

Thanks - f5.6 is the limit of my lens at 300mm but I'll give it ago. The fence where I was was probable 15m away and the track 35m - the nearer you can get to the fence the more it disappears. I wanted to stop it down a bit as the sharpness improves a little when away from the extremes, you can't aways win and its what do you want to compromise on