Excellent gallery, Paul. Many look like the full size thing. 45 years ago,
radio control was quite crude compared with today & the units were quite
large & heavy.
Alan C
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From: Paul Stenquist
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 11:29 PM
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Subject: GESO: Radio Control Scale Auto Racing
Shot an on-roadl radio control scale auto race for fuel burning cars
yesterday. Mostly just to provide some pics for my old pals, but also for
the practice it provides. It’s far more difficult than shooting real
motorsports, as the cars are incredibly fast and not very big. The fastest,
the 1/8th scale cars, are about 15 inches long and can accelerate to 60 in 2
seconds from a standing start. They top out at about 80 mph at the end of
the straightaway. I shot most of it at a 1/8000th shutter speed and
concentrated on getting something in frame and focused. I used continuous
autofocus and it worked when I framed the shots right. I tried a couple of
slower shutter pans and partially succeeded on one, although it’s not
critically sharp. Hard to be smooth, moving the camera that fast. Lots of
fun in any case. A gallery is here:
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1093049
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