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are you using a monopod? I was shooting rally this week using 1/640 at times.... and the monopod was a godsend.

Bret

we didn't do any more stages, we went to the ceremonial finish of the historic instead. And fun it was, too.

However, that also means I have an absolute shedload of pics (1200+) and I need to process.... and then upload. Fun fun fun!

Bret

the jumps aren't being run quite the same way as usual this year, so I'm reading and trying to work out where we're going tomorrow.

Inside of bends is a nightmare. They are way too fast to catch effectively, too many people and plain and simple "no".

The outside thing hasn't worked either, but we had a bit of fun on the first stage; the second one was Koukunmaa and it looked pretty crap, to be honest - until I sent the little monster up to the other end of the spectator area and she commented about the "bends coming down". Well, there were some bends, with a bigger one at the bottom, and positioning was good enough to get this:



so I'm reasonably happy.

We intend to go out tomorrow and get some images of the historic guys and do at least one other stage. Let's see how the energy levels go. I really am taking my stepladder, too; I saw an awful lot being carried around.

Bret

so, prepped and sorted - Rally Finland here we come... little monster making her own soggy sandwiches - I just hope it doesn't rain!

Bret

I've seen this again and again with the K5 that it "hides" information in dark areas. On the JPG, there's minimal detail (my "welcome to hell" sunset springs to mind immediately); the JPG out of camera has a huge, very dark grey cloud.

With 10 minutes in UFRaw, I have shapes and forms and textures in that grey mass and it seriously makes the picture.
If you're just working out of camera, you're missing out, big-time. Doesn't mean you can fix crap lighting or dodgy shadows - but you sure as hell can improve on something that wasn't bad to start with.

Bret

mine are generally 30MB - PEFs - so I'm looking at well over 800 per 32GB card. I use RAW+JPG (2mp).

Bret

there aren't many. all the