Hi all,

My mate picked up a Stock Car magazine for me last week at the first meeting of the new season ( I couldn't attend ).

It turned out I had one of my photos from last season printed as the 'coveted' centre spread.

Apparently a couple of the 'Pro' BriSCA F1 photographers wanted to know how I had got onto the infield to get the photo.

My mate put them right, he told them straight, the photo was taken from the back of the grandstand.

Their parting comments were "obviously our photos aren't good enough now!"

Here's the 'offending' photo,

K5 + 300mm DA*

John,

I had my K5II lock up on me twice in the space of about an hour.

I only use a battery in the grip.

Regards,

Chris.

Here are a few from todays meeting at Curborough Sprint.

K5 + 60-250 DA*

I'm still unsure about using this lens for motorsport, I know it's not the fastest focusing lens but I thought I'd have more 'keepers' than I ended up with.

I used it at a few meetings last season and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with the quality of some of the images I was getting.

My K5II locked up twice yesterday ( 3rd March ), grip was attached but not turned on, I only have a battery in the grip and not in the body too.

Battery is genuine Pentax.

Removing the battery cured the problem both times.

Just updated my K5II and K5, no problems.

Thanks,

Just updated.

http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-5_2_s.html

Regards,

Chris.

Thank you all for your great comments.

Here are the 5 photos.

These are as I sent them, apart from a crop they are straight off the camera, and they were printed as is.

All 5 were taken from the outside of the tracks.

The first photo is the one I took with the K5II @ ISO 12800, the rest are with the K5, all with 300mm DA*. The last photo is at ISO 6400

Regards,

Chris.

Hi all,

A few days ago an oval racing magazine got in touch with me asking for my contact details.

Throughout the 2012 racing season I sent them photos for possible magazine publication, but with so many other 'proper infield' photographers also sending them in I only had a few published this season.

They wanted my details because they had used some of my photos for a limited edition 2013 oval racing calendar they were producing.

When it arrived this morning I had a pleasant surprise, out of the 12 photos printed 5 of them were mine.

One of them was an ISO 12800 shot from my new K5II, it looked great at A4 size too, the other 4 were with my K5, all 5 were with my 300mm DA*

Mine were the only photos taken with a Pentax on the calendar as I know what cameras the others use.

Regards,

Chris.

Hi,

Here are 2 examples, but to be honest at the forum size you cannot tell to much of a difference, but at full size you can see a difference.

Both photos were taken at the same track with the same camera settings.

K5II + 300mm DA* ( F4 - 1/125 - ISO 12800 )




K5 + 300mm DA* ( F4 - 1/160 - ISO 12800 )

I've got a K5 and a K5II.

Personally I think the the low light AF is so much better. I also think that my high ISO photos look much better too.

Regards,

Chris.