From: cptomes (cptomes@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 11:56:38 EDT
On my 4300 (at close ranges, ~20 feet) I find a good target to focus
on that will be in the frame when I want to take the shot, and push
the release halfway. The camera then holds that focus. I track the
bike through its path of motion until I get to the selected
background and then push the rst of the way. By the end of the day
last Saturday (the first time I had ever used that camera, all prior
work I have done with a Canon EOS 35mm) just about every shot was a
keeper with the bike filling ~75% of the frame.
Longer distances are an issue. You didn't say whether you were
tracking the cars at speed, or just trying to get them in the corner
when they happened to be there. That extra ~2 sec of lining up the
car in the frame really helped for me.
Complete amateur here...
--- In NikonCoolPix@yahoogroups.com, "avidgamefan" <avidgamefan@y...>
wrote:
> Oh, one thing I have done, particularly when I went to an air show,
is
> move the camera along with the subject, pressing the shutter while
> moving. This reduces the motion blur. I got very acceptable shots,
> even with planes moving 400 MPH close by.
>
> Then again, sometimes motion blur looks good, particularly on a
> racecar. Sometimes a bit of blurring in the right places will work
> for ya. (I say this as a strictly ameteur photographer, mind you.
> :-) )
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