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[coolcat]

Originally Posted by Weso

Thanks Jeff, the timings still there when I snap, it's the technology I am slow at, if I have to resort to the menu mid session I miss most of the match.

What do you recommend re photo imaging software, I presently shoot in jpeg but am very aware that raw is the way to go as I get more serious.

Given I have virtually no experience of imaging software and no legacy knowledge what would you recommend...

I shoot mainly in JPEG myself as shooting Motorsport even with a fast camera shooting RAW soon has the camera buffering as the file sizes are much larger.
I think RAW is more applicable to portrait and landscape type photography where things are a little more considered and your not firing off the shutter at a rate of knots

I use Photoshop CS 4 but I'm really not much into editing and try and get it right 'in camera' as best I can.
I wasn't much into Film developing back in the day either.
Photoshop Elements should be good enough for most peoples editing although I know a number of peeps also swear by Photoshop Lightroom

[Weso]

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[Gate Keeper]

Mark good morning. Are you going to edit in windows or Mac OS X ? I enjoyed looking at your kit lol. Your photos are nice n. Crisp. Last weekend I went to the BTCC with Jeff and Windrush. Motorsport is a new experience for me. I used 2 cameras. A bridge canon superzoom cam. it's electronic viewfinder struggled to cope with the panning and I gave up trying to use it. The Nikon DSLR handled the panning much better with its optical viewfinder. Naughty me has not uploaded the BTCC shots yet. I edit on a Mac OS X with Photoshop Lightroom 4, photo elements 11, A free one is Picasa 3 and is easy to use but does not have a noise reduction feature similar to the one which Lightroom has on board. I go to the adobe forums for tutorial videos being a learner

[Weso]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Mark good morning. Are you going to edit in windows or Mac OS X ? I enjoyed looking at your kit lol. Your photos are nice n. Crisp. Last weekend I went to the BTCC with Jeff and Windrush. Motorsport is a new experience for me. I used 2 cameras. A bridge canon superzoom cam. it's electronic viewfinder struggled to cope with the panning and I gave up trying to use it. The Nikon DSLR handled the panning much better with its optical viewfinder. Naughty me has not uploaded the BTCC shots yet. I edit on a Mac OS X with Photoshop Lightroom 4, photo elements 11, A free one is Picasa 3 and is easy to use but does not have a noise reduction feature similar to the one which Lightroom has on board. I go to the adobe forums for tutorial videos being a learner

Hi Philip and good morning,

I have only a windows 8 laptop, so that will be the path i take. As Jeff has suggested for sport etc jpegs will do. Other stuff landscapes, portraits etc i think there is something to be gained by shooting in raw etc.
Till i got the Olympus body in the last week i have been shooting with Panasonic gear about 4 years old which is about 6 production launches behind. Sensor technology is so fast moving as is EVF technology that the Olympus OMD is going to be a significiant step up in quality for me.
And the EVF should cope with panning not that i need it much for soccer but useful for motorsport.
Once EVF tech matures in the next year or so the mirrorless stuff is going to become a more serious option.
My local LCE photoshop in Norwich which has a used section that i monitor regularly and i now know the staff there. Long chat with them all recently about micro 4/3rds suggested to me that the camera trade all know that micro 4/3rds is the way to go but they cannot pursuade the general public to jump outside the Canon/Nikon DSLR bubble.

Mark

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by Weso

Hi Philip and good morning,

I have only a windows 8 laptop, so that will be the path i take. As Jeff has suggested for sport etc jpegs will do. Other stuff landscapes, portraits etc i think there is something to be gained by shooting in raw etc.
Till i got the Olympus body in the last week i have been shooting with Panasonic gear about 4 years old which is about 6 production launches behind. Sensor technology is so fast moving as is EVF technology that the Olympus OMD is going to be a significiant step up in quality for me.
And the EVF should cope with panning not that i need it much for soccer but useful for motorsport.
Once EVF tech matures in the next year or so the mirrorless stuff is going to become a more serious option.
My local LCE photoshop in Norwich which has a used section that i monitor regularly and i now know the staff there. Long chat with them all recently about micro 4/3rds suggested to me that the camera trade all know that micro 4/3rds is the way to go but they cannot pursuade the general public to jump outside the Canon/Nikon DSLR bubble.

Mark

Thanks for getting back Mark. I know nothing about 4/3rds or EVF and will be fascinated to understand it. I have seen the cameras in duty free and in the shops and wondered what they are like to use. My interest is in wild life photography and family events. I have not yet made up my mind about motorsports. I would like to see if I can get into the pits next time and sample the characters

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Thanks for getting back Mark. I know nothing about 4/3rds or EVF and will be fascinated to understand it. I have seen the cameras in duty free and in the shops and wondered what they are like to use. My interest is in wild life photography and family events. I have not yet made up my mind about motorsports. I would like to see if I can get into the pits next time and sample the characters

Probably going to go to Snetterton in August if you fancy it Phil
It has very good pit lane access

[coolcat]

Just thought I'd update this thread as my equipment has changed a little from three years back..

In my now larger Tamrac bag is as follows:

Canon 1D mk4 Dslr body

Canon 70-200L F2.8 is mk2 telephoto

Canon 100mm F2.8L is macro

Canon 24-105L F4 is standard zoom

Canon 16-35L F4 is wide angle

Canon 1.4x and 2.0x teleconvertors

Canon 600ex-rt Speedlite flash

As you can see I have now upgraded my camera and some of my lenses and gone over completely to Canon glass.

The next lens I'm going to be saving my penny's for is a second hand Canon 300L F2.8 is prime telephoto......it may take a while

P.s......I have some very nice Sigma lenses and a Canon gripped 7D up for sale here

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...d.php?t=235425

[clf]

Originally Posted by coolcat

Just thought I'd update this thread as my equipment has changed a little from three years back..

In my now larger Tamrac bag is as follows:

Canon 1D mk4

Canon 70-200L F2.8 is mk2 telephoto

Canon 100mm F2.8L is macro

Canon 24-105L F4 is standard zoom

Canon 16-35L F4 is wide angle

Canon 1.4x and 2.0x teleconvertors

Canon 600ex-rt Speedlite flash

As you can see I have now upgraded my camera and some of my lenses and gone over completely to Canon glass.

The next lens I'm going to be saving my penny's for is a second hand Canon 300L F2.8 is prime telephoto......it may take a while

P.s......I have some very nice Sigma lenses and a Canon gripped 7D up for sale here

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/foru...d.php?t=235425

That bag is very impressive Jeff :-)

Just found this on my phone, I used to use it for micro shots. A bit hit and miss, and very difficult to light

[coolcat]

Originally Posted by clf

That bag is very impressive Jeff :-)

Just found this on my phone, I used to use it for micro shots. A bit hit and miss, and very difficult to light

Wow..........that achieves some super close up detail

[Rocket]

I had a Pentax 12mp DSLR when I posted earlier in this thread in 2013.
I now have a 24mp Sony A6000 mirrorless



Sony A6000 with Sigma 30mm DN F2.8 Art lens by Paul Stickley, on Flickr

I have

Sony 16-50mm kit zoom

Sony 55-210mm zoom

Sigma 60mm F2-8 DN Art

Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN Art

Samyang 16mm F2.0 ED AS UMC CS

Nisin Di700a flash

Yongnuo YN560 flash

Extension tubes - for all my close up work. (approx £20 on ebay)


I really like the modern electronic viewfinders for the photography I do.

I can fit all this without the flashes in a smallish shoulder bag when I go for walks or the camera with one lens will fit in a jacket pocket.

The primes listed above are all really sharp and I rate them all. The zooms not so sharp but convenient and useful for video.



I have many lenses on my wish list but most realistic next lenses will be

Sony 70-200 F4 zoom - convenient and sharp (not so small though)

Samyang F2.0 135mm - fantastically sharp and F2 - I like using manual lenses on this camera as the magnification available in the viewfinder makes focusing so much easier.



So many choices of cameras today - full frame - aps-c - micro 4/3 - dslr - mirrorless- etc. etc

Thing is - they are all good and excel at different things in an ideal world I would like some of each