woah, you sure that price can get you an R-strap? that's like 50% off!

ceh, of course lah worth it LOL

not all G lenses are great la...

carrying two alphas during last PC fair damn nice. one for closeups with models, using my 50mm then the other one with the 1635 for group and booth shots BESTTTT

i see some talk on a flash adapter

ooo how much is that?
need to use that when i get my flashstands soon, either that or is there an umbrella holder that accepts the sony hotshoe as is?

dunno bout you but several factors play into the final product when panning.
zoom ratio vs DOF, your aperture setting, and most importantly your panning speed.
normally i bump up the aperture to at least f/11 for these kinda shots, keep my shutter as
low as insanely possible, depending on the focal length, i use a slower speed like 1/30 at 18mm for instance and 1/80 at 70mm
at telephoto length the key thing to look out for is your panning speed already. prefocusing helps as you've already have a wide
DOF at telephoto lengths.


panning speed can be disrupted by the speed of the vehicle itself - when drifting the speed at the front of the car is not the same as the speed at the rear of the car, so you've gotta be really careful to pan at the proper speed.


as you can see this shot was taken at f/10, which puts all of the car in the sharpest zone. However, only the grille is sharp thanks to the slower than usual shutter speed and my slower panning. to completely freeze the car, i will need to bump up the shutter speed to perhaps 1/400 and beyond, with a higher ISO speed of course.


edit - quoted wrong person LOL

This post has been edited by kev da man: May 5 2010, 11:39 PM

to get a right exposure, you need to balance three (or four things)
1) ISO
2) Shutter speed
3) Aperture
4) flash power (when using a flash)

bright sunny condition - ask yourself what do you want to expose? what is the correct exposure for a dark object? what elements i can blow out? do i expose for the sky or the person?
all these will come naturally to you when you learn and snap more, just ask yourself what is the level of light in correlation to your subject. the beauty of photography is that the photographer decides the exposure, not the condition decides the image.

so back to the question, what do you want to expose on a bright sunny day? XD

in that case, use shutter-priority and aperture-priority first to get the hang of what the camera perceives as an evenly-exposed photo, then start using manual lah don't forget metering is also important.

officially, just follow those guidelines for a couple of shots, add salt and pepper to taste in the rest