Was at a raptor wildlife center at Perth last year, was shooting with 85mm f/1.4G... hit and miss on focusing ._. LOL!!! You know how slow that lens is... the glass too big and also small SWM motor.

Haha... for panning its more of practice than equipment. Bigger lens are much heavier and not so easy to handle.

Probably cropped, I can't recall. Was shooting with D700 and even 400mm is insufficient reach when you're at Sepang for most of the turns.


#84 Roberto Rolfo, Speed Master by CY Pixels, on Flickr

This one not cropped I think

Exposure, going any lower means I need to up my shutter speed which means less panning effect.

Thanks

Just click the photo. I did not remove the EXIF when uploading to Flickr.

Whops! I messed it up ._.

Hahaha! Don't flash can already la

LOL... your NEX senang la can burst so quickly, but buffer can hold or not?

Shoot faster shutter then, higher hit rate, less panning effect.

Entire morning was spent trying to replace my AIPO 88L humidifier unit. Received the replacement from Proling because mine was dripping water inside the dry box! Upon unboxing the replacement unit, I noticed the replacement unit looks a little different from my current... the power connector placement and the cover also looks very low class.

Nevermind, I then uninstalled from my drybox and installed the new one. Took me almost 1 hour as 1/6 screw cannot fit due to humidifier hole offset quite a bit. Decided to seal the hole instead, then when I wanna power up need to plug the cable into the center control... Mana tau damn bummer, both the humidifier and center control are male sockets! In the end need remove and fix back my old one T_T... damn and damn lor...

I decided to open up the humidifier unit... the water drip because the somehow the sponge didn't absorb the water to release to outside of the box. Actually nothing wrong with the unit. I rearranged the sponge, and cleaned up the heatsink. Let's see how it goes, so far so good lol. Other side I'm waiting to see what Proling reply me.

Tamron 17-50 is pretty decent in terms of optics, but bear in mind focusing is quite... crappy on the tamron.

There's still new units around, only reason you consider the D700 is when,

1. 8fps
2. price

If not, its the D800 better all rounder.

Or maybe their focusing chip doesn't really work well with Nikon AF system Maybe kena sabotage xD

When they say build up good lens first, it means buying FX lens. My case, I started with 50, 70-200, 16-35, 85 then jump to FX. After I jump to FX only added 35 and TC.

50mm f/1.8G is a FX lens, 70-300 also is FX just if you jump FX you need a mid range or a UWA... consider the 24-120, 24-70 or 16-35? or the mighty 14-24

Except when you need the 1.5x telephoto I technically "went back to DX" when shooting MotoGP with my D800


#4 Andrea Dovizioso, Monster Yamaha Tech 3 by CY Pixels, on Flickr

Pic is noisy... mainly due to high ISO, but it was raining also so that's affecting the optics too

Comparison when shooting without the rain...


#35 Cal Crutchlow, Monster Yamaha Tech 3 by CY Pixels, on Flickr

Landscape and motorsport panning also will dulan kaw-kaw haha...

Unless you're shooting in Australia then it could be flies... I had to burst when taking landscape... cause the fly tend to get into my frame and spoiling the pic! LOL

But if you want to do in future will probably dulan kaw-kaw... you spend more time cleaning than shooting, if not then more time PP haha!

Get the DX since you're on DX. Unless you planning to go for the bigger bomb... the f/1.4G.

Are you... stalker? Just kidding haha! Lots of reach in that lens on DX but loose quite a bit on the wide end.

D800, fatt!

D800... can shoot 6fps at crop mode, useable with 70-200 for Msia Open

Hahaha, I was holding it the entire time during MotoGP for 2 days, survived! Shoot on monopod lor since you no need move around right

Decentering will happen to all lens, but zoom lens more pron to this... including my Nikkor 16-35

Ahh, last year during Super GT I was lugging my Manfrotto monopod around too. Then got tired because getting lower hit rate than handheld -.-, then it became a burden for me to carry around while on the track

Definitely better image quality than the kit lens.

Might be equally heavy, but D3 vs D700 with grip+AA, the D3 is much easier to handle due to weight distribution.

Broke? So what happened to it? Your D800 not getting much love leh

Wait till you have tried it out yourself, before I used one I also thought that way.

Haven't been following... but if you want promo wait for Black Friday or Cyber Monday... last year one damn nice lor, sadly I bought my cards before that

Cloudy night... you probably have better chance during a clear sky night.