Hi everyone, long time no see, got a bit disheartened with my K10D for a while thanks to the useless low light focusing and the fact that my Metz AF48 flash doesn't really do P-TTL properly as far as I can gather. Anyway, headed out into the Adelaide Hills forests today, and discovered that the AF-C performance was much better than I remembered - far, far from Nikon standards, but not as bad as I remembered and I got a lot more successful shots and it was really nice to worry about manual pre-focusing so much, which isn't that successful a lot of the time.
On with the show...
Well, wasn't today fun
After last year, the organisers of RallySA decided they couldn't be bothered setting up the major spectator park at Mt Crawford or whereever the hell it is, so for anyone still interested in the event it was pretty much free reign as there weren't many officials around. I went to 3 different areas, and by far the best was where the spectator park WOULD be had this been last year. With all the plastic barriers and most of the tape gone, it made for much better photography! There were only 2 officials on the entire site, basically - one told myself and someone else to move "behind the yellow safety tape" and we ignored them because we were out of the danger zone of the corner and protected by trees.
Uh, background stuff, all photos taken with a Pentax K10D and Sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX DG, aperture/shutter priority, a few are cropped, otherwise unedited, just resized.
Morning - just out of Birdwood, leading into a stage start -
Kiddies love it -
Mid-morning, near Lenswood, taking a back road from Lobethal -
Note the car number and the sign -
The naked spectator park -