(to be strictly accurate it was a weekend at the races)
Last weekend I accompanied Larry to a club motorsports event at Sonoma Raceway. Larry was driving his Miata, and I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to test out my new camera. (One reason I bought it was to give me a lighter camera bag to carry along when I was photographing motorsports, but this was the first time I actually got to try it out for that). <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/GESO/LarryHavingFun.jpg> (Olympus E-M1X + Olympus 40-150/f2.8 @ 150mm, 1/200 sec @ f/16) I not only got to try out my new camera - I got to ride around in the other seat a few times. This was a lot of fun, but by no means uneventful!. Part way through the first session we lost all the brakes. (As I remarked to Larry afterwards, just about the last thing you want to hear the driver say is "Oh sh*t!") Fortunately this happened at a part of the track where there was plenty of room to slow down. One new brake cylinder later we went out for another session. This went well, but on the cool-down lap we were flagged down because there was smoke coming out from under the hood. Fortunately it was just a filler cap that had worked loose, but that did necessitate a bit of cleanup work on a hot engine. I'm putting together a gallery of some of the other shots that I took over the weekend; I'll post a link to it when it's done. Suffice it to say, though, that I'm well satisfied with my new camera. It seems odd to be using something else after 50 years with Pentax, but my shoulders thank me at the end of the day. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
