Club Arnage
Club Arnage => Help => Topic started by: mike(liverpool boys) on April 14, 2008, 06:53:13 pm
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Im looking for a camera to take to LM this year that will take a decent shot of a moving race car and just general other snaps.
Im a total amature with cameras and dont know a thing about what to look for.
Im looking at a budget of around £200 max.
Any ideas???
Mike
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Mike
You'll get a decent compact for that, or a bargain DSLR if you're lucky.
One thing to check though if you're tempted by a compact, is the time taken between you telling the camera that you'd like it to take a photo, and it taking it. Our sony compact takes .5 to 1 second, even if you've got it ready by pressing the button 1/2 way down. This doesn't seem long, but in reality is an age if you're trying to snap a car at 150 mph, or an energetic child.
Try them out in a shop, don't leave this to chance.
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Mike
You'll get a decent compact for that, or a bargain DSLR if you're lucky.
One thing to check though if you're tempted by a compact, is the time taken between you telling the camera that you'd like it to take a photo, and it taking it. Our sony compact takes .5 to 1 second, even if you've got it ready by pressing the button 1/2 way down. This doesn't seem long, but in reality is an age if you're trying to snap a car at 150 mph, or an energetic child.
Try them out in a shop, don't leave this to chance.
easy cheat around that and that is to half depress the shutter first and then take the shot.
::) ::)
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Mike, have a look on amazon uk, one link here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fuji-FinePix-S9500-Digital-Optical/dp/B000ARP06W/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1208198088&sr=1-46
Brian
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Mike,
I've got one of these : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fuji-FinePix-S6500-Digital-Camera/dp/B000IHYS2Q/ref=pd_sbs_ce?ie=UTF8&qid=1208198088&sr=1-46 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fuji-FinePix-S6500-Digital-Camera/dp/B000IHYS2Q/ref=pd_sbs_ce?ie=UTF8&qid=1208198088&sr=1-46)
My photos taken with it here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/13953963@N04/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/13953963@N04/)
Newer version is here : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fujifilm-FinePix-S8000fd-Digital-Camera/dp/tech-data/B000UUHL2K/ref=de_a_smtd?ie=UTF8&qid=1208204689&sr=1-7
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fujifilm-FinePix-S8000fd-Digital-Camera/dp/tech-data/B000UUHL2K/ref=de_a_smtd?ie=UTF8&qid=1208204689&sr=1-7)
Ade
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Cheers guys,that gives me a good idea of what im looking for.
Ade,whats the delay like on your camera for catching a moving car???
You have a PM as well.
Mike
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What did you do before you found CA, thats advice on speaker rattles and now digital cameras ;)
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What did you do before you found CA, thats advice on speaker rattles and now digital cameras ;)
I used to buy crap that was no good and get angry and hit things that rattled ;D ::) ;D
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Ade,whats the delay like on your camera for catching a moving car???
Mike
I've only used it twice for motorsports so I don't really know.
All I did to take those photos was to:
i) set the camera to shutter priority
ii) focus on the part of the track I wanted to take the photo
iii) 1/2 press the shutter button to lock the focus & aperture
iv) hold the shutter button down, look up the track for a car, pan with car
v) when car was where I had pre-focused fully press shutter button.
vi) pray ;D
Ade
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Try these sites for camera reviews
http://www.dpreview.com/ (http://www.dpreview.com/)
http://www.steves-digicams.com/ (http://www.steves-digicams.com/)
And as nickliv said "Try them out at the shop".
Ade
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What did you do before you found CA, thats advice on speaker rattles and now digital cameras ;)
I used to buy crap that was no good and get angry and hit things that rattled ;D ::) ;D
Ah, the time honoured tactic of percussive maintenance.
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What did you do before you found CA, thats advice on speaker rattles and now digital cameras ;)
I used to buy crap that was no good and get angry and hit things that rattled ;D ::) ;D
Ah, the time honoured tactic of percussive maintenance.
More like destructive maintainance,that subwoofer that used to rattle in my boot now lives in my shed in several bits. It recieved a swift smack with a hammer one day while trying to stop the rattle ;D
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Could be worse, you could have tried to fix the rattle by introducing a can full of expanding foam.
Why haven't you put it back together with gaffa tape?
Hammer, tin of expanding foam, and gaffa tape - the staples of any tooklit
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Could be worse, you could have tried to fix the rattle by introducing a can full of expanding foam.
Why haven't you put it back together with gaffa tape?
Hammer, tin of expanding foam, and gaffa tape - the staples of any tooklit
B F I = Brut Force and Ignorance ;)
