Pukekohe photos 1st April 2006

[erik]

Here are a few photos today from the round 4 AMCC club champs at pukekohe.
http://community.webshots.com/album/549081844ekMYtr

These were the few that I took on my own camera. Most of the day I was using Nodman's camera (more powerful zoom and higher resolution), so there will be more photos to follow in the next day or two hopefully.

[Kwaka-Kid]

Hey Erik, looks like ill be out all today. but if u like roll around to Nod's and pickup the camera/cable to install photos on ur pc :)

[NodMan]

Hey Erik, looks like ill be out all today. but if u like roll around to Nod's and pickup the camera/cable to install photos on ur pc :)
tell the truth...YOU forgot!!!....on way to Eriks now then we delete an YOU miss out hahaha...

[erik]

Ok, got the photos from Nodman's camera and have edited and resized them.
They're all in the album with the first lot of photos:
http://community.webshots.com/album/549081844ekMYtr

If you want any of the original photos, email the the image name and I'll send it to you. Be aware though that the 5 megapixel images are around 900kB each.
The 10x zoom was good for the hairpin shots, but I was still getting used to the camera so a lot of the pics aren't as good as they could be. I think the LCD viewfinder made tracking the fast moving bikes more difficult than with my cheaper canon a40 which just has a optical (but not through the lense like an SLR) viewfinder.

[Keystone19]

Great photos Erik - well done!

[Lazy7]

this one is great. kawasaki leading all the suzukis around the track!

http://image36.webshots.com/37/1/96/28/2128196280086871642GtSzgm_fs.jpg :rolleyes:

[Kwaka-Kid]

Ok, got the photos from Nodman's camera and have edited and resized them.
They're all in the album with the first lot of photos:
http://community.webshots.com/album/549081844ekMYtr

If you want any of the original photos, email the the image name and I'll send it to you. Be aware though that the 5 megapixel images are around 900kB each.
The 10x zoom was good for the hairpin shots, but I was still getting used to the camera so a lot of the pics aren't as good as they could be. I think the LCD viewfinder made tracking the fast moving bikes more difficult than with my cheaper canon a40 which just has a optical (but not through the lense like an SLR) viewfinder.

cheers Erik, just realised, if the images are only 900kb you still had 1 more setting higher to go, sets them to around 2.4mb each. Also the 10x zoom is optical eh?

anyways, thanks heaps for the pics dude!

[Motoracer]

Thanks for the pics erik! You've done a great job with them, as always. :2thumbsup

[erik]

I think they're on the max resolution the camera can do, 2272x1704 pixels.
But they were taken on normal quality which uses slightly higher jpeg compression (around 8% compression or 92% quality which ever way you look at it).
I don't think I can tell the difference between normal and fine quality, most of the time for photos on the web I compress them around 25% and they look good.
Yep, the 10x zoom is optical. :) Digital zoom is a waste of time since it basically just crops the image.

Cheers for the comments everyone :)

[Quasievil]

thanks for the pictures Eric, got a couple of nice ones of me, cheers for that .

[Two Smoker]

Once again, Wicked photos erik :niceone: huge thanks for that mate :niceone:

[motobob]

Well eric I get my bike looking pretty and you don't take any pics of it what gives?

[erik]

Sorry. I don't know which bike is yours. I try to get photos of bikes/riders I recognise, if they've already gone past then I try to get photos of the other bikes. So it's bad luck I guess. Let me know what number/bike/class you are racing in and I'll try and get a photo of you next time.

[motobob]

94 in F2 if I don't change the number again.

[gpercivl]

Hey Motobob he only got one of me too, and I'm one of Nodman's son's biggest supporters...most dissappointing. Good to see us old buggers at the back of F2 eh?

[Kwaka-Kid]

I'm one of Nodman's son's biggest supporters

eh? What do you mean ONE of my biggest supporters? you're it dude! Hahaha, the biggest and the only one who initially put his own bike where his thoughts were so to speak. Yeah the old bugger sometimes said i might be an alright rider/racer, but that i started too late... even so, the tight prick never thought hed risk a dollar of his own! :P *dig* *dig* P.S that was a joke, please dont start charging me to keep my various bikes/tools/stuff in your garages dad!:confused:

[Scorpygirl]

eh? What do you mean ONE of my biggest supporters? you're it dude! Hahaha, the biggest and the only one who initially put his own bike where his thoughts were so to speak. Yeah the old bugger sometimes said i might be an alright rider/racer, but that i started too late... even so, the tight prick never thought hed risk a dollar of his own! :P *dig* *dig* P.S that was a joke, please dont start charging me to keep my various bikes/tools/stuff in your garages dad!:confused:

Neat one KK. I know your Dad, Mum and Bruce are so proud of you!!! Rhino and Scorpygirl are proud of you to. :grouphug:

[NodMan]

eh? What do you mean ONE of my biggest supporters? you're it dude! Hahaha, the biggest and the only one who initially put his own bike where his thoughts were so to speak. Yeah the old bugger sometimes said i might be an alright rider/racer, but that i started too late... even so, the tight prick never thought hed risk a dollar of his own! :P *dig* *dig* P.S that was a joke, please dont start charging me to keep my various bikes/tools/stuff in your garages dad!:confused:

You asked for this one...I gotta be 20kg heavier than Greg so that makes me(and the Michelin Man hahaha) your biggest supporters!!!

ANYWAY son wheres the pics of ya 73 yr old brolly dolly then???
(I bet some womens magazine would pay good money for that scoop story)

ONLY RACER I KNOW THAT KEEPS HIS RACE VAN STOCKED WITH ....
GRANNY MINTS
..... for the more mature biker groupies...so I hear!!!