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:Me]

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/...2GtSzgm_fs.jpg

[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.

[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 huge thanks for that mate

[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?