Smelly... that Subaru ad where the photographer's carting around a camera with a big white lens taking photos of a rally... The camera looks like a Canon to me.
Then we get to see what the photographer sees (for half a second), and I swear the viewfinder's showing a Nikon focusing screen!!!!!!
I think that was for illustration purposes they stuck on the video camera. But the camera I think was a 1D2... I've lost the article where they talk about how it was all shot in Bathurst etc.
WHEN Dirk Klynsmith isn't filling his lungs with fumes photographing motor sport he's getting some fresh air doing nature photography.
Either way he's carrying about 20kg of camera equipment. Brisbanebased Klynsmith has been a full-time self-employed photographer for 12 years and has been using digital cameras since 2000. His career started when a friend who was involved in a V8 Supercars team invited him to take pictures.
"People liked them. I sold a few and it started from there," he says.
His first digital camera was a Canon D2000 whose pictures created a 5.7MB image, usable for newspapers but not magazines. The Australian is printed at 150 dots per inch, but some magazines run pictures at 300dpi or higher. He stuck with that brand because he could use his old lenses.
In his kit he has three zooms:
a 16-25, a 28-70 and a 70-200.
His one fixed lens is a 6kg 400 f/2.8 that must be used with a monopod to keep it steady.
The 400 zoom lenses look like small rocket launchers and are bulky, but they are the choice of most sport and nature photographers because of their ability to get close-up shots of distant subjects.
Tripods are not needed on the field, he says. He carries two camera bodies, a Canon EOS-1D and EOS-1D Mark II. He says his favourite accessories are the EOS 1D mark II and his Canon 400mm lens, despite its bulk.
His latest Canons deliver jpeg images of about 2.2MB compressed and 23MB uncompressed, which are more acceptable to magazines than the 5.7MB image of five years ago.
He saves his images to SanDisk Ultra II CompactFlash memory cards that write images at a minimum of 9 MBps, says the manufacturer.
He prefers not to have all eggs in one basket and has four 514MB CF cards and five 256MB CF cards.
None of the kit is much use if you don't know what to do with it.
Klynsmith says using flash, helps him capture the best images for his clients.
He has two Canon Speedlite 550EX with their own battery packs.
That's more weight, but worth it for him, he says.
"I use flash for arty stuff. I use it in the pits to get rid of shadows, I use it to take shots of drivers in their cars and at press conferences,"
he says.
"The flash is on at least one camera all the time. Flash helps to freeze the car, it helps to define the car."
While arty stuff may be a loose way to describe a lifetime's experience of taking pictures, he has plenty of customers to keep him busy.
He shoots for several magazines:
Australasian Motorsport News, and Motor Racing Australia; and for teams, Holden Motorsport and Britek.
He is the Australian shooter for New Zealand Speedsport, and his work is sought by Sutton Motorsport Images, a British library.
Klynsmith has his own website, www.graphicdakphotos.com He takes a laptop computer to events so he can send his pictures to clients as soon as possible. He can usually get a dial-up connection, but if he can't, he sends his images using the computer and his CDMA mobile phone, which easily handles his 600KB to 700KB files.
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MozzMann wrote:
Geez there are some cheeky bugger's around here 'eh.
Hey at least we can have a friendly jibe at each other and that the mateship that exists.
Some other forum's blimey they'd be fighting words.
Mozz
You see Mozz, the "L" Red Stripe was recently scientifically proven on some backwater anonymous web site to have the effect, by the influence of gentle gravitational perturbations in the Jovian and Martian orbits, of decreasing the diffraction in the red shifted end of the spectrum!
This effect renders a sharper image and better colour fidelity by at least a factor of 0, but on a good Tuesday in clear sun it can be as much as a factor of 0!
Didn't you hear? it has been scientifically proven that people who use Canon cameras and lenses have an increased attraction to the opposite sex? It also increases with the red rings around it... something they call the L factor or something.
Ed W wrote:
Smelly... that Subaru ad where the photographer's carting around a camera with a big white lens taking photos of a rally... The camera looks like a Canon to me.
Then we get to see what the photographer sees (for half a second), and I swear the viewfinder's showing a Nikon focusing screen!!!!!!
ya....i also dont think it's a canon screen
i think it's got 9 to 11 points....Subaru cheated!!
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