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Micro 4/3 – can you feel the noise?

Posted on September 26, 2018October 3, 2018 by mark

It’s been a few months now since I bought my Olympus EM1 Mk2 and I’ve been to 9 events for the Oval Track Legends formula in that time. When I bought the camera I knew the downside of the micro 4/3rds sensor

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Golden hour creates some great photos

Posted on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 by mark

This weekend was a double-header in the UK Oval Track Legends series, with a visit to Ipswich, our local track, on Saturday evening followed by Yarmouth, an hour or so up the coast on Sunday evening. As both races were evening meets,

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Photo114

Posted on July 18, 2018July 20, 2018 by mark

I was at Swaffham Raceway on Sunday 15th July with my step-son and his cousin who were there to race their Rookie Rods, and of course I was taking lots of photos, including some of the other formulas racing there. One of

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Going too far?

Posted on July 12, 2018July 12, 2018 by mark

When I bought my first camera in June 2017, a Nikon D3300, all I thought I might do with it is take cool pictures of cars, motorsports being one of my main interests. I had a fairly good idea that “cool” involved

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Through the Fence – a motorsport nightmare

Posted on June 13, 2018June 19, 2018 by mark

At Hednesford Hills Raceway on Sunday with Damian and the short oval formula “Legends”. Like all oval tracks Hednesford is surrounded by a wire fence, for obvious and necessary safety reasons, which makes shooting through it a challenge, especially on Sunday as

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First thoughts on the EM1 Mk2

Posted on June 1, 2018 by mark

So I’ve had my new Olympus EM1 Mk2 for a couple of weeks, and thought I’d share my initial impressions of it. The first thing I found I had to do was download a proper user guide for it from the Olympus

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Sensors and Equivalence

Posted on May 21, 2018August 21, 2018 by mark

This article is based on nothing more than some internet babble I’ve read over the last few weeks and although it did form part of the basis for my decision to swap my APS-C format Nikon D3300 for a m4/3 format Olympus

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Change of Direction

Posted on May 21, 2018May 24, 2018 by mark

I’ve been pondering for a while whether my photographic path is the right one for me. I bought a DSLR thinking I’d take loads of cool pictures of cars and bikes and with a little (or a lot) of practise I’d be capturing

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Panning with the Sigma

Posted on May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 by mark

Went to Yarmouth stadium on Sunday 6th May to watch a family friend compete in the Rookie Rods formula, and took along the Sigma 150-600mm to see what I could do with it at an Oval track. Yarmouth is a bit different

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Cadwell Park – April 2018 – Bit of a disaster

Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 by mark

I went to Cadwell Park on Sunday 22nd April 2018 to once again support my friend Paul competing in the 2nd round of the 2018 No Limits bike racing event, Newcomer 1000 series. The weekend got off to an ominous start when

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