diablo roadster - see my location
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Originally Posted by McLaren Mike
at least you have seen one in real life, that must have bin the best experience of your life, what camera did you have? were you just cruzing and saw it pop out, or were you stalking it, you should have kept going, you might regret it? Finally was the female recognisable?
-Mike
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Yeah - experience of a lifetime for sure. As I said at the top, it's kind of a long boring story as to how I got to see it. The 'Cliff Notes' version is that my friends saw it in the middle of the day when they were out driving. He was lost and trying to find that fund raiser party. They called me and I told them where it was (I know the area better than they do) and then I raced over to where he was headed, but by the time I got there they had already led him there and he was inside the gate. The house and parking area were about 500 yards from the gate and the car was not visible from the street. The guy at the gate was friendly, but could not let me in to see the car. He mentioned that the event was probably going to run for a few more hours, but that there was no telling how long any guest might stay. I had dinner plans which I couldn't break - plus sitting outside that gate for potentially several hours was not something I was prepared to do. After dinner though, I headed back over there and when I was halfway to the house the F1 passed me going the other way. Then the chase was on so to speak. It was truly awesome!!
As for my camera - I have a 5.0MP Sony F707 that I usually shoot with, but it's not very car friendly so I wasn't using it. These pics were taken with my older Sony DSC-S50, it's just a 2.0MP camera and the shutter controls aren't very sophisticated but the LCD on the back flips up and twists around which allows you to take a picture to the side while still looking at the road in front of you. It has some basic shutter and aperature controls but it's no where near as controllable as the F707. I switched the shutter speed to almost a full second and tried to hold the camera as steady as possible. In that first shot, the camera was actually set to macro focus when I turned it on, otherwise it wouldn't have been so blurry. If I'd had someone else in the car with me it would have been a lot better. I even could have gotten some video of the car with my F707 as I had both with me.
>8^)
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