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I was in Italy the last few days with my dad, specifically in the Bologna / Modena region - touring all the supercar manufacturers. Anyhow, we ended up in Imola yesterday, turns out we lucked out and the Ferrari Challenge cup was racing - free to attend which was a nice bonus.
So I had my first attempt at motorsports photos with the Z6. Now bearing in mind I only had the 24-70 on me - so totally the wrong lens I did learn some interesting things.
1. Extended high FPS mode is totally useless when trying to track objects... I thought the minuscule delay would be OK - it's not. So you are limited to 5FPS or so, which is a shame.
2. I found it WAY harder to get panning images, usually I have a hitrate of 20-30% but I think it was more like 5% - I can't put my finger on why, but it was interesting to see how different this was.
This being said, for the rest of the trip this was the perfect camera, low light shots looked incredible, and the small-is size and ease of use meant I've come away with a lot of amazing photos to remember this trip by.