Me in an Aston

[gary65]

Had a Aston Martin Drive at Brands Hatch today. How did i get the photo i hear you ask. Gave the old EOS50D with my broken Sigma 100-300 f4 to the missus and sent her to Druids in the rain, no settings to care about, set it on 'P' for her benefit. Now she wants to learn more.

[Tigger]

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yeah but on a plus note you could give her the 7D as "her camera" and you get the MkII ;o)

[anderson.council]

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Nice one Gary. How was the experience ?

[gary65]

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yeah but on a plus note you could give her the 7D as "her camera" and you get the MkII ;o)

Nice idea..

Nice one Gary. How was the experience ?

I didn't have a bad day,loads of fun, spoiled by the rain a little.

[RobertC]

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A good shot The day sounds good fun!

[gary65]

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A good shot The day sounds good fun!

It was mate, like I said the rain spoilt it a tad but other than that it was a good day. This was my birthday pressy for hitting the big Five O from the wife and my son. When I hit the less bigger Four O they got me a Rally day at Brands. I've never been more excited now about the bigger Six O...Oooh what will it be...

[DanFlag]

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Glad for you, twice the fun having her watch you drive the Aston Martin

[gary65]

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Glad for you, twice the fun having her watch you drive the Aston Martin

Cheers Dan

[tesarver]

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Gary

Tom

[Parsen66]

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She can handle a camera that's for sure. Hope you had a great day.

For your big six 0 it might be a day out in a mobility scooter

[chrisec]

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Looks like an exciting drive Gary, your missus takes a mean photo

[gary65]

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Gary

Tom

Thanks Tom

She can handle a camera that's for sure. Hope you had a great day.

For your big six 0 it might be a day out in a mobility scooter

LOL...I don't think I'm far from one of them now Alan

Looks like an exciting drive Gary, your missus takes a mean photo

Cheers Chris. I was not expecting nothing this good from her to be honest. She did do well. Also took good ones of the other cars on track as well, better watch my back.

[Freefaller]

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Nice photo - very very good for someone not familiar driving an SLR.

I drove an Aston at Silverstone a couple of years ago, for a very similar reason. Did you get the chance to really open it up around the short circuit at Brands? The V8 thunder at full throttle is absolutely biblical! Surprised you didn't mention that.

Was there a professional snapper there offering you prints when you got back to the pits? At Silverstone it cost me £25 (I think) for a couple of 10 x 8 prints plus a CD with the JPGs. Exif data said EOS 7D and 300mm f/4L so that was OK.

Martin

[gary65]

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Nice photo - very very good for someone not familiar driving an SLR.

I drove an Aston at Silverstone a couple of years ago, for a very similar reason. Did you get the chance to really open it up around the short circuit at Brands? The V8 thunder at full throttle is absolutely biblical! Surprised you didn't mention that.

Was there a professional snapper there offering you prints when you got back to the pits? At Silverstone it cost me £25 (I think) for a couple of 10 x 8 prints plus a CD with the JPGs. Exif data said EOS 7D and 300mm f/4L so that was OK.

Martin

Thanks Martin

Yep open her up, the sound is awesome, very quick. Never felt out of control. In the brief before we went out the guy did say that the Vantage was a big powerful friendly monster.

Silverstone is fine and all that but it dose not have this thing called 'Paddock Hill Bend'. It's blind, it's steep and it drops away from you....and then it drops away from you again and the car goes very light, there is no other place on it on earth (race circuit wise that is apart from the Cork Screw at Leguna Seca), it's a pants rumbler of a hill, and you can't see ahead apart from tarmac, it's fantastic. I'm at Brands most weekends, I know it's a steep hill, from inside a car it's a different experience altogether. I even told the instructor "this is the only reason why I'm here". I think he enjoyed that, he wanted me to go faster at every time we got to Paddock, but the rain was heavy and I was worried my talent might run out.

I have a 7D myself and was not going to trust the wife with it along with my L lenses. They are my work tools. I use the 50D still today, It's my second body when at events.

Yes there was a photographer there but it was only 'you' exiting the pit lane from what I saw. And I did not want my picture from there, I wanted it at Druids (which is where it was taken).

She did well, she got soaked in the process, did not complain once. She enjoyed it very much.

[David Stallard]

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Looks like you had a great time and I agree wholeheartedly about Paddock hill bend - when I did the Mustang day coming into it for the first time it was like "where the hells the track gone??" very scarey.

Ahh I remember well the day I offered a DSLR to Cory, "it's too big for my hands, too heavy etc etc" within 12 months we had 2 of almost everything and she is taking better shots than I (well that's what she thinks anyway - man I'm going to pay for that one)

BUT - honestly, having a hobby that we both share is awesome and I wouldn't have it any other way.

.DAVID.