I had an Industry pass for the event, so I was not actually able to be on the floor with the actual photographers once bikes were on the track. Most of my shots were taken during the practice rounds, where I could be low in the stands right by the track. And then our actual seats were about 25 feet from the edge of the track with about 6 or 8 feet in elevation difference. The 7D did a fantastic job! I shot a few sequences of the riders coming straight at me through the whoops. AF and Drive were both incredibly impressive. I probably would not have bought a 7D by choice, but I got an incredible deal on Craigslist on a barely used 7D, and I was able to sell my old XSi kit and an extra lens that came with the 7D and break even, therefore getting the 7D for free. (The lens was a Tokina fisheye that I did not particularly like by the way)


I shot most of my stuff around f/3.5. I had a rental 70-200, and it wasn't incredibly sharp @ 2.8 ( Probably needed AF Micro adjustment, but I wasn't able to do that). Other than my aperture, my exposures were all over the place. Some were as high as 1/2000 @ ISO2000 some were at 1/500 @ ISO 800. Looking back on it, A lot of the shots I am disappointed with were just not high enough shutter speed. I would say the majority though were over 1/1000. I did take a few panning shots of RV & JS at 1/50 ISO100 though that I particularly like.