It was a crazy idea -- shooting motor sports with an iPhone4. Anyone who's ever used the iPhone's camera would tell you that it can't be done -- it's too slow, too inflexible, too cumbersome. And they'd be right. Out of the box, the iPhone's camera is crippled.
A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the QuickPix app, and it changed the camera (and my thinking) completely. QuickPix cures most of what ails the iPhone's camera -- it speeds it up, allows you to shoot bursts, and gives you control over the exposure. It also infected my mind, and I began to have ridiculous dreams. Cover a drag race with an iPhone? Well, fine, I said to myself. Let's see what happens at the American Drag Racing League's [ADRL] race at Maple Grove Raceway.
Richie Stevens, Jr., performs a burnout, Maple Grove Raceway, 7 May 2011. (Photo copyright John Edwin Mason, 2011. Click on the image to see a larger version.)
The first thing to say is, yes, you can shoot drag racing with an iPhone4 and the QuickPix app. There are some limits, of course, but the overall results blew me away....
You can read the rest of this post and see many more or the photos on my racing blog, here.
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