competition – Roumazeilles.net https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology opinions and others Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:35:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Le Mans 2008 (part 3) https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/14/le-mans-2008-part-3/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/14/le-mans-2008-part-3/#respond Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:12:48 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/14/le-mans-2008-part-3/
Night race

Race car - panorama Race car - panorama
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After looking at these images I shot myself, I advise you to visit the excellent web site of Thomas Baekdal about Le Mans.

24 heures du Mans, 2008.

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/14/le-mans-2008-part-3/feed/ 0 Le Mans 2008 (pit stand) https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/13/le-mans-2008-pit-stand/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/13/le-mans-2008-pit-stand/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:09:11 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/13/le-mans-2008-pit-stand/ Here is a good example of a photographic opportunity caught at the right time. I am going to the first qualification runs of the 24h of Le Mans (endurance car race in the West of France). Of course, I did not forget to bring some photo hardware with me, even if I was told that the wire meshes are everywhere on auto race tracks.

And, while the weather seemed crappy for most of the day, we have an early evening with a superb light. I grab my brand new second-hand Minolta APO G 400mm tele-lens in order to move back and shoot over the metal obstacles (sometimes, under the up-turned corner of a metal net). Here is the result caught by my Sony Alpha 700, the best images I could catch in the stands: A place where there is always something happening -at least before the race itself.

Team waiting (Le Mans 2008) Solitude of the pilot (Le Mans 2008)

pit stand

pit stand pit stand
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Some of these images can be acquired as posters or as laminated prints on RedBubble.

24 heures du Mans, 2008.

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Prototype race car

Prototype race car Prototype race car
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24 heures du Mans, 2008.

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/06/12/le-mans-2008-part-1/feed/ 0 Phenom, incompatible with existing AM2 motherboards? https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/08/phenom-incompatible-with-existing-am2-motherboards/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/08/phenom-incompatible-with-existing-am2-motherboards/#respond Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:22:47 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/01/08/phenom-incompatible-with-existing-am2-motherboards/ This is more or less what has to be concluded from reading the articles currently published about the compatibility (more supposed than real) between the new AMD 4-core processor and the existing AM2-socket motherboards. But it seems that AMD will have to be a little more patient.

This is not a very good omen for the financial come-back of Intel’s main competitor that is still depending a lot of this year’s launch of 3- and 4-core processors.

Source: Tom’s hardware.

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