MY F1 PHOTOGRAPHIC KIT 

Your scarf game is strong mate. Thanks for this gear insight!

You are combining two things I love: Formula 1 and photography :)) Awesome Stuff !!!

"NO FULL AUTO IN THE BUILDING!" "No, this is not full auto." "No??" "this is full auto" 0:45

Love the battle damage on the 70-200

Kym rocking another stylish scarf!

No need for the gym when you have to haul that lot about

It's amazing how high you get your ISO for those fast shots in a daytime! interesting video, thanks for sharing.

There's now a Mark III...upgrading anytime soon? 😀

Fantastic!!!! I appreciate so much your work! It joins both things I love most: photography and F1! Regards from Brazil!

Kym you are such a talented Man 📸📸 👍👍

I love F1 and photography and I’ve always been curious on how some of those shots were taken. Great video enjoyed it very much!

Keep making this kind of great content for us,I just live your videos kym,your insta page is also great.

Your presentation skills match those of your photography. I discovered you one day too late..! I am an old dude and struggle to carry my kit, only really bought decent kit when I retired, more for landscape and stationary cars etc. Nikon D800 user with the Nikon holy trinity group of lenses, also nifty fifty, 24-70, 16-35. x2 converter for the 70-200 and a Tamron 150-600 to get max reach for min cost. I have to minimise the weight to carry round the track and chose my 24-70 for static pics and the 150-600 for trackside to cover the max amount of track length from each location around the track... I read you on the CP but it decreases shutter speed, which is not too handy we do not get as much sun as in Oz or the Emirates.. (-: I covered two track events in the last six days for friends, loads more to learn. BIG thanks from me Kym.

Brilliant Kym. Thanks.

Hi Kym, Thank you! You got me thinking and I grab some ideas from you I was not able to thought by 'self. Hope to see you around in Bcn Test 2nd Week. Would love to salute you at some break at work.

Great Kym, loving your videos and GP action. I went to 1st Australian GP in Adelaide and was granted all areas pass through Arts Council. Loved all the people shots and local scenes a la street photography. Still doing Street. Keep on clicking they say. Best to you.

The 135mm is my favorite lens, the portraits out of it is something else

Very interesting how you prepare for the races. I photograph wildlife and I can say that it is mostly the same equipment.

Comprehensive review of equipment used, 12 fps is impressive. Thanks for sharing

I’m loving this channel

You have my dream job. Thank you providing some insight on how you do your work. I love it.

This man is the truth! A real pro.

Learn a lot from this video. Hope you can do more educational video like this. Happy F1.

Love your photo @4:22

Love from India

I love your racing tire with the LEDs! So cool. Great video, I enjoyed seeing all of the equipment that you use.

That was brilliant mate!

As a photographer myself (let’s be honest, F1 is a goal in my career ahah), that’s the stuff that interests me the most. I love how you use some lenses that I never thought were used on a track (I’m particularly thinking about the TSE here, as much as I loved those lenses I never thought about using their creative potential on track), as well as the triggers to fire your two cameras at the same time. Anyway, keep up your good work, both on track and off track discussing photography. And maybe see you around a track at some point 👍🏻

Lot's of stuff to be carried around, but the moment you've shown the tilt shifted photos I lost it ... I'm a sucker for these, especially when it looks like miniatures, amazing :D

Nifty-fifty for life...

Great insights on your gear I learnt a few thing that I can use in my own photography. BTW your presentation style is very upbeat. Also great that you are an Aussie!

I like that 100 to 400 one, thanks for the update mr Illmam

Wow Kym! That was a fantastic video. I'm a newbie to photography, and now I feel like an expert after watching this video. I think I just found a new hobby! LOL!!!

Love the shots from the Canadian GP, you're giving me inspiration for next year's race. Although I wish I could sneak my camera into the press conferences

Your videos are fantastic 😊

Some good insights into lenses here, I'm mainly doing rallying, on a tight budget, but am using a 5d Mark ii as my main body at the moment, with a 70d and a 1d Mark ii as backups. Main lens I use is the 70-200 2.8 L (non IS), along with a 17- 40 (my favourite for versatility), although I also have and use a 24-105. The other lens I have and use in a 100-400 mark I - obviously all L series. I was told by one photographer to stick with the L series lenses, and not to muck around with non Canon lenses!!!!

Great video! Super interesting - good set of kit there!

Thanks for sharing your experience and skills.

Love the videos! Expertly edited, beautifully crafted, and well written! Keep going! I joined to support you.

You have amazing shots, Formula 1, Canon... right on my alley! But still, wonder why you are using as a photo example for the 70-200 lens a photo of Jerry Andre also F1 photographer from Germany and done with a Nikon D5? min2.35

Great video. Love the beat up 70-200

Just crossed over your YT channel and in two words: Respect and Amazed! (no wonder over 50K!!!)

Nice video mate, greetings from Brazilian shipspotter.

Makes me smile at the wimps with their "walkabout" 18-135 lenses

Amazing ! ♥️

Love your videos, Kym! I've been shooting local motorcycle road racing (think MotoGP of Colorado) for a couple years now and really have learned a lot about equipment, workflow and technique. Hope to be shoulder to shoulder with you one day at a race!

Thanks!

Good stuff mate.

Nice kit

@2:37 there is a Nikon D5 in the metadata

Thank you for the great info. I'm going to the Austin Grand Prix this year and looking on renting a lense for my Canon 90D.

What a great video, thank for charing.

Can you do a office/studio tour

That's a fortune! But anyway, are you considering mirrorless cameras in the future?

i have two of the prefered lenses / with the 7d mark 11 is a awesome combo but the 600 mm is a dream lens

So im new to f1 photography and i have a question; do you guys pay for your tickets and personal expenses by yourself or you get paid?

You should have some serious biceps with those heavy Camara’s! Also, you did mention a couple videos ago that you will share some presets you use in Lightroom. Are they already out?

Before watching: figures some of the kit will cost roughly as much as major F1 car parts, possibly even sections.....

Just bought the 70-200 2.8 lll, and will be trying it out in Montreal for the race.

Great insight into your kit and well explained👍

Great video! Learned a lot 👍

Wanna get better and more close up photos Idea: Buy 1 of each shirt of all the teams and find you way into a garage! Give it a try! 😂😂

Amazinnnggggg!!!!!

Super pro

for all motorsport photographers, is it better to use a lens filter such as a cpl filter or a lens hood?

I follow you on instagram now 👍🏻🎥🇨🇦

I wish I can photograph f1 one day, but I can barely afford a long lens haha, good to dream I guess

Hello Kym, love your videos, I'm a big fan of Formula 1, I've been lucky enough to have seen legend drives like, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Pedro Rodriguez, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, James Hunt etc. You mention that you use Canon gear, but in this video, at 2:36, I can see the meta data shows that you shot this one with a Nikon D5, did you switch from Nikon to Canon at one point in your career? I'm a Nikon shooter, but been forced to shoot with a Canon camera at work. Thanks.....Joaquin.

I'm confused...while you state you are a Canon shooter, the metadata in Lightroom that you used as an example (at 2:31) shows the image was captured with a Nikon D5.

How many shooting positions would you be at during a race? I guess I mean how do you plan your shooting day. At Singapore, for example, would you just hang about the pits and the Zone 1 area, or would you go down to Padang and Bay as well.

12 shots per second = 12 choices or 12 chances to get lucky 🤔

great Content :-)

Great setup just wondering which version of the 600mm Canon lens you have.

uh that pair shot with the faces out of focus but the watch of the guy perfectly in focus xD so awkward when that happens.

I just got around to buying the Canon 50mm f/1.4 and I LOVE it. I can only imagine using the f/1.2!

Awesome video, but did you talked about how set your camera in AF ? of course i mean while you shooting the F1 cars, what is your preferences to shoot in AF mode? thanks for any your tips.

2:34 talks about canon yet the lightrom exif says Nikon D5

Nice

I love Canon kit but I've found some of their later bodies produces horrible greens, e.g. grass colour is distorted, probably as the factory settings over nudged towards over saturating. What's your method in settings to ensure photos are a true reflection of actual realworld colours?

You should also try sony alpha s(iii)

Never forget the cap...

and here I thought I've got a lot of gear!🤔👍

After watching this video, i feel the need to go visit my cameragear supplier. 🤔

What’s your thoughts on mirrorless cameras? Would you consider changing ?

What's the backup should the unthinkable happens and your Apple laptop dies? Great video

you live in Perth? what is your thoughts about a street race in perth, instead of the snoozefest that is Melbourne?

The weight of the gear is a killer during the long walks trackside, do you select 2 bodies/lenses only or do you also carry more lenses in a backpack? (BlackRapid is essential indeed)

Was that burst at RAW? Sounded so good. My D5500 can only do 4fps at RAW. Buffers after about 5 frames.

5 compare to 12 shots meanwhile sony a1 we only have just 30

What head do you run the 500/600 F4's on when using the monopod? Just curious, I'm no pro but played around with ball and even a gimbal head at one point. Curious how you drive the monopod for those dynamic long shots

Leaning form u thanks

how do you deal with environmental heat distortion with the 500-600mm lens?

What are your techniques for minimizing heat distortion when shooting track-side? I shoot IndyCar and it's a problem I'm still working to get around. Given that F1 tracks really like to go big on the run off areas and use lots of pea gravel, it seems like a worst case scenario for you guys in F1. Cheers!

Do you think professional photographer's will start moving to mirrorless anytime soon? Specifically for sports and action photography.

I was curious if you thought a crop sensor camera would work for Auto racing photography...have a Fuji xt-4

I came for the gear and stay for bruce willis

I have a question about fixed aperture lenses: i have a sony a57 with the dying a mount. I have lenses going up all the way to 300mm, but recently i wanted to look into some telephoto lenses. Well there is the tamron and sigma lenses that are somewhat affordable, but sigma never released the one with the a mount so i would go with the tamron 150-600 f5-6.3 even though it didnt get the best reviews compared to the sigma. I could get it second hand for about 600bux. I was browsing the web and found a guy selling a sigma 50 to 500mm f1.4-6.3 for 340 bux and/or a tamron 200-400mm f5.6 for just 130 bucks... im tempted to get the cheap tamron but im kinda sceptical about it because of the fixed aperture... any suggestions? thing is, there are next to no A mount tele lenses out there, so it would be a steal, but idk if it makes sense thx for the help

How difficult do you think it would be on something like a single 24-70mm in a good location on the track?

Metadata showed NIKON D5?

Me as a Sony-user want to ask if you see more and more a9-bodies beside you? Do you consider switching to other brands or is that out of your concerns?