Today, we’re at Kent University for a huge cross country event. over 2,000 kids, with roughly 250 running in 8 different races, it was going to be a challenge. If you can imagine trying to thread about 100 needles at the same time, that’s what it was like. It was quite a task.

So, how would we do this? Well, for one, it was a lot of hard work. However, Jeremy was with us today with his new camera. The 1D mk 4 ! And what a camera it was!

Fast focussing, super fast frames per second, what more could you want from a camera?

So, even though there were over 2,000 kids, we still managed to get it all done.

The biggest problem was that they were quite short races. The first set were under 1,000m, which meant that the kids were still very bunched up, even by the time they reached the finish line.

So suddenly, there would be 100 kids run past you within the space of about 10 seconds. How do you do it? Even working at 8 fps on the mark 3, that’s a maximum of 80 kids we could get!

Somehow though, we managed to do it! Just through perserverence and concentration, as well as running forwards and backwards with the camera still firmly held up to my eye.

Here’s another pic to see you off:

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