1971 Road America Trans Am Color Photographs

[SMKZ28]

I just ran across this collection of color photographs taken by Richard A. Reeves at the Trans Am races at Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on July 17, 1971.  The pictures were posted on Flickr.  Click on the following link to see the 30 photographs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageracepics70/sets/72157632790539418  Sorry if this is a re-post.  I don't recall seeing them before.

The first picture in the second row is backwards.  That is the run up to the Corvette bridge after turn five.  The first three are correct.

[ss jim]

Thanks for the link. Excellent!
Jim

[Jon Mello]

Those are some really nice shots. Thanks for posting the link, Scott.


Courtesy of Robert Barg

[Trans Åm]

Holy grail! He got a gorgeous shot of the Gray Ghost, and the shot of the Javelin looks like it was taken YESTERDAY!:

Photos by Richard Reeves:

[Jon Mello]

Holy grail! He got a gorgeous shot of the Gray Ghost, and the shot of the Javelin looks like it was taken YESTERDAY!:

I agree. He was using a very nice camera and lens combination. The images are much higher in quality than you typically see for back then.

[69Z28-RS]

If the photos were from 1971, he was NOT using a digital camera..       so digitizing from film, the scanner and software used to convert the film negative or positive to digital format is the key to the quality of the digital images...  (For very high resolution on the film, he was likely using a 2-1/4x2-1/4 - ie. 70 mm film format, but even a 35 mm film will yield very nice digital images if a high quality digitizer and software are used).