The Facebook group known as Orlando Roadsters holds monthly Monday Miata meets at the Ace Cafe Orlando. I’d heard about them for a while and was curious to see how they compared to the Tampa meets at Ricks on the River. And since I recently bought a new Miata, a 2020 MX-5 Club, I decided to attend. I’ll share more about the new car in an upcoming post, but since I now have a reliable roadster, I want to get out and shoot more.
There was some rain on the day, and according to people who regularly attend the event, that may have kept some people away. Despite that, attendance wasn’t much less than I’d usually see at the Tampa Bay Miatas meets at Ricks by the River and it had a great variety. There was a good mix of NA, NB, NC, and ND generation Miatas. There were even a couple BMW Z3s and a beautiful red Honda S2000. There was even an LS V8 swapped NA, a rotary swapped NA, and turbocharged NA and NB.
My other mission for this event was to test out the new Sony A7IV camera with a 24-70mm F/2.8 Sigma Art lens and get used to Sony’s user interface. I did not use a circular polarizer even though I normally would, because I just wanted to see what the new body and lens would do together. I’m very happy with the results so far. Not a whole lot of throw aways. The circular polarizer filter would have been useful on a couple of shots, but overall the resulting images are pretty satisfying and I’ll be sure to bring the polarizer next time.
That’s about it for this meet. Cars quickly filtered out at the end of the meet at 9 pm. I had a good time and I’ll be back some time this year.
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