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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #280 on: January 17, 2011, 06:37:48 am »

Mike, wonderful set!

On a side note, looks like your sensor is in dire need of industrial-strength hosing down (Rambo in the police station, in the First Blood movie, comes to mind ;))

But back to cars… can I play?


Slobodan -.

Porsche 1600

Do I see hand-held? Even your companion is shielding her eyes from the very idea!

When I get around to it, I must pack away a small tripod and hide it in the car. Then I shall be able to use smaller stops and if I find a river with rocks or a friendly beach with some waves... wow! Oh, probably need a neutral density filter or two as well.

I think I have found myself a new project. No, not a Porsche, a Ford. I can afford a Ford; as they used to say, there's a Ford in Your Future. There were - last count - six in my past and present, three of them black, so Henry wasn't that far off.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #281 on: January 17, 2011, 06:42:53 am »

Looked at from a modern perspective, the old rusty one in your batch (Ford?) shows something to which new ones can't aspire. That many years into the future, today's new ones will have vanished into red dust.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #282 on: January 17, 2011, 09:13:50 am »

Since you seem to like small Fords Rob, how about this old "Ford Popular" (It's actually UK built)







The first shot was with a 10 mm, so I had to clone out my feet  :-[ 

Pretty neat car, but I think yours looks more comfortable
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #283 on: January 17, 2011, 11:47:05 am »

Since you seem to like small Fords Rob, how about this old "Ford Popular" (It's actually UK built)

The first shot was with a 10 mm, so I had to clone out my feet  :-[ 

Pretty neat car, but I think yours looks more comfortable


Hi pegelli, not so much a matter of liking them small, as feeling obliged to stretch the pennies as far as they will go. Like with many folks of a delicate age, there's this guilt thing about consuming the kids' inheritance... However, living in Spain there is the added problem of narrow streets - many one-ways in places for that reason - and I found my very first Fiesta here difficult enough to take round several junctions in our local small town. In the event, I gave up very early on and now park on the outskirts and walk. Probably better for me, but that again is beset with problems: the kerbs are far too high, and many are scratched from the bumpers and towbars of the cars they have effed. But there is little choice. In fact, I'd contemplated the Sport version of this Fiesta but it comes with lowered suspension and low profile tyres, both of which are hopeless here. You really can't win: park parallel to the kerb and you get bumped fore and aft; go nose in into those sorts of slots that require that and the kerbs get you. I used to have my wife guide the nose in to the edge of the kerb - you simply have no idea where modern cars start or finish. Even the supermarket underground parking is dodgy: they use a projecting steel bar to protect their wall...

In fact, on the matter of tyres, the Escort had 50s, and one night we hit a puddle that was in the road and received a hell of a bump. The next day I had a look in daylight and the alloys looked fine as did the tyres. A couple of weeks later we were driving through France en route to Scotland and pulled in at a motorway rest stop to stretch our legs. As we sat on a bench, I looked across at the car and thought something looked odd. I got up and had a look: both the tyres on the starboard side had grown eggs on the sidewalls. Clearly, the high French motorway speeds (130kph) were enough to show up the hidden damage from the bump of the weeks before. Guess that stop saved our lives. This current car also has 50s, but that's not as bad as the rubber bands on the Sport.

On the matter of Ford Populars: the very first proper car I had was a '59 Popular - it was the one that looked 'American' and not like the one in your shot; a baby Consul, then. 1172cc side-valve and three gears with no synchromesh on first. I remember it well. Solid steel, too.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #284 on: January 17, 2011, 12:15:44 pm »

Some spiffy models shown so far..guess I can't say the same of my contribution.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #285 on: January 17, 2011, 12:36:05 pm »

Hi pegelli, not so much a matter of liking them small, as feeling obliged to stretch the pennies as far as they will go.

Rob, Agree, that's why I drive a 9 yr old Rover with 260 K on the counter and still going. Hope I'm not halfway yet, but not sure.

BTW first driving lesson went better than expected. At some point in time I smelled the clutch but that's as bad as it got. Might also need a new starter if it continues like this, but not from abuse but more from overuse  :o.

@Riaan van Wijck, great shot processed to get just the right mood in my mind.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #286 on: January 17, 2011, 01:52:47 pm »

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On a side note, looks like your sensor is in dire need of industrial-strength hosing down

The dust wasn't on the sensor, but on the car.  I tell ya, the nerve of some people - leaving a dirty car in a parking lot and waiting for some poor unsuspecting photographer to come by...

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #287 on: January 17, 2011, 03:36:22 pm »

Some spiffy models shown so far..guess I can't say the same of my contribution.



Beautiful picture, Riaan; so much atmosphere and on so many levels.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #288 on: January 18, 2011, 12:13:42 pm »

Probably my favourite car ever: the Auburn Speedster (this one 1935)













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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #289 on: January 18, 2011, 03:37:31 pm »

That is incredibly gorgeous, Mike.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #290 on: January 18, 2011, 05:48:59 pm »

Yeah... if only it was mine!

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #291 on: January 19, 2011, 05:34:47 am »

And damn nice pictures of it too!

Reminds me vaguely of the Excalibur, another wet dream based on a real one.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #292 on: January 19, 2011, 03:45:09 pm »

Tempted Fates.

Another good reason for not buying boats unless you are prepared to obey the natural laws; considering they name mountains after them, observe them at all times.

Another good reason for not buying film again, too.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #293 on: January 20, 2011, 12:44:50 am »

Plenty of them in Australia at the moment. I would hate to see what the bottom of the Brisbane River looks like.

The weather on the South Coast has been poetry ordinary but at least it's warm.

Actually it's been so boring at the moment that I've been putting comments in the PC versus Mac thread. Now there is a definite waste of energy.

I'm in Eden at the moment, it's an ex whaling town. They occasionally get visited by pods of killer whales though it would be well against the odds to see them.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #294 on: January 21, 2011, 11:27:20 am »

This of the new baby was shot two evenings ago - today there is snow up on the hills behind Pollensa (about 8k to the left of the mountains in the shot) and the car is covered with salt in the air from the sea, which is about 1k away from the car park, behind a low hill. Not even worth cleaning it off - the wind is blowing with no intention of stopping any time soon. Bugger.

;-(

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #295 on: January 21, 2011, 03:40:56 pm »

This is a 100% crop from a file shot just after the one of the car, above. No sharpening done.

I can't see the same defect on the car shot, so I'm wondering how I got this circular thing on the shot here. There was no lens change between shots; the lenses are only changed in the office with no air currents at play. The defect is plainly visible at around postcard size, so it should, presumably, still be visible on the car shot above in the same area, which is in the sky, about a fifth of the way in from the right and close to the top.

I've posted the image over on the Digital Image Processing section too, but as we don't all read all the sections, maybe somebody here can pick up on this and tell me if it is sensor dirt; I'd have thought that would appear as crisp, like dust on a negative.

Any help appreciated.

Rob C
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #296 on: January 21, 2011, 06:00:51 pm »

This is a 100% crop from a file shot just after the one of the car, above. No sharpening done.

I can't see the same defect on the car shot, so I'm wondering how I got this circular thing on the shot here. There was no lens change between shots; the lenses are only changed in the office with no air currents at play. The defect is plainly visible at around postcard size, so it should, presumably, still be visible on the car shot above in the same area, which is in the sky, about a fifth of the way in from the right and close to the top.

I've posted the image over on the Digital Image Processing section too, but as we don't all read all the sections, maybe somebody here can pick up on this and tell me if it is sensor dirt; I'd have thought that would appear as crisp, like dust on a negative.

It's dust on the sensor. It appears as a fuzzy dot or blob on a digital sensor, not like dirt on film, where it would be distinctly outlined. Even though you didn't change lenses between this and the previous shot where no dust was visible, it's quite possible that the dust was already inside your camera body and some vibration or jostling of the camera caused it to migrate to the sensor. I've seen it happen before.
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #297 on: January 21, 2011, 08:43:08 pm »

This is a 100% crop from a file shot just after the one of the car, above. No sharpening done.

I can't see the same defect on the car shot, so I'm wondering how I got this circular thing on the shot here. There was no lens change between shots; the lenses are only changed in the office with no air currents at play. The defect is plainly visible at around postcard size, so it should, presumably, still be visible on the car shot above in the same area, which is in the sky, about a fifth of the way in from the right and close to the top.

I've posted the image over on the Digital Image Processing section too, but as we don't all read all the sections, maybe somebody here can pick up on this and tell me if it is sensor dirt; I'd have thought that would appear as crisp, like dust on a negative.

Any help appreciated.

Rob C

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #298 on: January 22, 2011, 12:52:58 am »

Hard to say, but my bet is on either Alpha Centaurians or Martians.

Haha..if you have these chaps flying around on your sensor, a fumigation, rather than a sensor clean might be required  :)   

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #299 on: January 22, 2011, 03:45:27 am »

It's dust on the sensor. It appears as a fuzzy dot or blob on a digital sensor, not like dirt on film, where it would be distinctly outlined.

The reason it's not sharply outlined is that it's not really laying on the sensor itself, but on the anti-alias filter which is a small distance from the sensor itself. So the dust is some distance from the sharp plane and therefore is shown "out of focus".

Dust was a curse in the film days, but it still is in the digital days as well.
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