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| Car Of The Day: March 27, 2016; Penny '67 Alf Romeo Giulia TI | |
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| Swifty | Mar 27 2016, 12:15 PM Post #1 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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![]() Hoppy Easter, everyone! Today's car of the day is Penny's 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Alfa Romeo Giulia TI ![]() I assure everyone that this delightful little model cost me more than a penny. You might even say it cost me a pretty penny. But a pretty Penny is worth a pretty penny, don't you think?
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| Swifty | Mar 27 2016, 12:18 PM Post #2 |
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In case anyone's been wondering why I gave up posting Car Of The Day years ago, I present the above as justification. These pictures don't meet my expectations for quality. It isn't the photographer, it's the DSLR camera I overpaid for. It's a great camera, but it can't do what I specifically bought it to do (which is diecast photos, of course). The main reason I'm not active here as much these days is I just can't share high quality pictures like I used to. The problem with new cameras is their megapixel rating is way too high. The 3" diecast sweet spot is about 3.2 megapixel, as was the 2003 Fuji camera that provided years worth of great pictures here on the Garage. Supposedly a DSLR can be made to do the same thing, but even the camera shop that sold it to me has yet to produce pictures up to my standards for quality. If the experts can't do it, don't expect this technophobe to be able to do it. Contrast the above with:
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| Hobie-wan | Mar 27 2016, 04:15 PM Post #3 |
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Nice car choice in a pastel color. ![]() I'm certainly no expert, but I'll make a suggestion anyway. Go ahead and use a higher MP setting. Take the picture from about 1 1/2 to 2 feet away with macro mode, then crop and shrink the picture to size. Having the camera further away will help with the unintentional tilt-shift where you've got part of the car in focus, but closer and further bits being blurry. Taking a big picture and doing a quality resizing will tighten everything up. For example, I was probably 6-8 inches from this hood with my little old point and shoot, and it was only able to focus on the front of the hood, the back goes out of focus. The picture was about twice the size originally, but shrinking it made the parts that were in focus nice and sharp.
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| pjedsel | Mar 27 2016, 04:30 PM Post #4 |
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Muscle Car
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I have one of those parked downstairs in my basement. Being an "older" collector here I well remember these being sold in stores here in the US. Most of mine came from a department store toy dept. in Spokane, WA and others came from a hobby shop in Pasco, WA. The Penny models of Italian cars were nice additions to a collection of Matchbox, Husky and Budgie models.
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| cody6268 | Mar 27 2016, 04:36 PM Post #5 |
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I've got the Ferrari Dino Competizione, and at $15 for a chipper, I too paid a pretty Penny for mine. It's great that your Alfa is minty and even sitll has the box. I have been looking for an affordable police version of this casting since I got the Ferrari. |
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| pjedsel | Mar 27 2016, 10:17 PM Post #6 |
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You mean like this one, Cody?
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| JeepXJLover | Mar 27 2016, 10:31 PM Post #7 |
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I have been having the same photo issues. I use my phone for all my pictures. My digital camera is 11 years old and never took that great of photos. My old phone (Motorola Moto X) took excellent photos in my opinion with its 5 or something megapixels camera. My new phone (LG G4) with 16 megapixels has been nothing but a struggle to get decent photos from it. Wish I had not sold the Moto X and just kept it around to take diecast photos. |
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| 250 TR | Mar 28 2016, 01:57 AM Post #8 |
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Such a lovely car! There's a green one I see from time to time here and every time I do I end up down a rabbit hole of used Alfa classified ads and Ebay listings. Maybe one day. |
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| Swifty | Mar 28 2016, 02:21 AM Post #9 |
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I'd love to see some pics of it - this is a car I've never seen in person (and probably never will). |
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| 250 TR | Mar 28 2016, 03:28 AM Post #10 |
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I'm sure I've got a picture of it somewhere buried in my photobucket or computer, the trouble is finding it. Come to think of it, it's probably been over a year since I saw it last, but if I see it again I'll take fresh pictures. Here's one in the same shade of green that I saw a little while back at a car show. The one I used to see didn't have a fresh, shiny paint job like this one but looked to be a very well taken care of original paint job with just the right amount of wear, err patina to it.
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| Swifty | Mar 28 2016, 10:39 PM Post #11 |
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Very nice! I would love to go to a local car show and see something like this. Or better yet, a row of cars like this. Sadly, even the Import & Kit Nationals didn't have one of these.
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