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Was actually the biggest SC430 gathering in England to date, total 3. Apart from every Lexus dealers forecourt there's never been as many :)

Thats cool did not know that. Still wont make me buy an Apple product though :blink: I would imagine if you then ran your iphone hdr image through Abobe Lightroom or similiar would maybe enhance it even more. Could always do the test. Take a picture of a pretty girl and see how ugly you can make her :)

Its called HDR photography (High dynamic range imaging) With any SLR camera and even some compacts you can change the exposure the picture is taken at. Normally you or your camera would choose the correct exposure for the lighting in the shot. What you do is take multiply shots of the same picture at different exposure settings. What this does is a lower setting will bring out more detail in the foreground, a higher exposure more detail in the background (ie sky) and then normal shot which would be in the center of the picture. You then combine all the pictures through software to make one picture using the best aspects of them. I use photomatix to do that. So manually this would need to be done with a scene that did not have much movement in it like a landscape and with the camera on a tripod. Every shot needs to be the same. But latter cameras have a mode called 'bracketing' which will shoot x amount of shots with different exposures for you with one button hold. I use a Nikon D5000 which does 3 shots at upto +2, 0 and -2 exposure and I can pull it off by hand (no tripod) if I take a deep breath. This is one of the cheaper cameras that will do this and I bought it used a few weeks back for £300 on ebay. More expensive cameras can take upto 9 shots at different exposures. After you have your pictures I then use photomatix to merge them http://www.hdrsoft.com and then a final tweek through Adobe Lightroom. This is good site about HDR http://www.stuckincustoms.com and if you goto youtube and search HDR theres also lots of good tutorials.

lol I used the wifey filter, when I get home the missies says "let's see the pics" and then she says "ok, nothing to worry about then" :yes:

I was down at the Ace Cafe on Saturday with my SC430 unfortunatly no 300ZX's but a couple of 350Z. Took a few nice snaps thought I would share.

Just to say that forum is very quiet. Lots of good old posts that are helpful though.

lol my brother in law is a police inspector, he thought it was ok. So maybe I should rephrase that too "down to officers intelligence" :laugh:

Sorry was talking about driving to the tyre shop not the mot station. Probs best to just take the wheels there in another car lol

I need a couple of tyres before I can mot a car. Car has no mot, tax or insurance. Would be too much a PITA to just takes the wheels down. am I ok just phoning the shop to make an appointment, does that cover me by law or is it just at the police discretion if I got stopped.

Cheers, not done anying with her for over 6 months. Got the engine done, wide kit fitted and primer on. Kinda between homes myself atm. Still, no rush... Thanks Chris will drop you a PM

Think ive subbed twice now and not got any of those :no:

I will update you about that forum you have to pay by cheque then wait for snail and clearance first. So will be atleast a week before I can check it out.

Trouble with living in London is ive not be able to get above 2nd gear. Around town seems to have a serious petrol leak, if you squint you can see pound notes metamorphosing into vapours through the rear view mirror. Think it needs feeding more then my Z. :(

Yep this one has just had a new transfer box put in, with the amount of miles I cover should be good till im not :)