Quote from Becky Rose :

I dont want to drive one you silly boy, that isn't the point

So if you had the money and bought one, it would just sit in your living room being polished and washed by hot wet ladies in bikini?


Hmm...I like your style. But I'd still buy a Ferrari and drive it.

Last edited by Blackout, Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:14.

Quote from Dmt :

Ahh mates, lets just celebrate our half year of patch delay and dont argue. :elefant:

Go troll somewhere else, this thread is not about LFS progress it's about the online experience.



I guess I need to join the good old times club. I've always though that you got old (and useless for anything because old people are smelly and drool) when you said the words "it was better in the old days" and now I've fallen in to my own trap.

MRT and SO, those were the days. Saw if any good racers where on and joined them. If you want to have a good race nowdays, it needs to be at least semi-organised event or league. Had a blast in LX6 last night on our Thursday LX evening, the set was shite but I had fun and plenty of great battles. Proper fair racing.

It's still better what it was in the CTRA era, as Tristan put it, you had to drive with idiots for ages to just drive with your mates. Restricting your cars when you've been playing the game for years just doesn't serve a purpose, and I hope that CTRA will never come back in that form ever again.

The breakaway, if it happens, does have a lot of potential being awesome. They could bring back V12 engines and have several races in the same country (think Italy and tifoso) or have anything they like. I'm sure tracks can be arranged easily if you don't demand the 276 billions per race like Bernie and if you can bring a spectacle.

I don't care about the name, as said, the history has been made by the teams and drivers not FIA. Having 3 F1 World Champions on the grid is not bad for promotion though.

Quote from SamH :

Yesterday was a good day for that, actually! I decided to drive the "Buttertubs Pass", which Top Gear fans will know is one of Clarkson's favourite roads in all the world! (see attached image)

Unfortunately, in a 2.0L Turbo Diesel estate, it's not so much fun as it is scary as shit! The car's weird.. it gets an oscillation going in the suspension and the front wheels spend way too much time in the air!

No no no, you did it all wrong. It's his favorite road...




...







... in the world.

Sweet views, all I got is trees and lakes and trees between lakes. Never been on such open plain or hill you got there.

Lakes and trees.

Trees and lake.

Last edited by Blackout, Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:19.

Lucky Pirates UF1 skins.

Good job Bob. Didn't have time to test your mod properly before today, and I got to say it's quite awesome. With the 28% restriction on Kyoto GP long with h-gate it's such a riot. Haven't had such a smile on my face while driving LFS in ages.

My set was mostly rubbish, but great fun car.

Yeah, it has some blur, but 1/160 is really short exposure. I still like the shot though.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Thanks Always wondered what that is

Yeah, manuals are good to read sometimes. You can learn a lot.

This article will get you started on panning.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Come on, comment on my pics..

Well, I kinda like the flying pictures. You could try playing around with the shutter priority mode (Tv in Canons) to have more motion and blur to the pictures.

Quote from sinbad :

Like I said before though, that doesn't bother me at all. It's like saying the World Cup's only great when Brazil are playing well. Most of the time they do, so it doesn't matter

But Rossi won't be there forever.

Nokia 6500 classic. Slim and very solid phone. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

World's greatest daddy.

Yes, VR is brilliant (just realised how good few hours ago) it's usually the subject that doesn't keep still with longer shutter times though.

edit. Also 1/15 shot

Last edited by Blackout, Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:57.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The AA batteries are really a plus to me (and I don't think I'm alone in this opinion) because it means you're never far from backup if something happens to your main set. If you're on vacation and you misplace/break your proprietary LiIon battery you're basically screwed. If you have a camera that takes AAs you're never far from Lithiums, rechargeable NiMHs, or (god forbid) alkalines. Just get a set of Sanyo Eneloops and you're good to go.

Of course, AAs do add weight to a camera, which makes the K-m/K2000 kind of heavy for its petite size. Personally I like a heavier camera (better balance w/ heavy glass), so that ain't no thang for me.

As for the bad CA... I assume you mean with the kit (18-55mm DA L)? I've never shot with that lens myself, but I think it's optically identical to my 18-55mm DA II, which I've never particularly had issues with.

Well I just don't like AA-batteries. Don't have really anything that runs on them or a recharger. I did consider the upsides of AA power, but with a set of batteries and recharger it would have been quite the same. But I can't complain, I can take at least 1400 photos with one charge (one bar left).

As for the CA, I'm not sure if it was the lens or just bad jpg they complained on dpreview but you could see it on the pictures.

Ah, how on earth I end up explaining why I didn't buy a Pentax, it's not like it's a crime is it.

Now go label and name your precious old lenses you...you.

<- just to get away with anything

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

No wai!

But yeah, Pentax is undoubtedly the best budget choice due to the extensive range of backward-compatible (and excellent) glass that can be had dirt cheap on the used market. If you're planning on investing megabuxxx on new AF lenses, Canon or Nikon would be a better choice.

The Pentax k-m is definitely the cheapest in the low-end to buy. Personally it was a tough call between that and D60. But the Pentax using AA-batteries and the bad CA in jpg shooting lead me to buy the Nikon. The whatever Canon offers for around same price was just too much for me and felt overpriced compared to the D60.

Looking back it would have been wiser to not buy the kit (although the 18-55 VR is really nice) and take a body with the 18-135.

Anyway, it's really much down to personal choice and what you like, and what you intend to shoot. Which of course is hard to know before you have your first camera I guess.

edit. heh, my responses take time

Oh noes, not these Polish tracks again.

Plus it's manual focus.

I'd suggest that you use your legs and just get closer.

Enough with this feel good nonsense!
Here is a loud Ford Escort to balance things out a bit.

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Quote from Blas89 :

Sunrise at 3am?? what the hell... how can you sleep?

Tomorrow morning the sun rises (on this height I live), at 3.19 (sets 22.47) and technically there is no night. At 19th (Midsummer) of this month the sun gets up at the most earliest at 3.14 and after that days get shorter and shorter when it gets up later every day. Further up north the sun just stays up and doesn't set.

Quote from SamH :

A few Ebayers are shipping from the US at the moment. There's no embargoes or anything to prevent them, AFAIK. New York has always been the main focus of photography equipment in the US, for some reason I've no real idea why. Start off at Adorama (http://www.adorama.com/) and work out from there, I reckon.

Thanks, looks promising, especially the refurbished lenses are tempting...must resist.

Quote from MattxMosh :

KEH.Com will,they have a sweet selection of used and like new stuff. Though they won't (because of Canon and Nikon) Ship new Canon or Nikon stuff.

Interesting stuff too, thanks.

I'm sure it will be ace. If I had been smarter I had bought something like that with a body and not the kit. How much did that thing set you back then?

Talking of which. Now when the US dollar is rightfully in the ditch again, is there any place that would ship Nikon lenses from US to Europe? Looking at the amazon list prices on the Nikon 55-200 VR AF-S DX lens, you'd save about 150 euros, and that's a lot in my books. But the problem is they don't ship that outside US. Is there some sort of areal distribution monopoly with camera gear, or does anyone know a place?

Last edited by Blackout, Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:32.

Quote from spankmeyer :

All you need is some Don-esque PP!

Hmm..yes, they do look a lot better and sexier. Although the Peugeot one feels a bit wrong because I think the gravel was gray not brown, but who would know of course, even I'm not sure how it was.

Sorry for the huge post. Here is some rubbish from about 1100 shots in which about 1/4 were usable. Pictures taken yesterday in the freezing Finnish summer.

Dirty dirty wheel.

Man screwing a turbo.

Paint on headlights, sounds promising...

Pattern tires?


Rallycross of course!

Looking good... but then

wheel trouble.



Minor damage.

Slippery beetle.

Triple drift!

Get in the bag. Sure you will look like an idiot, but at least your gear doesn't get wet.

Or if you got a long lens hood, stick the plastic bag on it with some water from the sky. Worked for me.

I don't get it. If the game is so ready they could release it, why didn't they show any real footage on the biggest game expo of the year?

Gran Turismo: Forever I tell you.

Until proven otherwise.

Quote from sokke :

Within the team is where the competitions gets the fiercest.:fence3d: There are no such thing as shared sets in this series.

No, it's just that nobody is shearing them with you.