Show Us Your Motors!
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I have absolutely no issues with the specification level. It has everything I want (Bar the retrofittable Bluetooth) and nothing I'm not fussed about (bar the odd rear blind thing).
Why is everything I ask today getting weird answers?
First robbie talking about finance splits and now this. Just wondering if he kept it as it couldn't have been worth much to trade in and it was in really good condition.
Also what was the mileage like on both cars? New one and old one, out of interest.
Soldato
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After reading the last page I thought I was in the show us your hormones thread 
No, probably not. The older a BMW gets the less concerned people get about options (and lets be honest here, it's still a high spec car with Pro Nav) and the more bothered they are about whether they can buy some tat from Ebay and look proper wicked with it once they've bought it.
Caporegime
Lets have some pictures!
Normally I'd agree with this, but the length of time he plans to own it surely bails him out of this...
When I had my 330/Z4, I worked on the basis of depreciation costing me £250-£300 a month. Average that over Fox's 5 year ownership projections and he's faced with trying to shift a 7 year old E92 335i M Sport for £5k...
Wood or not, I don't see that being much of an issue...
Caporegime
Damn you fancy camera types
I want to do a proper one where the car is moving but that is difficult for a few reasons, namely I need someone else to drive (i.e. my sister who is insured as named driver) or someone else to sit at the back to click the shutter.
And the vibration of the engine was causing camera shake even with a tripod
and I think i took it too late in the day, was hoping for a shot with the dash light alone to light up enough of the interior, clearly didn't work as well as I hoped!It looked more like this in real life.
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Associate
I want to do a proper one where the car is moving but that is difficult for a few reasons, namely I need someone else to drive (i.e. my sister who is insured as named driver) or someone else to sit at the back to click the shutter.
And the vibration of the engine was causing camera shake even with a tripod
It looked more like this in real life.
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/65/img7027p.jpg [IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
Top Gear etc use massive brace bars running the width of the rear of the car, suctioned onto both side windows (or something similar anyways), with the tripod screw in the centre of the bar - thats the only way to get low shutter speed shots inside a car without motion blur on the car
Caporegime
I know it would and the only way is to mount the camera REALLY tight to the car so the vibrations matches that of the car. It's way too much for a home kit with single tripod.
Associate
Some el-cheapo suction cups can be bodged together to make something to hold a camera to the window, but no way would I hang a dSLR off one
Soldato
Some photos from last Fridays track day at Anglesey, great day out!
Neil.
Neil.
I want to do a proper one where the car is moving but that is difficult for a few reasons, namely I need someone else to drive (i.e. my sister who is insured as named driver) or someone else to sit at the back to click the shutter.
And the vibration of the engine was causing camera shake even with a tripod
It looked more like this in real life.[/URL]
Try harder dude. Not too hard. Tripod and a 30 second exposure. Obviously there is room for improvement but i did this a couple of years ago with a 30D. I wrapped the rear seatbelts around the tripod so it was secure and used a shutter release with a timer.
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Cracking car Fox, gorgeous inside and out. If I'm anywhere near in the position of being able to get myself something like that in 2 years time then I'd be over the moon! Alas, no picture as I'm still driving the 306 into the ground!
Soldato
Today the photos per post ratio took a nose dive .
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Caporegime
Try harder dude. Not too hard. Tripod and a 30 second exposure. Obviously there is room for improvement but i did this a couple of years ago with a 30D. I wrapped the rear seatbelts around the tripod so it was secure and used a shutter release with a timer.
I do remember this, it was hard to get the tripod in a nice and tight corner...the Yaris isn't that big ! lol
That's a fiesta!
So tiny too. It was a 10-22mm lens strapped onto the camera though. May have made things easier! Have you got a 16-17mm focal length lens that you can out on the 5Ds?