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TylerH860 · #1 04-01-2008, 12:53 AM

This new listing of theirs is stunning. Picture 24 is amazing. Where do they find these things?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6330&viewitem=&item=320233054121&_trksid=p3907.m29

I'm detailing my interior this weekend, then attempt to replicate some of the pictures.

JimmyL · #2 04-01-2008, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

This new listing of theirs is stunning. Picture 24 is amazing. Where do they find these things?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6330&viewitem=&item=320233054121&_trksid=p3907.m29

I'm detailing my interior this weekend, then attempt to replicate some of the pictures.

Where do they find these cars!?!? It is almost as clean as one of Shell's......

turbobenz · #3 04-01-2008, 01:31 AM

this is ridiculous. I dont think they find them this way, they somehow make them this way. HOW?

TylerH860 · #4 04-01-2008, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by turbobenz

this is ridiculous. I dont think they find them this way, they somehow make them this way. HOW?

Agreed. Perhaps they found a time machine that can only pull vintage Mercedes-Benzes from the past. The device was located after the Berlin wall fell, in one of Hitler's secret bunkers. Then, they fabricate an amazing ownership history.

Narcoleptic · #5 04-01-2008, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

This new listing of theirs is stunning. Picture 24 is amazing. Where do they find these things?

That picture, and especially the first picture are horrible. Perhaps the their photographer friend was on vacation, but they can't hold the camera level. The first picture was done with a fisheye lens and then corrected in software. Because they didn't know what they were doing, it ends up looking like the wheelbase has been shortened but the car length stays the same. That, and the car "sagging" in the middle.

According to the EXIF, the camera is a Canon 5D. With that and a fairly wide lens, I don't understand why they'd pick a fisheye and then correct it. Fisheyes are more of a specific purpose lens, not one you'd use for something like this unless you wanted to lead off with an eye-catching shot. But you'd leave the image alone.

Jordan G · #6 04-01-2008, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Narcoleptic

That picture, and especially the first picture are horrible. Perhaps the their photographer friend was on vacation, but they can't hold the camera level. The first picture was done with a fisheye lens and then corrected in software. Because they didn't know what they were doing, it ends up looking like the wheelbase has been shortened but the car length stays the same. That, and the car "sagging" in the middle.

According to the EXIF, the camera is a Canon 5D. With that and a fairly wide lens, I don't understand why they'd pick a fisheye and then correct it. Fisheyes are more of a specific purpose lens, not one you'd use for something like this unless you wanted to lead off with an eye-catching shot. But you'd leave the image alone.

I'll take your word for it.....but they look nice to my untrained eye

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They flip gassers too.....I dig that orange SL they sold. I just sent them my resume

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Chad300tdt · #7 04-01-2008, 09:47 AM

The 1980 300SD in Silver with Black leather looks mint. I was drooling over that one while it was on ebay.

#8 04-01-2008, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Narcoleptic

That picture, and especially the first picture are horrible. Perhaps the their photographer friend was on vacation, but they can't hold the camera level. The first picture was done with a fisheye lens and then corrected in software. Because they didn't know what they were doing, it ends up looking like the wheelbase has been shortened but the car length stays the same. That, and the car "sagging" in the middle.

According to the EXIF, the camera is a Canon 5D. With that and a fairly wide lens, I don't understand why they'd pick a fisheye and then correct it. Fisheyes are more of a specific purpose lens, not one you'd use for something like this unless you wanted to lead off with an eye-catching shot. But you'd leave the image alone.

I general their guy seems to know what he's doing, but he does like wide angle lenses much more than I do. About the widest lens I every use is a very flat 24, a little of that fisheye stuff goes a long way. Of course, I'm not a big fan of digital photos anyway.