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[Le Man]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Well, everyone can have a poster now.

Here's my completed effort - in addition to simply stitching the pages together as was the original plan, I also spent quite a bit of time removing some of the printing artifacts which were all over the pages, and I cleaned up some of the areas where the ink had been slightly worn away from the pages rubbing together. I consider it 'photo sanitization'.

In the end, well, I think it looks fantastic!!

Click on this pic for a 1630x985 version.



Don't fret about that 'large' size though, because my working copy was ultra-high resolution just like Le Man's original scans. Final version is 2x the size of what is offered above, at 3260x1970. At 72dpi if you printed it, you'd have something 45"x27" - or double the dpi and it still prints at 22.5"x13.5".

I didn't want my Photobucket account getting dinged everytime someone grabs the 'original', so you have to get it here.

Enjoy!

>8^)
ER

Very nice

I have several two page articles/adds that you may like to stich together and clean up . But for now, if you have time I would really appreciate your magic on this poster size pic of #08R



I may have enlarged this pic a little too much , it needs a lot of cleaning up. As the pic was only small, in the book that I scanned it from. BMW Classic have this similar poster for sale on their site, but I,m not too keen on the angle.(although I will probably still buy this image as well )



Many thanks in advance.

[Peloton25]

The first image is what I call 'over-scanned' and will not be workable. You're actually seeing the pixelation from the magazine's printer. I think most magazines are printed at under 150dpi, so if you scan it any higher than that those will be your results.

You'd actually get a better source scanning it at a lower resolution, and then trying to blow it up and do some sharpening of that image if you want a larger size.

Another thing I've done with decent results in the past is photograph the image on the page with a digital camera in macro mode. Depending on the resolution your camera shoots at, you can still end up getting the printer pixelation as a result though.

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ER

[Le Man]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

The first image is what I call 'over-scanned' and will not be workable. You're actually seeing the pixelation from the magazine's printer. I think most magazines are printed at under 150dpi, so if you scan it any higher than that those will be your results.

You'd actually get a better source scanning it at a lower resolution, and then trying to blow it up and do some sharpening of that image if you want a larger size.

Another thing I've done with decent results in the past is photograph the image on the page with a digital camera in macro mode. Depending on the resolution your camera shoots at, you can still end up getting the printer pixelation as a result though.

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ER

Many thanks for the advice, I will give it a try.

[Peloton25]

Couldn't think of a better place to stick this photo. Curious who will be the first to tell us exactly which date the image was taken on?



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ER

[mini magic]

LeMans qualifying? Mulsanne Straight?

[Peloton25]

Dates usually have numbers in them.

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ER

[mini magic]

April 28th 1996

[Peloton25]

Yay!!!

The red car leading is GTR #10R for those unaware, and 1996 LeMans Pre-Qualifying was the only time it ever took to the track in any kind of competitive nature. There are three other shots of it at LeMans, or perhaps four if you count the one of it coming off the transporter, so seeing a pic of it at speed like that one above is pretty cool, I think.

And as a reward for your brilliance Chris, here's the remainder of the pics that I found in a similar location. These weren't taken the same date though, but about 10 months earlier of course.





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ER

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Couldn't think of a better place to stick this photo. Curious who will be the first to tell us exactly which date the image was taken on?



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ER

Not often seen #10R on the action!
And Thank you very much #01R and J.J images!
Just one wierd thing, I can' save these, HTML document.
Any trick to save them at JPEG?

[Peloton25]

Sounds like an issue on your end Sami - I've hosted them via Photobucket exactly the same way I share all my other images, and I am able to right-click and save as .JPG just fine on my end.

Maybe try rebooting your PC?

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ER

[Sami Aaltonen]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Sounds like an issue on your end Sami - I've hosted them via Photobucket exactly the same way I share all my other images, and I am able to right-click and save as .JPG just fine on my end.

Maybe try rebooting your PC?

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ER

OK, maybe that would help.
Strange! Well thanks for tip!
Got them working now.

[Le Man]

Not really an article but I thought I,d put these in here.

Check these links for some ace pics from the Modena track days.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photos-...th/3829872040/

http://www.cm-arte.com/en/galerie (Go to Modena trackdays 2009)

Enjoy!!

[Sami Aaltonen]

GULF is #12R but what is number #10, #21R or...?

[Peloton25]

#21R sir.

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ER