Share your McLaren experience!

[McLaren F1 Guy]

replaced it with a pic I took - sorry it's so blurry, but from scanning it on a low quality scanner, shrinking it, and uploading it, it ended up being very low quality.
I posted above that I can get 9 pics I took scanned...today I sat in front of my friends brand new scanner trying to get it to work for an hour and only managed to get one scanned, the one in my sig now. On friday I'm gonna go back and try to figure the scanner out

[mini magic]

haha. much better . Do u have the shelton pix yet

[McLaren F1 Guy]

by friday I should have a shelton pic or two, but unfortunately, it'll probably be about as blurry as that one

[mini magic]

damn. send em to me and i'll do them

[McLaren F1 Guy]

Got all my good McLaren pics scanned!!! OK, here they are:

I have the above photo enlarged and hanging in my room

Yep, the one that used to be at Shelton

Shelton again

The car at Shelton again, I was exiting the dealership and noticed I only had 1 photo left so quickly snapped this one

Back to Park Lane for this one, sorry it's blurry, I think my hands were shaking because I was in absolute amazement of the car (I was even the first person in the dealership that day besides the lady who works there )

Head on of #65

The badging on #24

Whew, I'm exhausted, took me an hour to scan and get all of those on disk, then I had to come home and it took me another hour to upload them and add the finishing touches, such as sharpening, brightening, etc. I'd be amazed if these work and weren't all red X's, with my luck thats what they'll be

EDIT: OK, I viewed it after the original post and it was all X's, I made a few changes to the URLs and it should work this time *fingers crossed*

[Peloton25]

Yeah, uh... Houston, we have a problem...

BTW: You can upload them into mini magic's premium forum on SC.net - ask if you need some help.

EDIT: Ok, fixed for the most part. Were these scans of wallet sized photos though?? Even a 4x6 print should produce a better scan than that.

>8^)
ER

[McLaren F1 Guy]

I edited it, NOW it should work (although the pic of the badging on #24 isn't showing up for me)

[mini magic]

dude. 2 things: it shouldn't take an hour to scan all them. i can scan about 60 4x6 photos in an hour with mine and 2nd, there has to be an option to make the scans big. what scanner is it and what software are u using to scan them?

[McLaren F1 Guy]

Hows this: http://community.webshots.com/album/100050103qyyhFJ

[mini magic]

still tiny man

[Peloton25]

Are those your originals?? If so, you can save yourself some time when scanning by selecting a scan area that way it won't give you the whole page of white below the source material. That will definitely speed things up.

You can also lay out a bunch of pictures to scan at one time, but if the scanner uses image correction in its software you'd probably want to scan them individually so it compensates for each photo seperately. You should also try increasing the resolution you are scanning at. It looks to have been quite low if those are your originals. I'd try somethign like 300dpi on a photograph and see how it looks.

Did you take these with a disposable camera? That would explain the overall quality of the pictures. The ones from London look decent because there is a lot of light, but the ones inside Shelton are only good in the areas where your flash hit. The flash on those tiny throw-away cameras is not very good unfortunately. In a darker setting, you either need slower film (400-800 iso) which unfortunately produces grainier images, or the ability to slow the shutter speed of the camera.

Anyway - I hate to be a downer, but I was hoping for better photos of the car at Shelton. I've obviously got a ton of shots of the car from London so no disappointment there. One suggestion is that you might also try taking the negatives and the printed photos to a real camera store and ask them to see if they could reprocess them and improve on the prints for you. If they think they can improve the quality during their process, you should also ask them about scanning the final product for you. Most good camera stores have the ability to scan pictures or slides and give them back on a CD.

>8^)
ER

[mini magic]

i love the 1st shelton one with the green reflection. POST BIGGER

[will69camaro]

I've had quite a few McLaren encounters. I live in Midland and go by and see the silver F1 quite often. Sat in several times and have many photo's of them. One of me sitting in it as well .

William

[Peloton25]

Welcome aboard Will - sounds like you have had some great experiences with that car. There really aren't too many photographs of it floating around, so feel free to share any that you have. Also, if you've ridden in the car I'd be interested in hearing about that experience as well.

>8^)
ER

[will69camaro]

Havn't ridden in it yet it's still being fixed, they're fixing the tranny. I'm goign to ride in his murcielago and hopefully his new enzo over thanksgiving. When i get back i'll have more pics (hopefully enzo pics) and ride experiences.

William