| ferpisano |
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| MDKG |
Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:59 am |
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79SuperVert wrote: Jeferson Milão wrote: Blue Baron wrote: There's some weird Photoshop action going on there. VW didn't make the car bigger.
original pic.
Not sure it's just perspective. Objects in the foreground cannot appear smaller than in the background due to perspective. It's always the other way around.
It is odd that the race number on the split takes up much more space on the door than the race numbers on the other VW's. Another oddity is that the split's rear wheels look much smaller than the front ones.
Everything seems to point to the split being a small replica, not a real VW, but if so it's an extremely good replica. Here's a link to a series of pictures from the same race in Zandvoort 1961 http://www.touringcarracing.net/Pages/p%201961%20NAV%20Sportwagenraces.html
Seems like a normal size Split bug in this picture (on the left here):
Crazy to race that vert though :shock: ! |
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| finster |
Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:39 am |
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^^^ but that cabrio and car 'number 8' are getting larger all the time! :wink:
the photo of the rear view of these cars is an interesting optical illusion - if you use dividers or a ruler on it - the split's wheels are larger and the door bottom to waist trim distance is larger than those in the background. maybe it's the smaller back window causing it... |
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| Jeferson Milão |
Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:02 pm |
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| 79SuperVert |
Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:37 pm |
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finster wrote: ^^^ but that cabrio and car 'number 8' are getting larger all the time! :wink:
the photo of the rear view of these cars is an interesting optical illusion - if you use dividers or a ruler on it - the split's wheels are larger and the door bottom to waist trim distance is larger than those in the background. maybe it's the smaller back window causing it...
Clearly in that other picture, in accelerating to pass the other two Beetles, the split was traveling at close to the speed of light, causing a warp in the space-time continuum and resulting in a reduction in its mass... :lol: |
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| Blue Baron |
Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:08 pm |
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| Give that man a banana! |
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| Jacks |
Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:18 am |
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| Papal authority with no head. How appropriate. :lol: |
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| Jeferson Milão |
Tue Sep 25, 2018 5:02 pm |
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| oldovaldriver |
Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:57 pm |
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79SuperVert wrote: finster wrote: ^^^ but that cabrio and car 'number 8' are getting larger all the time! :wink:
the photo of the rear view of these cars is an interesting optical illusion - if you use dividers or a ruler on it - the split's wheels are larger and the door bottom to waist trim distance is larger than those in the background. maybe it's the smaller back window causing it...
Clearly in that other picture, in accelerating to pass the other two Beetles, the split was traveling at close to the speed of light, causing a warp in the space-time continuum and resulting in a reduction in its mass... :lol:
It is actually an optical illusion from using an extremely long telephoto lens. The cars are much further from the camera than they appear. When objects are farther away, the effect of perspective is reduced--the image becomes effectively "flattened" like an isometric drawing. At a normal viewing distance, the car in the foreground would be much larger than those behind it. At this greater distance the car in the foreground is still actually larger--as the last poster noted--but less so than your eye expects. And so your brain interprets it as being smaller. |
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| aa390392 |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:07 am |
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Great answer, thanks for that....
Thomas |
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| Jeferson Milão |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:52 am |
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| KTPhil |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:01 pm |
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oldovaldriver wrote: 79SuperVert wrote: finster wrote: ^^^ but that cabrio and car 'number 8' are getting larger all the time! :wink:
the photo of the rear view of these cars is an interesting optical illusion - if you use dividers or a ruler on it - the split's wheels are larger and the door bottom to waist trim distance is larger than those in the background. maybe it's the smaller back window causing it...
Clearly in that other picture, in accelerating to pass the other two Beetles, the split was traveling at close to the speed of light, causing a warp in the space-time continuum and resulting in a reduction in its mass... :lol:
It is actually an optical illusion from using an extremely long telephoto lens. The cars are much further from the camera than they appear. When objects are farther away, the effect of perspective is reduced--the image becomes effectively "flattened" like an isometric drawing. At a normal viewing distance, the car in the foreground would be much larger than those behind it. At this greater distance the car in the foreground is still actually larger--as the last poster noted--but less so than your eye expects. And so your brain interprets it as being smaller.
Like this:
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| KTPhil |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:22 pm |
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Jeferson Milão wrote:
I like Pedro's "girl on a rack" photos better... |
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| KTPhil |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:24 pm |
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Jeferson Milão wrote:
She doesn't look it, but I would think she'd be uncomfortable given that Bug has bumper guards... |
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| Bob Loblaw |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:40 pm |
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KTPhil wrote: oldovaldriver wrote: 79SuperVert wrote: finster wrote: ^^^ but that cabrio and car 'number 8' are getting larger all the time! :wink:
the photo of the rear view of these cars is an interesting optical illusion - if you use dividers or a ruler on it - the split's wheels are larger and the door bottom to waist trim distance is larger than those in the background. maybe it's the smaller back window causing it...
Clearly in that other picture, in accelerating to pass the other two Beetles, the split was traveling at close to the speed of light, causing a warp in the space-time continuum and resulting in a reduction in its mass... :lol:
It is actually an optical illusion from using an extremely long telephoto lens. The cars are much further from the camera than they appear. When objects are farther away, the effect of perspective is reduced--the image becomes effectively "flattened" like an isometric drawing. At a normal viewing distance, the car in the foreground would be much larger than those behind it. At this greater distance the car in the foreground is still actually larger--as the last poster noted--but less so than your eye expects. And so your brain interprets it as being smaller.
Like this:
Wait a second....... |
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| Jeferson Milão |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:23 pm |
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| 79SuperVert |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:13 pm |
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oldovaldriver wrote: It is actually an optical illusion from using an extremely long telephoto lens. The cars are much further from the camera than they appear. When objects are farther away, the effect of perspective is reduced--the image becomes effectively "flattened" like an isometric drawing. At a normal viewing distance, the car in the foreground would be much larger than those behind it. At this greater distance the car in the foreground is still actually larger--as the last poster noted--but less so than your eye expects. And so your brain interprets it as being smaller.
I was still not sold, until I saw this photo from this thread:
The Beetle looks much smaller than it should relative to the bicycle rider in the distance. It should really look quite a bit larger. But because it is a telephoto shot, it fools the eye the way oldovaldriver says above. Very cool! :D |
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| Blue Baron |
Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:06 pm |
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| Jeferson Milão |
Thu Sep 27, 2018 4:08 pm |
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| KTPhil |
Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:00 pm |
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Jeferson Milão wrote:
Love that Citroën DS.
And that Bus has a window combo I haven't seen... wraparounds, plus what looks like a larger rearmost side windows. Stock? |
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