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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:59 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

79SuperVert wrote:
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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):
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:39 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

^^^ 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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 2:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 4:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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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...


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... Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:18 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

Papal authority with no head. How appropriate. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

79SuperVert wrote:
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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...


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... Laughing


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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:07 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

Great answer, thanks for that....
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:52 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

oldovaldriver wrote:
79SuperVert wrote:
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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...


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... Laughing


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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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I like Pedro's "girl on a rack" photos better...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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She doesn't look it, but I would think she'd be uncomfortable given that Bug has bumper guards...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

KTPhil wrote:
oldovaldriver wrote:
79SuperVert wrote:
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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...


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... Laughing


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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Wait a second.......
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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:

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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! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote

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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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