blu3hamm3r: Wow... so many great looking hauls plus models too. I'm drooling all over - - - - -

I think it's this anime characters a little out of proportion body parts or otherwise, they look good

Hehe... finally... Nice. Do take more shots on it. Btw, do use Photobucket for ease of pic posting too

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Added on November 24, 2011, 10:56 am Wow that looks kinda wicked R8.

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myke: I'm new to it so I dun have a problem for now. For now, I'm trying to make a diorama to appreciate my available diecast

Anything below 1:18, I cannot appreciate the car details enough. Atm, space is not a problem since I have only about 4-6 diecasts of various sizes.

I think I'm a bit more fussy with details since I'm a graphics guy. But then again, maybe I'm not ready to go to the lower scale for diecast as opposed to miniature figurines

blu3hamm3r: Diecast is the latest hobby for me. Prior to this and still am collecting are soem of the anime characters made by Revoltech. Was into plastic hobby cars 10 years ago but got lazy and not worth investing further(knowing I botch the cars up), so I look to diecast

Wah! That puts me at the bottom of the food chain

Cannot lor... money tree so bare already

Anyway, I wonder any diecast company ever makes aftermarket or tuners diecast of the original car. An example like the Merc SLS AMG modified by Brabus?



This post has been edited by aquilaTE: Nov 25 2011, 11:37 AM

Just saw that too... planning to get that...

Wah! You so fast, Sauron. I'll probably do it next week the earliest.

Sorry, type too fast and mistook the wrong name... hehe... me must be getting old

blu3hamm3r: Since you mentioned camera lens, do you use any macro lens for taking close up of the diecast? I noticed your shots are pretty sharp.

Yeah... the 17-55 f2.8 is a good lens. I have a kit lens at 18-105 and my recent discast diorama shots I shot at F32 4secs 70mm ISO400 and a tripod too. I still find it not sharp enuff.

Well, so far I have not been able to take sharp and perfect shots. I want to get it to the level the last time(I dunno who post)this guy shot the CCX very nice and crisp. The objective is to make it look like as if it's a real car in a real garage

Wow, you room looks way better than my college/uni days. Anyway, since I have a house, I've dedicated one room for those things

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Added on November 25, 2011, 3:48 pmOkies. Will give it a try. I always thought the higher the F numbers, the sharper the image will get. Apart from heating up our sensor, will the image be affect from a hot sensor?

Yup, that's the one!

This post has been edited by aquilaTE: Nov 25 2011, 03:49 PM

Tried PNS many years back and it failed me epically

I always tot the rule of thumb was the opposite extreme will yield the best results. Anyway, I dun have proper lighting since I dun use a light box and I take straight out of the display cabinet. Anyway, will test later when got time again.

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Added on November 25, 2011, 4:32 pmTrue... that's why I have a room dedicated for such things and not in the living room. My wifey dun approve to those things in the masterbedroom eventhough that is the safest place

The DSLR sensor has a failsafe at 5mins shutdown on the D90 since that function is made for video mode so I doubt it gets damage easily. I dont think colour temp is something to do with the temperature of the sensor. It's the colour ranges is what you called colour temp. But I'm not sure whether if different heat ranges on the sensor gives a different result to the sharpness of the photo.

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Yeah, the one thing that ticks me off about pns is the noise control. I went thru two pns. They served me well till my demand got bigger... muahahaha...

I still needed the tripod to shoot even with dslr because of hand shake. Anyway, bridge cameras and pns have came a far way. Those two pns were like 4yrs and 6 yrs ago

I think you're still young. You'll own your own place one day.

Well, I dun have to worry much with color temps since I shoot mainly in RAW. I'm just not there yet with photo sharpness... I want to trick people especially friends that they cannot tell the different between a real car and a diecast... so far, tricked only once with a crop shots

Ok. Noted on that. Cheers.

Btw, tiny speckles not those from noise?

Yeah... been there, done that... all the best

Used to have a decent flash till it got fried.

Anyway, I'm planning to build a diorama that comes with lights as well so I can be like this dude here...

http://nicadraus-lambo.blogspot.com/2009/0...-118-scale.html

Of course, mine wouldn't be so bright like his since he's a commercial workshop and mine will be a private garage which will be so-so lit-ed.