OK, I have somthing to share... With some careful work I've been able to make the most of the latest mazda promo video.

Enjoy... (And tell me what you think.. pulling quality images from the video wasn't ideal).

 

And some more, for good measure:-

 

Thanks for capturing those still photos for us man. The car looks better looking everytime I look at it.

For seeing the pictures of the red one from sevenstock and the grey one near Mazda headquaters, I was starting to think the car was a little too tall, long, and narrow. The pictures from the video make the car look more hunkered down (lower and more aggressive) and I like it.

 

look what i found in blueadepts stills!

 

Yeah.. I noticed that... it's on the sevenstock "MPS" T-Shirt too!

 

Where's the sequence-stills of the drift? :D

 

Sorry man... it's just too low res... I can try, but it's gonna look like a little red blob!

 

i think i'll leave the outlining trick to grimmy! that was a pain to do as i've only got MS photo editor and MS paint to work with. i brought the pic into photo editor to change the bright and contrast to make the shape stand out better, then i had to save those changes. then i had to bring the pic into paint to draw my circle and stuff and save it as a bmp, then open it again in photo editor and save it again as a jpeg to make it small enough to upload.
i hope you haven't had to go thru that every time grimace!

 

Zoom, is that because you don't want to pay for photoshop or whatever... if so I have an alternative...

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/screenshots.html

This software is awesome and it's FREE... but more importantly it's OPEN.

For the main site, look at http://www.gimp.org, but remember that you need to make sure you get the Windows version if you're gonna use that... so to to the longer link if you're unsure.

 

That's been there

 

LOL, you think thats bad, all I've got is MS Paint. You've got twice the programs as I do for picture editing!

 

Thanks for the pics. Always great to see new pics of the rx-8.

 

 

You know, as much as I like the thought of that car in dark blue, that red just looks better and better every time I see it. It's not too overwhelmingly bright like a candy-apple, but it is very stylish, eye-catching, and downright pretty.

 

no it is because i am at work and that is all i have here. i try to do all my posting from here because i'm on a dsl line, my 56k at home is just to slow:D

 

hey toadman is that a sevenstock pic?

 

Ahh.. Now I see...

You should still try the Gimp... it's pretty mean!

 

It appears so. Stephen Chiang from rotarynews took the shot, along with some incredibly good additional photography.

 

isn't gimp a linux only program?!? i remember using that in high school, but we were using the linux op system.

anyways... great job grabbing the stills.... im sure it was super hard.

 

I posted the link to "WinGIMP" earlier in this thread... statically linked to the Win32 port of GTK+... I'm told it's just like the real version!

It was pretty time consuming getting them to come out so they didn't look like a chess board, a fast moving mpeg movie isn't ideal for that, but I was motivated. Anyway, what else am I gonna do at 2am LOL. I must have played the video a hundred times to get the framing right on them all...

I just wish the power slide was more close up, I could have done a lovely one of that... Did anyone notice the exhaust in the overhead view of the power slide... cool, all we need now is flames.

 

Hey, yeah - thanks for all of these pics!

That would sure fullfill my driving the Batmobile fantasy ...

The wait to drive one (and own one) is killing me!

 

Apparently, in the FD, due to the unburned hydrocarbons you can easily get flames on overrun if you take off the CAT's.... which is legal here on early ones.

Here's an arguement winner for you... "My car's got flames, yours hasn't"...

 

Wow! Thanks, that's something I can plan on using. (The G35 coupe can't make that claim ... )

 

So simple a statement, yet so utterly unanswerable... LOL.

 

Thanks for the hard work on the stills. That red is very good looking. Perhaps I'll have to change my user name.