What's wrong with Australian Hondas?

**awesker** · 17th December 2006, 17:02

Ok, so I found some pictures of a cbr 600 on some honda.com.au website and on closer inspection at the pictures, (both of them on there) they had no RPM, and this is my question to you.. why?

Are they both photochopped? looks pretty real to me.. unless the bike was on a trailer or something.. does anyone have any ideas? How these pictures work is the left is the origional size and next to it a closer view (for the older salts :P) I wonder how many honda jokes will come up??

**thehollowmen** · 17th December 2006, 17:11

Just thinking, it may have been disconnected, or damaged in a crash.

You can race just fine without them. I go shift by sound around town too

**Hillbilly** · 17th December 2006, 22:43

C'mon, 83 km/hr??

**Romeo** · 18th December 2006, 03:40

I'm pretty sure they've both been 'shopped. Looks like they've imposed that bike on the [overly gausion blurred track]. Plus the perspective+shadows+hues look kind of off to me. Anyways, it's a pretty good effort - a good reason why you should get someone with at least a little domain experience to do your graphic work.

Although some funny bastard at the studio could have just did that for a laugh.

**Citroenjunkie** · 18th December 2006, 10:02

Riding a honda is like picking your nose...great till your friends catch you doing it!

Riding with a finger up my nose since 1984

**jeremysprite** · 19th December 2006, 09:50

Does the CBR1000 have a tach visible? I remember watching a utube video of a nutter riding (badly) around a city at like 180 on a CBR1000, thing had a single clock.

**vamr** · 19th December 2006, 15:18

Originally Posted by Romeo

I'm pretty sure they've both been 'shopped. Looks like they've imposed that bike on the [overly gausion blurred track]. Plus the perspective+shadows+hues look kind of off to me. Anyways, it's a pretty good effort - a good reason why you should get someone with at least a little domain experience to do your graphic work.

Although some funny bastard at the studio could have just did that for a laugh.

A) that is not gausian blur, simply not consistant enough. There is a transition of bokar that gausian blur can not replicate. The shutter speed is obviously slow in order to insinuate the sense of movement, it's a trial and error sort of thing.

B) the hues are consistant. I think they did a fairly decent job on colour correction which is a bitch on a clear day with the sun washing everything out. The shadows are consistant with the weather condition, check out the sky.

C) In terms of perspective it looks alright to me, the 3rd pick is a bit iffy due to the focal plain but that really depends on the road conditions, line taken and aperture selection. Still, who knows how much has been cropped out of the original image.

You'd be surprised how "un-natural" images can appear when you throw panning and swinging in the equation. Check out some contemporary 4x5 work of Olivo Barbieri.

**Romeo** · 19th December 2006, 20:04

True that. Although that lack of real distortion through the windscreen [1st pic] makes me question it. And the crisp hues [on the rider] in the second pic versus the washed out colours of the environment also seem a bit iffy [that's clearly had the smudge tool over it]. That said there's a lot of small things in it which would voice for it being authentic - the relfections on the hemlet etc. I'm no expert, but by the sounds of things vamr probably is, so I think I'll stick with his explanation ;s.

**Edbear** · 20th December 2006, 05:47

All very informative, guys! However it still doesn't explain why the speedo is showing 83km/h and the tacho zero rpm...

Unless Honda preload speedo error to make their bikes seem faster....?

**moko** · 21st December 2006, 00:06

Maybe they get them from the same place Yamaha get their R6 rev-counters and they got mixed up at the factory.

**vamr** · 21st December 2006, 01:04

Originally Posted by Edbear

All very informative, guys! However it still doesn't explain why the speedo is showing 83km/h and the tacho zero rpm...

Unless Honda preload speedo error to make their bikes seem faster....?

The needle is starting on it's second trip around the dial?

**Hillbilly** · 21st December 2006, 01:26

I reckon the speedo's right! The rider is probably moving at a nanna's pace, and they've used a slow shutter speed. That's why they disconnected the tacho. You can't really be moving that fast if the tacho shows something like 4-5k. Notice how they antialiased the speedo in the second photo.