I got some 16" Fiat 500 rims in my hands so I had to try it out :slayer: What do you think?
For more photos check my photoblog...

Fiat100hp said:

I got some 16" Fiat 500 rims in my hands so I had to try it out :slayer: What do you think

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Personally, I think they look rather neat...!

What's the ride like...? Any different...?

Look much better, other wheels looked too small for the car and too black. Need some break in the colour .
All you have to do now is get Abarth center caps for ur new shiny wheels

Ebay, choice of 2
black - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-500-..._Car_Exterior_Accessories&hash=item2ec38c35c9
or
chrome - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-500-..._Car_Exterior_Accessories&hash=item2ec38c33d6

I don't bought them, they are from a friends ride. The black rims are my winter steel wheels. I have the 15" 100hp rims for summer. The 500 wheels are cool but not 100% what I want. I don't drove them so i can't say how they are.

They look nice, but I think the standard ones which are blockier, suit the more blocky styling of the Panda. I've got those wheels on my 500 and have them though, weigh a ton though.....

Wheels look good - a little bit 'large'. I've always fancied 'minilite' look wheels. The Yanks have them for their 500s.

As for the photos - some neat pics - nice composition, but your camera is struggling on focus in low light and showing some degree of shake in the garage shots.

The night/rain ones are pretty slick and with no shake - so you're either using 2 different cameras or you have a tripod!Also, some of the shallow dOF looks a bit 'post-processing' on the daylight shots.

Share your kit just for interest.

Hi ABI100, you know what your talking about You are a photographer right?
The garage photos were made ​​spontaneously. So the only camera I could use was the 60£ Canon PowerShot A470 owned by the garage
Almost all the photos in my blog are taken with my Olympus E-PL1. Only the night photos with the black rims are photographed with the canon eos 550d I borrowed from my brother. I'm not a pro photographer, it's more a hobby for me. I have fun shooting and editing photos and learn more about it to improve it.

EPL-1 is nice and very capable. I use two m43 - both the other firm - Panasonic G2 and GH2 with a variety of lenses. I dumped my Nikon DSLR - too bulky and I like EVF.

Do yourself a favour and get an old manual focus Nikon/Canon/whatever 50mm f1.8 lens and the associated cheap Chinese adapter - the f1.8 lenses are not dear and can give delicious shallow focus and low ISO in low light.

I rarely take ones of my car to be honest - more of scenery or whatever. But on holiday I try and get decent ones of the hire cars. Here's a couple - bear in mind the quality sucks on my website cos I have to pay by the byte. Nothing fancy:

New Panda Mk4- not keen on the exterior interior. Prefer the Mk3

http://m2.i.pbase.com/g1/35/531535/2/146414582.9osoXiVq.jpg


A Fiesta - ugh. Capable but dull and ugly

http://m3.i.pbase.com/g4/35/531535/2/144727873.MfJvxiHt.jpg

The classic Mk3 Panda!

http://ic2.pbase.com/g4/35/531535/2/141980905.72QH06ZE.jpg

AB100 said:

EPL-1 is nice and very capable. I use two m43 - both the other firm - Panasonic G2 and GH2 with a variety of lenses. I dumped my Nikon DSLR - too bulky and I like EVF.

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Aha! Another PBase user...! I use a Nikon D200, with a variety of lenses; and also prefer landscapes (which is why my car shots aren't up to much...). I'm also experimenting with just using my iPhone; and only now use my iPad to edit... -- makes life interesting....

What's your user name on PBase (PM me if you want...)? Mine's homeward (SRW). See you around...!

PS: Sorry to take this even further off-topic....

Oh a panasonic user, I'm thinking about buying a G5 because it has some cool features and the display is a touchscreen and moveable. The photo quality is better and it looks good. Maybe I get the Panasonic pancake 20mm/1.7f, a very good lens.

D200 was a decent camera and still capable of excellent images - the 6mp is now a bit restrictive - and I hated my D70 for gathering dust on the sensor - never get this with the M43 cameras cos of the cleaning system.

www.pbase.com/arburdett

The Panny G5 is better than the G3 for sure - 20mm f1.7 is useful - can be a bit slow on focus. The EVF for me is the most important - forget trying to focus via a flat screen on the back.....

Looks really smart.

Both of you guys have really nice photos on pbase
I fully agree with you, an evf is a thing i always miss at my epl1. It was really difficult to focus right with the screen when i had the Canon lenses on. And in low light conditions the auto focus speed of the kitlens is bad. I think the G5 is the right camera to get me further.

Like the wheels!! If you did run the 500 16inch wheels would it throw the speedo out??

I didnt run the wheels. I just tried them to see how it looks. I think the 500 must have the same tire size like the panda so there is no problem with the speedo.

Im running Abarth 16" wheels on my Panda and no, speedo was not thrown. Showing same speeds against my Tom Tom as before on stock wheels.