[JonM]

Standard HVAC lighting:

Improved HVAC lighting:

Still not perfect, but better nonetheless. I'm going to keep working on it.

 

[Mystikal]

Genuine HID dash lights are the future...:yikes:

 

[Bobs Toy]

I agree the stock lighting needs help. What'd you do?

 

[JonM]

I agree the stock lighting needs help. What'd you do?

Added third bulb.

 

[Ron Stygar]

You have a lamp out. There are two, I think. One obvious and one below.
Lighting is even on my '01.

 

[JonM]

You have a lamp out. There are two, I think. One obvious and one below.
Lighting is even on my '01.

There are 2. I checked both, and they both work. I don't know why mine was so uneven before. My 97 Z3 had same look. So does Andy's 02.

 

[chazzy]

My lighting seems balanced, though the colors came out a little funny in the picture.

 

[acao]

My lighting seems balanced, though the colors came out a little funny in the picture.

Whoa, thought I was back to using a CGA monitor/card again!

 

[JonM]

My lighting seems balanced, though the colors came out a little funny in the picture.

Yeah, I should mention that my night time digital camera skills are lacking. The car looks 500% better in real life than either of my pics.

 

[GSXR Drew]

"Whoa, thought I was back to using a CGA monitor/card again!"

That was too funny!!

 

[chazzy]

CGA ... wow. That's a trip on the Wayback Machine.

I just looked at the original for that picture and the colors look a lot better. I usually throw my pictures through a macro on Photoshop to auto-color-balance and auto-contrast the pictures and save them in a bunch of different formats/sizes. The lighting is unconventional, so it screwed them up. This is one picture that I should have done by hand, especially since it's a keeper. I can take hundreds of photos before dumping them to the notebook, so doing them all by hand is not practical.

Here's a resized version of the untouched original:

In case anyone is wondering, it's a Canon G1.

 

[rukman]

what's the center gauge monitor???...euro-spec car?

 

[chazzy]

The center gauge is just the outside temperature.