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Old October 16th 04, 02:03 PM
James Silverton
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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
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Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if
anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field -
far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the
contents of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh


Do you have an LCD monitor? I just picked up my camera and took a
picture with my little Nikon 3200. It's fine; no bands or anything but
with a CRT, I'd use an exposure several times the refresh rate.


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Old October 16th 04, 03:44 PM
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Maybe expose and balance on a mid-grey filled screen and use a medium
telephoto to maintain squareness. Low ambient light, watch for reflections
of white objects like your clothes, tripod or papers etc. Shoot 1- 2 stops
down from max, using the sharpest range of your lens.

Shutter speed shouldn't be much of an issue with LCD, but for CRT 1/30 ish
or slower should be fine. You can also crank up the screen brightness to
get some more light...

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Old October 16th 04, 04:29 PM
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lcd monitors do not flicker like crt screens do... nothing special to do to
get a bright image that is not banded like crt images are known for... try
it.

"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
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On 10/16/04 11:04 AM, in article
, "Hugh Nagle"
wrote:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone

had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents

of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh

I should have elaborated. I'm using a Nikon d70 to photograph the flat,

LCD
screen of a Mac PowerBook G4.

Hugh



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Old October 16th 04, 10:09 PM
Hugh Nagle
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On 10/16/04 11:04 AM, in article
, "Hugh Nagle"
wrote:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh

Thanks to you all for your help/opinions on this.

Regards,

Hugh

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Old October 16th 04, 10:09 PM
Hugh Nagle
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On 10/16/04 11:04 AM, in article
, "Hugh Nagle"
wrote:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh

Thanks to you all for your help/opinions on this.

Regards,

Hugh

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Old October 17th 04, 02:59 AM
Mark M
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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
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Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents of

a
screen capture.

Any ideas?


1/15th to 1/30th depending on your refresh rate.
Slow is always better so long as you've got a stable camera (no movement).


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Old October 17th 04, 02:59 AM
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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
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Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents of

a
screen capture.

Any ideas?


1/15th to 1/30th depending on your refresh rate.
Slow is always better so long as you've got a stable camera (no movement).


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Old October 17th 04, 03:00 AM
Mark M
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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
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On 10/16/04 11:04 AM, in article
, "Hugh Nagle"
wrote:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone

had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents

of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh

I should have elaborated. I'm using a Nikon d70 to photograph the flat,

LCD
screen of a Mac PowerBook G4.


LCDs are much easier to shoot since they don't flicker.
If you've got a D70, then surely you can shoot a series at different shutter
speeds and find out what the answer is here within about 30 seconds time...


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Old October 17th 04, 03:00 AM
Mark M
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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message
...
On 10/16/04 11:04 AM, in article
, "Hugh Nagle"
wrote:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone

had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.

Saw a very nice pic on a newspaper today. Shallow depth of field - far
greater "feel" than could be generated with software from the contents

of a
screen capture.

Any ideas?

Hugh

I should have elaborated. I'm using a Nikon d70 to photograph the flat,

LCD
screen of a Mac PowerBook G4.


LCDs are much easier to shoot since they don't flicker.
If you've got a D70, then surely you can shoot a series at different shutter
speeds and find out what the answer is here within about 30 seconds time...


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Old October 17th 04, 09:33 AM
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Kibo informs me that Hugh Nagle stated
that:

Now, I know I could do a screen capture, but I was wondering if anyone had
any ideas on how best to photograph a computer screen.


It's easy. You'll need a tripod, positioned with the camera as parallel
as possible with the screen, & a shutter speed that's an *exact*
multiple of the displays refresh rate to prevent dark bars appearing in
the photo. Eg: to photograph an American TV screen (60Hz field rate,
30Hz refresh rate), you'd use a shutter speed of 1/30th, 1/15th, etc.

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