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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message ... 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. -- James V. Silverton Potomac, Maryland, USA |
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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... Cheers, Jason (remove ... to reply) Video & Gaming: http://gadgetaus.com |
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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 ... 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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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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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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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message ... 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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"Hugh Nagle" wrote in message ... 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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"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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"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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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. -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- |
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