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Article #2659Re: Screen Photography
From: Danny Low
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 21:40
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 21:40
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>A question for those of you who have taken pictures of your VGA screens.
>What exposure time is most appropriate? I know it needs to be long enough
>to avoid the screen retrace, but what is optimal?
>
>I recently took slides of some color diagrams done with the paint program
>included in Windows 3. I figured 1/8 second should be adequate, yet the
>slides demonstrated broad diagonal swaths of darker colors that appear to
>be retrace related. Otherwise, the results were quite nice using the
>Zenith FTM monitor.
1/15 of a second should have been adequate. I have done screen shots that
fast although mostly I shoot at 1/2 to 1 second due to the slow speed of
the film I use. This is for US electrical cycle times.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP SPCD dlow%hpspcoi@hplabs.hp.com ...!hplabs!hpspcoi!dlow
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