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Article #11969Re: Photographing Screen
From: Richard Mossman
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 21:45
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 21:45
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Last year I got some really good results with my Canon AE-1 and some Mac
screens.
I took an old manila folder, cut a rectangle in the middle that was just
a little bit smaller than the screen of my Mac+, spray painted it with
flat black paint and taped it to the front of the Mac. I needed the small
size to hide the menu bar.
I then put my AE-1 on a tripod, centered and leveled it, and shot the pictures.
I used both 1/60 and 1/30 of a second, and let the autoexposure pick the
f-stop. I also tried it with both a flash and without. The shots without
the flash (but with plenty of ambient light coming in through a window that
didn't shine on the screen) worked best. The ones with a flash caused a
white streak across the slide.
I don't know whether the ones shot at 1/60 were better than the ones at 1/30,
but my new Canon EOS says to use 1/30 (and I never argue with a computer).
Good luck!
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Richard K. Mossman {bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!rkm
415/823-0974
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