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| 1298.1 | no problem | WJG::GUINEAU | | Mon Apr 04 1988 11:43 | 13 |
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Sure! I've taken several pictures off the Amiga monitor screen with
a standard 35mm camera and color file. They come out fantastic! Only
trouble is getting the back lighting and screen picture contrast right to
minimize your reflection off the screen showing up in the picture!
Basically, get the camera close enough to focus on just the screen and
snap away... I did some of the pictures from Deluxe Paint II, some
of the other ones on the net ...
John (who takes pictures of lots of strange things!)
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| 1298.2 | one more | WJG::GUINEAU | | Mon Apr 04 1988 11:46 | 16 |
| -< no problem >-
> a standard 35mm camera and color file. They come out fantastic! Only
^^^^
oops, thats color FILM!
Also, I've done some off a standard TV screen - Not too bad, but without
(a genlock?) device to sync you camera to vertical retrace, you get a red
line, a few scan lines high, at wherever the picture was being repainted
at the time. And you can see mucho scan lines, unlike on Amiga monitor
where you can't see *any*!
John
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| 1298.3 | | HYSTER::DEARBORN | Trouvez Mieux | Mon Apr 04 1988 11:59 | 16 |
| Use a different shutter speed to elimate the scan problems.
I shoot pics off my screen with a Polaroid 680 (the last generation
SX-70 SLR camera). It works quite well, but the pictures are distorted
because of the curvature of the screen, and the type of lens on
the camera.
The best way to go is ImageSet in San Fransisco. They used to
advertise in AmigaWorld. Send them a disk, and they send you slides.
They can even go direct to color separations for printing. Expensive,
but the best.
Never used them myself.
Randy
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| 1298.4 | shutter speed/f-stop adj. | TEACH::BOB | Bob Juranek EKO/339-4312 | Wed Apr 06 1988 13:05 | 13 |
| re: .2
A shutter speed of less than 1/30 th of a second coupled with a
corresponding adjustment in the f stop should remedy your scan line
problem and have the added benefit of providing improved color
saturation. If you're using slide film I would suggest Kodachrome
with an ASA of 25. Also don't foget the tripod. This becomes more
important as the shutter speed decreases (a cable or air release
also helps here too.)
Happy snapping.
Bob
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| 1298.5 | How the pros do it | ELWOOD::PETERS | | Wed Apr 06 1988 14:57 | 13 |
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I was at the DEC RV20 anouncement yesterday and talked with
the DEC photographer. He said that he takes pictures of screens all
the time. We put up a white screen and he measued the light with a
light meter touching the screen. He then pulled out a red/pink
filter. He said that most film will be on the blue side and the
meter reading told him how dark a filter to use. The results were
great and the color was perfect. He was using a tripod and shutter
cable. He also said that he was using a very slow shutter speed.
Steve
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| 1298.6 | my results | ERLANG::SLACK | | Wed Apr 06 1988 17:13 | 7 |
| I have taken hundreds of K25 slides of my 1080 monitor and have
foun the color balance to be just fine without any filtration.
E6 process slide film such as some of the Ektachromes are sometimes
more blue than the kodachrome but not so much as to need any
correction,in my opinion. I have a 20 x30 print of a 32 color lo-res
screen (part of the Mandelbrot set) in my office if you'd like to
see a typical example. LKG2-2 pole B14.
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