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From: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: How to photograph color monitor?
Message-ID: <437@ccird1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 10:53:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 10:53:45 1986
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Summary: Some tips

In article <726@mprvaxa.UUCP> jackson@mprvaxa.UUCP (Taylor Jackson) writes:
>Can anyone out in netland give me pointers, hints on how to photograph
>color monitor displays?

There was a real nice article on how to do this about four years ago.

In short, it is reccomended that you use an SLR camera, mounted on
a tripod.  Darken the room as much as possible.  Set the shutter
speed for at least 1/2 second, preferably longer, and set your f
stop way down, say to f22, use a light meter to get the best setting.
If there is any "overscan" such as is found on ntsc monitors, the scan
lines will disappear.  An ST screen (mono) has just a little "crawl",
so your final picture will not look like a screen, but like a white
piece of paper.  Diagonal lines will still have a slight "stair case"
look as always, but vertical lines and most text will appear quite
solid.

Good luck.