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From: gords@cognos.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: photo of crt
Keywords: photo, crt
Message-ID: <8018@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 16:20:20 GMT
References: <146@tslwat.UUCP> <1255@msa3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: gords@cognos.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1255@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates) writes:
>>Does anyone have any experience in taking photos of what is on a CRT screen?
>>What lighting, if any, should be used, what f stop, what shutter speed?  I
>>am using a 35 mm camera.
>[Many good tips]

I've never done it myself, but I've been told that in order to avoid funny
curving of the ouline of the screen in the corners, you should place the camera
as far as possible from the screen use a zoom lens to fill the picture with the
screen.  This 'flattens' out the picture.

Hope this helps.

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