Best Practices for screen photography?

[ARTIFACT]

I do manual settings (aperture priority most of the time) and know how to take pictures - BUT this screen thing is something else

I get: MOIRE PATTERN, and also the obvious black bars across the screen ... Not all the time of course, but enough to make me wonder if there is some info I am missing about this

Thanks - I imagine that it's something obvious.


Is it a specific shutter speed I need to set? I tried a few from 30 ms to ~100 without consistent success

[ahofle]

I thought your pictures looked far better than most I've seen around here.  You have the most important things down -- flash off, manual focus, manual shutter (~ 30ms-40ms works for me usually), and tripod.  Another trick I learned is to set the MAME pause brightness to 1 instead of .65, and then pause the game when taking a picture to avoid motion blurr.  I haven't found a way to avoid the moire pattern, although sometimes it's worse than others.

[ARTIFACT]

thanks for posting!

i hand held those shots while testing ... my trusty portrait 50mm f/1.8 lens made that possible at high ISO - at least for the quick tests it was ok

you bring up good points!

tonight i will try to perfect it by playing with the following:

. tripod
. pause and pause brightness setting
. lower iso as much as possible - to avoid noise

if i get any improvements overmy first test shots, i will write a wiki page about doing the process

stay tuned

thanks again - what a great community !!!

[Bleagh]

If you want to get totally rid of the moire you're going to need to use film.

Tripod will help a LOT.