Happy Thanksgiving!

[old_tv_nut]

[zenithfan1]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too Wayne!

[Tube TV]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Dude111]

I hope everyone had a g00d day!!!!!!!

[old_tv_nut]

[Tube TV]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Damm the picture on that RCA is a beauty.

[kf4rca]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone from Atlanta GA. What kind of camera did you use to shoot that? I always had trouble shooting off a CRT.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by kf4rca

Happy Thanksgiving everyone from Atlanta GA. What kind of camera did you use to shoot that? I always had trouble shooting off a CRT.

Canon 5D Mk IV - but the secret is not which camera, but either:

1) making two exposures, one with room lights to show the cabinet, another one with room lights off to capture the screen, and pasting them together.
or
2) setting up lighting for minimum light on the screen and then using the Lightroom "Dehaze" on the screen only to eliminate the lowlight fog.

I also usually boost the "Texture" on the screen to make it look sharper - as anyone who owns one knows, the low-end CTC-5 chassis needs all the help it can get.

Simultaneous contrast effects in the human eye do the equivalent when direct viewing.

[Electronic M]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Tube TV]

This is brilliant! I've been using long exposures around 1 second and had OK results but now I'm going to have to try this.

One problem I have been having is a Moiré pattern at higher resolutions when the pixels are clashing with the screen when photographing color screens.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Tube TV

This is brilliant! I've been using long exposures around 1 second and had OK results but now I'm going to have to try this.

One problem I have been having is a Moiré pattern at higher resolutions when the pixels are clashing with the screen when photographing color screens.

I learned this long before I had a use for it, working at Motorola and observing what the advertising photographers did. This started to be a problem when Sylvania published ads saying "Actual TV picture," when everyone previously had ads with "Simulated TV picture."

By the way, for photos of sets that didn't need to show a real picture or were to show the set without a picture (turned off), they had a dulling spray for the face of the tube. No way would I fool around with that mess!

As for moire', you may have to experiment with how much to zoom so you don't actually resolve the phosphor dots too well. On the other hand, if you do resolve the dots, and don't see moire' when viewing full size but only when down-sized, then you may need to experiment with the downsizing software.

[kf4rca]

I knew there had to be some magic. I got moire when shooting with a digital camera. I had better luck using a film camera set to 1/30 of a second. But that was years ago.

[old_tv_nut]

Happy Thanksgiving 2025!

[bandersen]

Happy Thanksgiving. Hope to fire up my CTC5 soon.