Taking photos of displays...

[Jules Richardson]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 16:45 -0500, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that der Mouse may have mentioned these words:
> 
> >After all, long exposure makes the picture more exposed (as compared to
> >a shorter exposure, other things constant); slow film makes the picture
> >less exposed (as compared to a faster film, other things constant).  So
> >you long exposure plus slow film adds up to wanting the "normal"
> >lighting conditions.  And that kind of lighting is what you want for a
> >digital camera anyway.
> 
> Unless, of course, you actually have a decent digital camera... ;-)
> 
> http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/d70/Nitetime_shot_30sec.jpg

Has that been post-processed in any way? The quality's not bad for a
digital - no where near as grainy as most digital cameras are.

> 1.2Meg of storage used -- it's a 30-second exposure of downtown Grand 
> Rapids, 

I'm a bit irritated that mine won't do longer than 15 seconds - at least
I haven't found a way of doing so yet. I expected the manual mode would
also give the option of completely controlling exposure, but it seems
not (although there's way too many options hidden away that I keep on
finding ;)

Comparable cameras in that price range either didn't have the hot-shoe
flash attachment or (incredibly) had no optical viewfinder (the latter
would *completely* drive me nuts).

cheers

Jules