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dougal99

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Photographing Television Picture
« on: March 05, 2009, 06:06:08 pm »
Anybody got any tips for photographing the picture on the TV. I am currently working on a model of Anglian Sovereign which was featured on an episode of coast which was repeated (again) the other night. There are some overhead shots taken form a helicopter which give different views that the photos I have. I tried photographing the paused recording but the results are not fantastic. I have a Kodak automatic digital with various pre set parameters.

Any advice would be gratefully received

Doug
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2009, 06:30:52 pm »
Even a paused frame is refreshing, albeit with the same picture, at 25 frames per second.  If you can set the camera shutter speed to something slower than this, you will be in with a chance.  Whatever else happens, the end result will never be as good as the original.
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2009, 06:32:48 pm »
Have you tried watching it on BBC iPlayer on the link below, view at high quality, pausing at the shots you want & then doing a screen grab? (I use Mac computers but I'm sure a pc must have a similar facility).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=coast

Don't think you'll ever get a good photo from the TV  :((

Hope this helps...

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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2009, 06:33:37 pm »
No tips on photographing the telly but you will find things easier with an old style TV-video card for PC.
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2009, 06:53:45 pm »
Quote from: Vintage on March 05, 2009, 06:32:48 pm
Have you tried watching it on BBC iPlayer on the link below, view at high quality, pausing at the shots you want & then doing a screen grab? (I use Mac computers but I'm sure a pc must have a similar facility).

Hi there - they do...it's the print screen button, usually just to the right of the F12 key on full-sized keyboards. It takes a copy of what's on the monitors, then you open the graphics package of choice (Photoshop is great) and press control-v to paste it.

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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2009, 07:27:42 pm »
Many thanks for the replies. Iplayer (why didn't I think of that   :embarrassed: ) would be the way to go if my broadband wasn't playing up. I'll try again later.

Cheers

Doug

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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2009, 08:01:19 pm »
Another tip for the "print-screen" fraternity.

Press "Alt + print screen" together and the system will capture only what is on the open window rather than the whole screen
This is what the pro's use when putting computer manuals together.
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2009, 03:22:00 am »
Yeah, a slow shutter speed is best but one that is fast enough for hand-holding.

Our leader was taken at 1/30th. I couldn't resist this... I had to run and grab my camera as our master thinks it a 'everyday bloke' type of thing to stand in the rain with an umbrella and have a cup of coffee.

BBC breakfast time. ;-) Still, at least we didn't have dubya.
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2009, 06:40:16 am »
Do you know anybody who has a vhs to dvd recorder, or anybody who can transfer it to dvd, because you can use something like Roxio dvd player and it has a frame capture.so do some of the other dvd player programs for pc's

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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2009, 01:58:55 pm »
Just to let anyone whi is interested know that, unless I am doing something wrong, the Iplayer solution doesn't work  <:(  You can grab the screen and load into a graphics package but when you save the picture as a jpeg the program bit of the picture is blank. All the surround is there just not the bit I want. I thought by saving the pictiure as a native graphics package file It would be OK, but that didn't work for me either. I'll try making a DVD as Proteus suggests (I have a DVD recorder.) The program is currently on DVD RAM.

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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2009, 03:12:49 pm »
Hi Doug

I've just done a quick test (see below) on my Mac  :-)) & it works ok - I'm sure there must be a similar facility on a pc...

Mark
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2009, 08:13:21 pm »
And not living in the uk dont help either. Maybee aunti beeb should redefine things and start the UKWW.
Rather daft that they put things on a WORLD WIDE WEB, that can only be veiwed in the UK!!! <*<
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2009, 08:20:47 pm »
It's apparently a copyrights issue - video in programmes made in the UK often doesn't have clearance or protection rights when/if shown overseas. So the legal types at the Beeb have declared that the iplayer is for domestic use only. Which is maybe ok, since it's us who pay the licence fees.

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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2009, 04:07:00 pm »
Quote from: dreadnought72 on March 10, 2009, 08:20:47 pm
It's apparently a copyrights issue - video in programmes made in the UK often doesn't have clearance or protection rights when/if shown overseas. So the legal types at the Beeb have declared that the iplayer is for domestic use only. Which is maybe ok, since it's us who pay the licence fees.

Andy - ex BBC employee 

Copyright be dammed, its the 2nd bit that more germain... the license fee! Ever notice the weather maps don't do Eire? ;-)
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2009, 04:33:27 pm »
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Ever notice the weather maps don't do Eire?

They don't need to - it rains all the time.....
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2009, 05:18:43 pm »
Quote from: Colin Bishop on March 11, 2009, 04:33:27 pm
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Ever notice the weather maps don't do Eire?

They don't need to - it rains all the time.....
Let me guess, it because they need the rainbows for the leprecahns to hide their gold!
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Re: Photographing Television Picture
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2009, 06:53:17 pm »
If using a camera use a tripod or put the camera on something sturdy.
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