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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on May 26, 2013, 06:56 AM:

Hello all, No matter how hard i try to take an in focus screenshot i just never seem to make it [Confused]

What are your tips in taking a good screenshot please, some of the ones you chaps take are sooooo good [Wink]

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 26, 2013, 07:03 AM:

I can not get a nice shot either ... I tried with a Canon EOS 450D, but it's just too slow. I use a videocamera, a Sony, and film the screen. Get the film onto PC and take snapshots of the film

Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on May 26, 2013, 09:04 AM:

Similar technique can be used for other purposes, too.
I wanted screenshots from the TV so I could give my niece a memento of her appearance as a featured extra on Doc Martin. Taking photos of the TV screen was useless, so I asked my son in Brazil (who downloads English TV series from the
Internet) to trawl through the episode until he found the places my BAD photos occurred, then take screenshots (Snapshots) of them from the PC file and email them to me! Result....BRILLIANT!

(She's the one on HIS left)

Martin

Posted by Oemer Yalinkilic (Member # 86) on May 26, 2013, 09:12 AM:

I use my HTC Desire mobile phone for screenshots.
You have to use it without a flash. About 80% of the screenshots are bad, but few are ok. If you use a projector with Xenon light, sometimes the pics can be look like made from a a pink print.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 26, 2013, 09:20 AM:

No matter what I try I get bad screen shots. They make the film look worse than it actually is. So I don't bother.

PatD

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 26, 2013, 09:25 AM:

Please do anyway, Pat :-)

Love to see other peoples print and most of us are aware that it's looking better in REEL life :-)

Posted by Alan Rik (Member # 73) on May 26, 2013, 12:12 PM:

I use my iphone with no flash and the pictures come out very well...unless there is a lot of movement and then there is blur but the colors stay true to what is on the screen for the most part.

Posted by Flavio Stabile (Member # 357) on May 26, 2013, 01:38 PM:

hi!

I take my pictures with a Nikon D3100...

@Vidar: with your Canon eos 450 you should be able to take wonderful pictures...
Try to use a very short exposure time, with absolutely no light in the room and of course no flash!

This is how I shot all my photos.

Of course I then resize them with my PC but I don't touch colours and don't apply any digital effect.

This is for all Sergio Leone's fans! [Wink]

Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on May 26, 2013, 02:55 PM:

Like Flavio said, if you have a DSLR like the Nikon D-series or Canon EOS-series, then you should be set pretty much off the bat.

It's all about finding the right setting. I use high ISO and fast exposure, that way I "freeze" the frame nicely while still getting a crisp, clear picture.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on May 26, 2013, 04:06 PM:

A beautiful picture of "Per un Pugno" there Flavio,is this from
16 or 35mm? Also it looks like 'scope.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on May 26, 2013, 04:17 PM:

My Blackberry does just fine.

Posted by Flavio Stabile (Member # 357) on May 27, 2013, 09:09 AM:

Hello Hugh!

it is a 35mm print and in scope!
Very happy to show it because it is really a wonderful print!

Flavio

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on May 27, 2013, 10:55 AM:

My congratulations Flavio on your having one of the greatest
ground breaking westerns ever made, and a great print to boot.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on May 27, 2013, 12:25 PM:

Tom, use your video camera for taking VIDEO (not still pictures).

Open that file in any player. Use pause button to get your desire pictures.

Press "print screen" button on your keyboard (some must be ctrl + "print screen" push together).

Open your MS Paint (should you be on Microsoft). Prest ctrl + v for pasting the picture on MS Paint. Do cropping and voila!...

With the above method you will get the best scene possible.

This is for an example of a screen shot from Super 8mm Ektachrome 100D I take form youtube

and later I cropped for better presentation:

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on May 27, 2013, 08:05 AM:

i shall have go, thanks for all the replies

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