These notes are for a Canon PowerShot A520--your camera is probably newer. But I've had good luck with this one. Note that I have no idea what your experience with these things are (I am a self-taught sub-hobbyist photog at best) so I'm just gonna say it all; skip the stuff you already know.
First I turned on all the room lights I could (not much in this log house) and set the camera on a little tripod about 12-15cm from the LCD (sorry about using the printer LCD; it's all I have at mom & dad's).
Camera settings:
o Full manual mode.
o F-stop: 2.6
o Shutter speed: 1/5 second
o Focus: full manual; range: Approx. 12 cm.
o Flash: off
o ISO: 50
o White balance: auto
This ain't exactly National Geographic quality but you can see what's what anyway. Skipping the flash lets the backlight show up without getting washed out.
Hope that's something like what you were looking for,
Torben's idea is best. Put the camera on a tripod, turn off the flash and let the camera use as long a shutter speed as it needs.
In lieu of the tripod, put the camera on an object and use the self-timer to shoot the scene to eliminate camera shake at slow shutter speeds with the flash off.
Well I better get a tripod, I use virtual LCDs (thanks to Oshonsoft) for documentation.
The problem must have been the backlight throughs off the cameras meter and it poorly exposest the rest of the image. I'll try a slow shutter.
Well I better get a tripod, I use virtual LCDs (thanks to Oshonsoft) for documentation.
The problem must have been the backlight throughs off the cameras meter and it poorly exposest the rest of the image. I'll try a slow shutter.
How about the refresh rate of the display and that should not interfere with the photo. The exposure time should take care of this aspect I believe. whether the polaroid can't be removed for a while!! ( I am not an expert in photographic techniques.
How about the refresh rate of the display and that should not interfere with the photo. The exposure time should take care of this aspect I believe. whether the polaroid can't be removed for a while!! ( I am not an expert in photographic techniques.
Right--with a long manual shutter time the refresh shouldn't be an issue. Hero999 is right about the polarization issue--I don't have this problem with my camera, but I suppose if some camera/LCD combination *did* show this problem, presumably turning the camera sideways should solve it, like it does with polarized sunglasses.
um. . .I think. This advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.