can camera handle image from LCD monitor?

timderoche · December 6, 2004

I'm using Zenith 23" flatscreen LCD monitors as a part of the set for a studio interview show.

Will the SDX900's be able to handle the images on the LCD monitors?

Michael Nash · December 7, 2004

You shouldn't have any problems with roll bars on the monitors with LCD's, but you may want to set the camera's shutterspeed to 1/60 for the smoothest motion rendering of NTSC video material on the screens.

Alvin Pingol · December 8, 2004

And be sure you set the monitors to the appropriate color temperature, and brightness, as well.

Phil Rhodes · December 8, 2004

Hi,

A lot of LCD monitors have cold-cathode fluorescent backlights; they're very blue, almost cyan. You may even end up gelling them, or making a fairly large adjustment on any software you have in the way.

Phil

cineshooter · December 9, 2004

I just shot a couple of things off a Dell LCD computer monitor. I did not have a person in the shot, so I just white balanced my camera for the screen (it was very blue at the standard tungsten light white balance) The shot looked fine. Sharp, nice color reproduction, no roll.

As for the color problem, I worked on a network's pre-game football show a few years ago. This is how the engineers of the show handled the monitor that was on set for the host and the guests. We used to pump a source through the monitor on set, then shoot that monitor with one of the studio cameras....the monitor's controls would then be tweaked so that the picture in the monitor looked good to the cameras shooting the show, not to eye.

JD

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