For Photographing Monitor: color temperature?

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What is the average color temperature of an LCD monitor. Television sets,
i.e. CRT monitors, are around 9000 K. Anyone know roughly what the LCD
monitor color temperature is?
 
At out of the box settings, they seem to be set quite cool.
Gamma is also usually off when compared to various monitor calibration
schemes.
The mfrs ICC file may not really match the LCD out of the box settings.
Seems that interchangable LCD screens can be different from run to run.
If you really care, and are trying to use an LCD display for picture
editing, You might want to try using a "Huey"
http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/products_huey_software.htm
Look around for discounted prices. The list price used to be $99 and
discounted was $79
 
Dear Chuck:

Thank you for the quick reply. What I'm doing is photographing the monitor:
making pictures of pictures I see on it. So it's not a question of
calibrating the monitor but of setting my Canon 10D's White Balance at the
right Color Temperature. Right now, on Automatic White Balance, I'm getting
an over-all blue cast which makes me think I should set the White Balance
higher. 5200, daylight, seems a little low. There's trial and error, which
I'll go through, but a ball park figure to start from would be helpful. Any
tips or clues?

yrs LB
 
Late said:
What I'm doing is photographing the monitor:
making pictures of pictures I see on it.
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Just wondering why you would be photographing
pictures on a monitor? Wouldn't a screenshot
be better?
 
Dear John Inzer

Thank you very much for your reply.
Good question.
I'm working off a PC and I can't find a way, in Windows, to make these
screen shots. The imagery I'm photographing -- coming from the Internet --
changes rapidly. And sometimes I'm shooting several downloaded changing
pictures at once... all changing rapidly. So I'm shooting at the monitor like
a street photographer shooting at a rapidly changing scene on a New York
sidewalk, or a sports photographer shooting a hockey game.

Can you tell me how to do this w/ a PC in Windows XP? Given the nature of
the project, I can't pause between screen shots to write a file name and then
send the file to a folder, i.e. can't stop to bother to type the "Save As"
detail.

Whatever non-camera method I use has to work like a camera: press a key and
the shot is made, labeled and saved to a folder on the hard disk so that I
can keep watching the screen and press the key at the next important moment
which could be a second or less after the first exposure.

Is there some software out there that would let me do this? I'm going
software shopping this afternoon w/ just this question...

Thanks again

LB
 
Late said:
Dear John Inzer

Thank you very much for your reply.
Good question.
I'm working off a PC and I can't find a way, in Windows,
to make these screen shots. The imagery I'm photographing
-- coming from the Internet -- changes rapidly. And
sometimes I'm shooting several downloaded changing
pictures at once... all changing rapidly. So I'm shooting
at the monitor like a street photographer shooting at a
rapidly changing scene on a New York sidewalk, or a
sports photographer shooting a hockey game.

Can you tell me how to do this w/ a PC in Windows XP?
Given the nature of the project, I can't pause between
screen shots to write a file name and then send the file
to a folder, i.e. can't stop to bother to type the "Save
As" detail.

Whatever non-camera method I use has to work like a
camera: press a key and the shot is made, labeled and
saved to a folder on the hard disk so that I can keep
watching the screen and press the key at the next
important moment which could be a second or less after
the first exposure.

Is there some software out there that would let me do
this? I'm going software shopping this afternoon w/ just
this question...

Thanks again

LB
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The following method will not work if the
source is video.

I have found the following freebie to be quite
useful for acquiring quick screen shots.

It can be set so all you have to do is:

1) Press...Print Screen...
2) Press enter...
The screen shot is immediately saved as a .jpg
in a folder of my choice.

Gadwin PrintScreen
http://www.gadwin.com/download/

Also, if you are interested in purchasing
software... I've read that many users like
the following program:

SnagIt
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp?CMP=KgoogleStm
 
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