On Oct 25, 6:59 pm, David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just spent some large amount of time with professional photographers
> working with both my Nixie watch and my LED video coat. They took hours
> and hundreds of pictures to get a couple good shots. I watched their
> methods.
>...

This is pretty much where I got to before I got bored with it all. I
adjusted the white balance, but that then throws everything else off.
I also couldn't get the camera to accurately reproduce the VFD colour
at all. I have a small translucent (diffusing) light tent (about
1mtr3) and some daylight floods ( 3 x 100W) to use with it, but you
still get reflections even with very diffuse light - the glass/FEV is
just so shiny. Not to mention I'm only using a Panasonic TZ-5...

What I'm resorting to is getting a decent photo, the photo-shopping it
as you mention alongside a lit tube so that I get the colour right. I
used to work with some graphics designers who had a marvellous thing
that read the colour and gave you the Pantone equivalent - it was
integrated with the enormous Canon pre-press printers and Apple
workstations they were using. I miss having them around - they would
have just grabbed the actual colour and given me the RGB (or
whatever), at which point I'd be sorted!

Nick

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