Photo finish: my solution!

[miniman82]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Was the set you tried to sell me for 300$ back before you redid the cabinet?

Which one is that?

[Electronic M]

It was an RCA upright roundy newer than CTC-5. You had it in your back room back around when you got the prototype color CRT working (I think it was actually the visit before that).

And no I'm not interested in buying another set right now.

[miniman82]

I might be confused, but I think the right answer is: yes, this is that set. Used to have the Philco hybrid metal tabletop sitting on top of it.

[miniman82]

And finally, the best shot I could get with my camera acting up (sorry no Oz):

[Komet]

Wow!!! Great work and great set!!!

[sampson159]

this looks as good as it did when factory fresh.wonderful job and you deserve the outcome!

[bandersen]

Fantastic job I hope to move up to color someday

It can be tough to get both a good shot of the cabinet and picture. I haven't tried it, but I think others have carefully altered the lighting so the cabinet looks good and taken a shot. Then, altered the light so the picture looks good, and photo-shopped them together.

[miniman82]

That might work, I have Gimp so I'll give that a shot.

[Phil Nelson]

With the camera on a tripod, turn the TV off to take the "good cabinet" photo in normal room lighting. Then turn on the TV (and turn down the room lights if that helps) and take the "good screen" photo. If you didn't jiggle the camera between shots, then you just copy and paste the screen from the good-screen photo into the good-cabinet photo.

I have done this on occasion when, after dozens of attempts, I couldn't get a screen shot that did justice to a particular TV. My camera nearly always turns a B/W screen blue, so sometimes I capture the screen and grayscale it, then paste it back into the same photo.

The difficult part for me is selecting the screen borders so that they smoothly fit into the bezel on the second photo.

Different cameras with different settings may give very divergent results. Some day I'll quit being stubborn and replace my ancient digital camera with one that can take a good screen shot that doesn't need post processing.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Aussie Bloke]

Wow the cabinet now looks so good that the set is as good as coming fresh from the factory, perhaps even better!!! Excellent work there on rebuilding the cabinet!

[lnx64]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

With the camera on a tripod, turn the TV off to take the "good cabinet" photo in normal room lighting. Then turn on the TV (and turn down the room lights if that helps) and take the "good screen" photo. If you didn't jiggle the camera between shots, then you just copy and paste the screen from the good-screen photo into the good-cabinet photo.

I have done this on occasion when, after dozens of attempts, I couldn't get a screen shot that did justice to a particular TV. My camera nearly always turns a B/W screen blue, so sometimes I capture the screen and grayscale it, then paste it back into the same photo.

The difficult part for me is selecting the screen borders so that they smoothly fit into the bezel on the second photo.

Different cameras with different settings may give very divergent results. Some day I'll quit being stubborn and replace my ancient digital camera with one that can take a good screen shot that doesn't need post processing.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

This is where using HDR techniques might actually make it easier.

[miniman82]

OK, first attempt at using Gimp so be gentle!

Copied color bars from darkened shot, pasted into bright cabinet shot (used the flash).

[mpatoray]

Nick,

The set looks great, looks like thats what I am going to have to attempt on the Philco with its damage photo finish.

The colors in the bars look good almost too good, you might be able to make someone think it's HD

Matt

[miniman82]

Originally Posted by mpatoray

The colors in the bars look good almost too good, you might be able to make someone think it's HD.

Nope, just a lowly 21CYP22. Only thing I touched up was the glare reflection in the screen, I didn't correct the colors at all.

[zenithfan1]

Wow, Nick. That really turned out pretty! Great job! I'll have to come see it before you sell it.....if you haven't already:3