making slides

[mcclanah at dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov]

>BTW: Photographing the screen - if you take care to avoid distortion
- >	can result in very nice slides too.  

I have taken slides of the screen with excellent results in the past,
several hints:
1) Use a totally dark room - this decreases glare and increases contrast.
2) Use a telephoto (or zoom) lens - this dimminishes the distortion of the 
curved screen
3) Try to zoom in as much as possible to get only the screen - don't 
purposefully include the monitor frame (the plastic edge around the glass).
It is not possible to get a picture without some of the frame included but
since you are in a dark room it shouldn't appear on the slides.

Good luck,
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