LED Shoppe 50mW Beamshots

[FreshlyCutFries]

I'm not sure if it is 50mW or not but whatever.
It's taken with a 7.2 mega pixel Sony Cybershot. If anyone has one, could you tell me the best settings to use for beamshots? And sorry they are a little blurry.

 

[ben74]

Turn the wheel thing to the little palm tree with the two lines, it's  great for blu-ray.

 

[691175002]

I'm not sure what you can do on your camera, but I force the ISO to the lowest setting, disable flash, set up a tripod and use a .5-1s exposure time with the rest automatic.  Works very well and my camera is one of those 100$ pieces of crap.

The low ISO is the biggest key in my opinion.  Cameras default to high ISO (sensitivity) in dark conditions, however high ISO greatly increases the noise and other crap in the final picture (you can see a lot of speckling in your images).  If you have a tripod the camera can take as long as it needs so there is no need to sacrifice quality for speed.

 

[Benm]

Using a tripod or some other way to keep the camera stable (set it on a table) is the best way to get nice beamshots. Reducing ambient light also helps - so you can increase shutter time without exposing the darker areas of the composition too much.

If your camera has a 2 or 10 second timer (to take pictures of yourself), use it - pressing the shutter no longer moves the camera during exposure, so you can work with the cheapest of tripods or just put the camera on a stack of books

 

[Deleted member 8178]

Ah, look on all that IR in the first picture. :-X