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Photographing Xenon and LED headlamps
rdfcpete:
Hopefully the right place for this question guys (?).
With a point and shoot camera or even a respectable smart phone on board camera, is it possible to cleanly capture xenon and/or LED light? Is there a particular approach to doing this successfully if it's feasible or is more serious hardware the only option?
Purely a question out of interest as I find unless you pivot the camera well above the beam pattern, it blurs too easily.
Thanks.
jonm:
All depends on what aspect of the xenon light you're trying to capture?
Colour? difference?
You'd need to use the manual features to adjust the aperture...
You cannot just simply take a photo of the headlight head on... as the camera sensor will have nothing to lock onto thus giving you the blur
rich83:
--- Quote from: rdfcpete on November 19, 2012, 02:48:07 pm ---Hopefully the right place for this question guys (?).
With a point and shoot camera or even a respectable smart phone on board camera, is it possible to cleanly capture xenon and/or LED light? Is there a particular approach to doing this successfully if it's feasible or is more serious hardware the only option?
Purely a question out of interest as I find unless you pivot the camera well above the beam pattern, it blurs too easily.
Thanks.
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Post a picture of what issue you are having... ill try and advise!
rich83:
Xenon Dipped Beam by Rich Wigley, on Flickr
rdfcpete:
--- Quote from: jonm on November 19, 2012, 04:08:50 pm ---All depends on what aspect of the xenon light you're trying to capture?
Colour? difference?
You'd need to use the manual features to adjust the aperture...
You cannot just simply take a photo of the headlight head on... as the camera sensor will have nothing to lock onto thus giving you the blur
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LED strips and OEM Bi-Xenon's on my MY10 A3 Black Edition to be precise Jon. I only pick them up well if I'm above the beam pattern, but that might be right with point and shoot stuff. It's just always bugged me to ask.
--- Quote from: richwig83 on November 19, 2012, 04:16:31 pm ---
Xenon Dipped Beam by Rich Wigley, on Flickr
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That's exactly what I can't achieve Rich, but I know for a fact you've got some serious hardware & components. Does only serious kit capture it properly and I'm wasting my time with a 12mp P&S or 8mp Galaxy SII phone camera? :grin:
Cheers.
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