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Whew....you guys are a tough crowd. Let me see if I can straigten this out. I'll refer to the pictures as:
#1 set with doors open, no picture on screen,
#2 doors open long shot of picture on screen
#3 close up of screen.
Picture #1 shows the screen and the mask, which is sort of a mustard yellow color. That's the correct color of the mask. I had a problem getting the screen exposure and the cabinet exposure correct together in Picture #2 . I darkened the room a bit, turned down the brightness of the picture, (played with the camera exposure settings) and took the picture. Everything was pretty dark except for the screen, which was about the right exposure, but the mask now looks green because of the darker exposure. I lightened up the cabinet and room around it, but it's still darker than in pic #1. If you look at the floor in pics #1 and pic#2 you'll see the floor is much darker in pic #2 than in pic#1...that's why.
I kept the room light and exposure on the camera about the same for the close up screen shots, but as Tom Albrecht mentioned, to get a good screen exposure, the brightness level of the crt has to be lowered. It's a hit and miss proposition. I probably have 40 or 50 pictures or more I took at various exposure levels, room light levels, screen brightness levels. It's just trial and error.
My goal is to give an accurate representation of what the picture really looks like on a particular set, no more and no less. I'd extend an open invitation to anyone who'd like to stop by any time and check it out in person.
I'm not going to say the every picture I post is 100% accurate to what the image on the screen looks like...but I do my very best to achieve that.
Hope that sheds some light on all of this.
Thanks.
Bob
PS (I'm sorry this sidetracked the real issue which is that this is a really quirky interestingly different set.)
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