Day 248: Before My Time

2026-10-12Hello! I hate the color in this image!Why do museums and exhibitions have such awful lighting? To my untrained eye, the color of this beige machine looks ugly. In person, it was fine. In the end, I caved and let a preset do the work of recoloring this image.And the display! Modern displays have advanced so far, so I didn't know how to deal with the strobe display of this Macintosh device. It has no smoothing whatsoever, and I could see the flicker in person.I would have needed to take a lucky photograph to prevent the artifacts of the old screen mid-refresh. I instead used the exposure triangle to exploit a slight loophole, where by setting the shutter speed slower than the refresh rate of the display, it would photograph the entire screen with reasonable brightness.Our eyes use "persistence of vision", blurring quick motion like the refresh of an old digital display to give us a constant bright screen. The cameras need to be told to average out the brightness over a set…