Easy way to take line free pictures without turning off your HPS

im tired of retards running rampant

I don't have lines on my pics because I use digital ballasts.

Didn't know that! Good info...rw

Lol interesting idea, even if it seems kind of tricky

i noticed my phone camera causes lines but when I use my digital camera (8.2 MP) there are never any lines

Couple minutes before your lights go out turn a reg light on in your room. When your hps turns off, take your pix turn the light off and get out asap

thanks nick but id rather just cover the lense with my sunglasses..

I thought just forcing your camera to use its flash fixed the problem. Not positive though, I've never had lines in any pictures I've taken with my MH or HPS.

I can still see the lines

Take a photo a few mins before the light comes on. Why cant you do that?

Lines are from the phone cameras, though your blurry sunglass pic is still better than those.

Are half the people on this site retarded?

CaptainCAVEMAN said:

Lines are from the phone cameras, though your blurry sunglass pic is still better than those.

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Really? I took this pic from my phone camera under my 600w digital hps:



I don't see any lines, do you?

The lines are from the 60 cycle frequency that magnetic ballasts produce. Anyone who still runs magnetic ballasts should simply upgrade to modern equipment.

shmoop said:

Are half the people on this site retarded?

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Why do you ask?

it all depends on the quality of the camera being used.. my old camera that i paid good money for at the time was only like 4 mp's and i would get lines when taking pix with the hids on all of the time...
my phone now has a 8 mp camera and i don't get any sort of lines when i take pix now... i also have a small point and shoot that has like 14mp's and same with that, no lines..

so, yah, higher mp cam's will always get you clean shots.. even most of today's better phone camera's like an iphone or a droid like i have are enough to get clean pix ime..

It has nothing to do with pixels, it has everything to do with lamp frequency and camera shutter speed.

PJ Diaz said:

It has nothing to do with pixels, it has everything to do with lamp frequency and camera shutter speed.

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i have the same set up i've always used, and the only thing that is different is the camera's i take the pix with, and i wouldn't know how to change the shutter speed if i tried..

racerboy71 said:

i have the same set up i've always used, and the only thing that is different is the camera's i take the pix with, and i wouldn't know how to change the shutter speed if i tried..

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Different cameras have different ranges of shutter speeds, and also white balance differwntly. How should fitting more pixels in the frame affect anything other than resolution?

.. and I assume you use the magnetic ballast?