Shooting Cell Phone Screens With Perfect Focus?

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yabyum

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I have some decent experience shooting cell phone screens, here's one of my shoots here: http://tinyurl.com/37dpw3y (youtube link)

The thing is I've found is that setting perfect focus gives a grid look to the image, which I suspect is the pixels on the screen. I don't want that grid look. However! I really would like the lovely sharp image that that focus provides me.

The way I get around it now is by setting my focus to just a tiny bit underfocused or overfocused (I forget which right now). This works to get rid of the grid but the sharpness is definitely less, sometimes a lot less depending on the tiniest bit of change in the focus.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
Hmmm.... Thing is I do need the finger in the image as well and the software on the phone. I suppose an emulator of the software and then mask the finger somehow. I think I might just bite the bullet and go with the grid and see what I can do to clean it up in post. Planning on doing some zoom cropping and a bit blurry might mess that up.
 
Use green screen. Put a piece of green screen tape over the screen. You can track the corners of the tape (assuming they are good corners and not messy pieces of tape), but still have the finger be left alone.
 
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