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Digital Photos of the television

aardvaak
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I have some VHS videos that I have recorded from my camcorder some years ago.

Can someone please tell me if it is possible for me to take a still photo using my digital camera and if so how?

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  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    Not using your digital camera, nope. SOME camcorders will let you do this. You're better spending £20 and getting a capture card/usb stick for your computer. Then you'll be able to get the videos off VHS and onto DVD as well as taking stills.
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • zz9pa
    zz9pa Posts: 68 Forumite
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    If you do get a capture card - make sure its capable of analogue...
    A lot of them now are just digital and you wont be able to use those for this...
  • totalsolutions
    totalsolutions Posts: 3,110 Forumite
    Set up the VHS player pause/freeze frame and snap a photo of the TV screen. Something would be captured. Set the shutter speed low if you can.
    New Personal Digital recorders now do this and capture to USB memory stick or record to DVD
  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,393 Forumite
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    Whatever method you use the image quality will be pretty poor.
    Stompa
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    zz9pa wrote: »
    If you do get a capture card - make sure its capable of analogue...
    A lot of them now are just digital and you wont be able to use those for this...

    Then it'd be a tuner and not a capture card.
    They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it
  • zz9pa
    zz9pa Posts: 68 Forumite
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    A tuner card implies that it can pick up RF via a 'tuner'.
    You dont need an RF tuner for this - just an analogue "video in".
    I suppose you can play semantics over whether a capture card is still a capture card if it has an integrated tuner..

    However- most of the 'usb sticks' are usb freeview receivers which wont work for this - I think its an important distinction

    :cool:
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