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emeritus · 13th Jan 2017, 5:29 pm

When we were in France for the 1999 Eclipse, I got very acceptable recordings from French TV (SECAM) by pointing my PAL VHS-C camcorder at my brother-in-law's TV screen. I had to turn the camcorder off and on a few times to get the camera synched with the TV so that no line was visible part-way down the screen, but once set up, synch was maintained for the 30 mins or so I was recording. Synch was maintained while the camcorder was paused. The TV was a 15" Schneider. It was simple to test for synch by panning the camera sideways with a jerk (it was mounted on a tripod with a pan and tilt head), when tearing of the picture part way down the screen was apparent in the camcorder's viewfinder in the non-synch state. It was necessary to adjust the exposure to 1/50 sec, something that seems to be lacking in current models of consumer camcorders.

13th Jan 2017, 5:29 pm	#10
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,337	Re: 405 to 625 When we were in France for the 1999 Eclipse, I got very acceptable recordings from French TV (SECAM) by pointing my PAL VHS-C camcorder at my brother-in-law's TV screen. I had to turn the camcorder off and on a few times to get the camera synched with the TV so that no line was visible part-way down the screen, but once set up, synch was maintained for the 30 mins or so I was recording. Synch was maintained while the camcorder was paused. The TV was a 15" Schneider. It was simple to test for synch by panning the camera sideways with a jerk (it was mounted on a tripod with a pan and tilt head), when tearing of the picture part way down the screen was apparent in the camcorder's viewfinder in the non-synch state. It was necessary to adjust the exposure to 1/50 sec, something that seems to be lacking in current models of consumer camcorders.