[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I've snapped pictures from my TVs (CRT and flat screen) using a Radio Shack Flatfoto (r) digital camera, and never had any artifacts on TV pictures such as shutter bars. The Flatfoto camera is 100 percent automatic (using Radio Shack's proprietary Autobrite[r] technology), so I cannot adjust anything -- focus, aperture, white balance, etc. I have Picasa 3 (image retouching software) on my computer, so I can compensate for low light and other flaws in pictures downloaded to the program. The last photos I took from my flat screen TV came out surprisingly well, especially since the flash on the Flatfoto camera isn't that bright to begin with (I usually need at least one extra light on in the room, in addition to the flash, when I'm taking a picture; otherwise it turns out far too dark).

Somewhere in my Picasa photo library I'm sure I have a picture of an image on my flat screen, taken with the FlatFoto. If I can find it (I must have several hundred pictures in that file already, since I've had the FlatFoto camera some five years and have used it a lot), I'll upload it so you can see what this camera can do, given a well-lit subject.

Flat screen TVs (LCDS and plasmas) are not strobed the same way as a CRT TV, and LCDs in particular do not show shutter bars.