Help - taking photo's of a Plasma Display (HD) is nigh on impossible!

[domtheone]

I've just about given up.

Checked back on a few threads on how to take pics of of a Plasma displaying a HD source.

In this case it's HD DVD.

I've paused the picture. Soon as I look throgh the viewfinder of my Nikon D50 I can see vertical scan lines!

Take the picture and I get huge red vertical lines/banding all across the picture

Have tried various S/Speeds of between half a sec and 1/100. Also varied the ap a little bit as well. Flash is off. Room is darkish (Daylight but blinds semi closed and it's dull outside). Got my camera on the tripod about 6 ft from the screen with the lense zoomed (optical) just to cover the tv frame.

Any advise it's really me off as I know it can be done

[U'R'ss]

not a HD but the screen shoot was ok





Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 800

Hand held

[domtheone]

Similar settings (apart from the ISO)

Not massive scan lines now but those vertical lines are pretty much what I see through the lense so it must be my tv.

[D-an-W]

No idea what settings I used, it was on my IXUS 400.

The source is SkyHD using the TV to freeze the picture...

[senu]

If you get the shutter speed that works best.. below 1/25-1/30 although if you know its refresh rate that is the ideal.
you may want to select the TV area in PP software and apply an anti moire filter or a very light blur/ such as is used in "airbrushing" models
This is why In many photographs of product shots ( say Argos) TV images tend to have normal images super imposed onto screens