[Jon Day]

Capturing and preserving the magical “lite-brite” look of CRT screens in 4K is a rewarding journey! I recently started that journey by purchasing two 4K Panasonic Lumix FZ80 cameras https://amzn.to/3ynwMlp to record off my crisp Sony Wega TV, blurry Samsung GX gaming TV and Tandy 1000 TGA monitors. Won’t lie, it took a fair amount of tweaking the settings and these cameras can only record 15 minutes of 4K footage at a time (after which they auto turn-off and you simply press the record button again). Point is… I’m VERY happy with the results, and it rarely (if ever) shows a dark screen / or timing issue… here’s two videos that I shot in 4K….

https://youtu.be/nhxyn7lX9pc
4K recording of my Tandy 1000 TGA CRT screen, please note after every death animation there is a slow-motion / close-up of the animation which really shows off those ‘lite-brite’ pixels

https://youtu.be/izeVo2tDm-g

4K recording from my Sony Wega crt TV. Lots of close-ups of those pixels, especially at the end.

Good luck, and let me know if you go that route, and I’ll pass along the settings that I use for this camera https://amzn.to/3ynwMlp

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