I have been doing some capture of old PAL Video 8 tapes using crappy consumer cameras. One (very old and huge JVC or Panasonic, not sure right now) produces some nasty sharpening effect on the image and clips the highlights, and another (Sony) smears the image (edges produce an "echo" far away from the actual edge) and leaves a vertical strip of chroma out along the left edge of the picture. There is also the stuff like lines occationally rolling down the picture over a few frames, and horizontal movement among scanlines, causing different parts of the image to stutter left and right between frames.
What is the most reasonable way to capture this? Are there any good, but affordable, VCRs or cameras recommended? Are the glitches I mention a cause of tape defects, or/and can it be fixed with a TBC?
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