Monday, May 27, 2013

Are camcorders good for still photography as well?

Q. Or are they only meant for video recording?
How about the Sony DCR SX21E?


I am finding it difficult to choose between a digital camera and a camcorder, so asking.

A. If you think about it, you could answer your own question.

Video is shot at 30 fps, which means that you have no ability to use controlled shutter speeds like 30 seconds or 1/4000th second and all those in between

Pick the camera that most suits your needs.

If you want to shoot still images, buy a digital camera.

If you want to shoot video, buy a video camera

If you want to shoot both, some dSLR cameras have a video feature, you you may want to read this first.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/camcorders/cam-cam.shtml


What's the best digital video/photography camera?
Q. Hey guys, I want a good digital camera that does amazing quality videos (for short movies) that I will edit on final cut pro later and good quality still images. Do you know what brand is the BEST? Like, amazing quality?

A. This a common question and i always suggest Canon EOS Rebel T3i.
Why? simply because you have full HD video, Ability to articulate LCD screen and Digital zoom :)

I found this review of a person who is using this camera to record videos:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PXVNJV03XQEH/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004J3V90Y&nodeID=&linkCode=&sourceid=mh.ds&tag=kefauca-20

As you can see, the T3i definitely delivers in picture quality and video. Its Live Mode is great for videos and can help when composing shoots from various angles.

I found also that you can get it at a good price from here:

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-T3i-Digital-Imaging-18-55mm/dp/B004J3V90Y/ref=zg_bs_281052_1/184-7731940-3512404&sourceid=mh.ds&tag=kefauca-20


Does the megapixel of a digital camera affect the video quality it can take?
Q. My buddy says that the higher the megapixel a digital camera has, the better quality video it takes. I was not sure how true that statement was. Can anybody clear this up for me?

A. No its totally different.

To keep it simple.

Digital still cameras were designed to take still pictures, or still photography. Here they use the term Megapixels for the capability(number of sensor elements) of the camera to capture data of an image taken. The bigger or higher megapixels, the better or higher amount of data recorded.

This doesn't mean that the image is good right away. It just means that your digital still camera is capable of capturing such and such amount of data. There are several factors that contribute to a "good quality image"; lens is a big factor.

Now having said that, the manufacturers of these still cameras decided to thrown in a little feature called video recording with optional audio for some.

You have to remember that the first digital cameras, Sony Mavica were based on video technology. They were actually considered digital video cameras that shot still images and stored them in floppy disks.

Now even though having internal organs capable of recording videos, our digital still cameras were designed to record still images.

The factors that would ensure quality video images are the sizes and the number of CCD's (Charged Coupled Device usually 3, thus the term 3CCD) and The bigger the CCD that is used, the better the color and image quality of the video. The bigger the hole in your wallet would be. The lens is also a big factor. For digital, its also compression; avi., mov. and now MPeg4.

With respect to the manufacturers of our digital cameras, the quality of the video that they capture is quite good. Many of the point and shoots have better video quality than our old video 8 or hi-8 cameras.

a 1GB SD card will hold about 14 mins of TV quality video.

I hope this helps Bud.





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