Want DigiCam w/ TIFF & MPEG?

[mark4man]

People,

I want to purchase a DigiCam that's around 4 megapixels.

It has support TIFF, as I want a lossless format; & it has to take movies w/ sound.

Is there anything out there that fits that bill…from the major mfg.’s?

Thanks,

mark4man

[Michael Fanelli]

People,

I want to purchase a DigiCam that's around 4 megapixels.

It has support TIFF, as I want a lossless format; & it has to take movies w/ sound.

Is there anything out there that fits that bill?from the major mfg.?s?
mark4man

You don't really want TIFF. Yeah, it's lossless but the files are huge. What you really want is a camera that can store RAW images, pretty much lossless "negatives" that are bigger than jpeg but a lot smaller than TIFF.

There may be a camera out there that does mpeg but the ones I've seen store files in AVI format. Look around, I don't pay a lot of attention to movie modes.

[mark4man]

Michael,

Thanks for the response. Did a bit of research on RAW format today...& yes, you're right...that would be fine (actually, preferable.)

But in going over lots of DigiCams, none of them seem to support both an uncompressed file format "&" movies w/ audio (& I don't really care if it's AVI or MPEG, as long as it has audio.)

And that's what I really need.

Thanks,

mark4man

[Michael Fanelli]

Michael,
But in going over lots of DigiCams, none of them seem to support both an uncompressed file format "&" movies w/ audio (& I don't really care if it's AVI or MPEG, as long as it has audio.)
mark4man

Which cameras are you looking at? Almost every consumer digicam I've seen has a movie mode. And none of them are silent. Let us know what you've looked at.