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    Digital movies with camcordeer or SLR type

    As you probably figured out by the title, I am somewhat new to the digital world. My question is: What is the difference in quality, if any, in a movie taken with a run of the mill digital camcorder as oppposed to say a Konica Minolta Dimage Z2 SLR type camera?

    Would the Z2 be less clear, or jumpy etc.?
    How many FPS and resolution doesa camcorder operate at?
    Do you know of any articles along these lines?

    Any hellp would be apperciated.

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    Re: Digital movies with camcordeer or SLR type

    WHen shooting full motion video on a still, or a still on a video cam, you are always sacrificing. Keep them separate in their own medium. More MP for your stills and full motiion, 30 fps video on your camcorder.

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    Re: Digital movies with camcordeer or SLR type

    At the moment digital still cameras o not produce video of any significant quality, when compared to digital video cameras. Often the manufacturers will claim vhs quality but this is a bit of mathmatical tapdancing. on paper the still cameras record vhs quality as the image contains 640 by 480 dpi and this is roughly equivalent to vhs tape, also the cameras will record 25-30 fps, and bearing in mind that cinema projection works at 24fps again on paper this is ok quality, however the resultant video files are saved as mpeg, avi or quicktime files with a fairly high level of compression to get the ideo save a photo as a jpg file at the maximum compression level then re open it and compare it to the original file. this is to keep the file sizes to manageable levels. so whilst the numbers look ok the video itself does not. this is more obvious when you compare the fact that mini dv cameras record substantially higher quality levels than their digital still counterparts and there is no contest. if you are looking for a do everything device i have yet to see a good example with the exeption of a samsung camera that actually had two separate cameras and lenses built into the one chassis although this camera i a bit of an odity.

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