[Abhijit Sur]

Good digital camera of 5 megapixel or more with 1GB card is useful for taking video clips also. Why one buys Sony hanycam for the same price. Can anyone tell for movie clips what are the major advantages of movie camera over digital camera?

[Somnath]

Sound and built in features for effects (not in all movie cam) and sometimes zoom. My personal choice would be a good digital cam + higher memory card.

[john.sw]

My digital camera takes 640 X 480 fine mode video - the quality is excellent and looks the same as video shot on a video camera.

However, there is no zoom and on a 1GB card I can only take 12 minutes of film so it is a bit of a compromise.

My advice would be: if you mostly want to make videos, buy a video camera, and if you mostly want to take photographs, buy a digital camera.

[Mercurie]

In my opinion, there is a big difference between Digital Still and Video cameras.  They both are meant for their own specific purposes.  A good video camera with 3 MP still camera feature would, certainly, serve both the purposes up to some extent, whereas a Digital Camera not.  The video quality of Digital Camera is very poor and when it comes zoom, its really bad.  Also, if you opt for finer quality video in Digital Camera, even 1 GB card is not enough.

Mercurie.

[dani]

I vote for digicam! Why? Because videos need MUCH more postprocessing time..

[Abhijit Sur]

Thanks for all the guidance. The problem is that I have got one Sony Handycam 42E with 1.1 Megapixel and 13X zoom. I have one Cannon 50T film camera also(SLR). What type of digital camera should I buy? I really love the stills of digital camera. I can't sacrifice the film camera too!!

[rishabh6296]

Hi abhijit,
you can go for either sony cybershot or kodak easyshare;as a matter of fact for 20,000 rupees you can get a 5-6 MP camera with 10X optical zoom in kodak also they have introduced the first dual lense digicam in the world which is available for 22 k.

[Abhijit Sur]

rishabh6296, on Jul 3 2006, 05:52 PM, said:

Hi abhijit,
you can go for either sony cybershot or kodak easyshare;as a matter of fact for 20,000 rupees you can get a 5-6 MP camera with 10X optical zoom in kodak also they have introduced the first dual lense digicam in the world which is available for 22 k.

My pocket may not permit now. Suggest something cheaper. 6MP Nikon with 10X zoom is Rs !4000 here.

[Somnath]

Abhijit Sur, on Jul 3 2006, 11:57 PM, said:

6MP Nikon with 10X zoom is Rs !4000 here.

http://www.jjmehta.c...ncoolpixs4.html - this one?  

Go for it......

[Abhijit Sur]

Somnath, on Jul 4 2006, 06:27 AM, said:

http://www.jjmehta.c...ncoolpixs4.html - this one?  

Go for it......

Yes . this one.

[dani]

Abhijit Sur, on Jul 3 2006, 08:27 PM, said:

6MP Nikon with 10X zoom is Rs !4000 here.

That's a fine cam, a friend of mine bought it and is so far completely happy.

[Abhijit Sur]

One of friend just purchased the same Nikkon Coolpix S4. He is not happy with the movie shots especially indoor eventhough rooms are well lighted. Can anyone help?