digital camera vs mini dv with photo

1. Consumer DV camcorders (VIDEO) with photomode is always inferior to
digicam (PHOTO/STILL IMAGE). If you want high-end digital stills, you
cannot consider consumer/medium priced camcorder, you can get reasonable
still image quality from professional camcorders but why waste money?
Photomode is a very very convenient feature, found on almost all DV
camcorders these days, but it's rare to be equal to a good dedicated camera.

2. Also, you digicam-crazed people should remember that good old Film
resolution is 19-21 Megapixel (or more with good film) and color rendition
is much better than digitals. First there's no suich thing as 20Mpx digicam
yet and if there's it would cost like a car, and the highest I've seen is 12
megapixel, so for the ultimate quality film is unbeatable and that I expect
to last for the next several years. Now of course few people need 20
megapixel because film was invented over 100 years ago was meant to be
enlarged, only film (not digital camera) can give you 2 by 3 feet poster
from a photo hehehe...
So I am not advising you to stay away from digitals and buy film for the
highest quality, because few of you will blow up your photos to 10 feet.
For a 7 by 5 inches cards, a 4Mpixel digtical will be equal to film, no
difference can be seen.

As for me, I have Canon ElphII APS film camera AND Elura50 miniDV camcorder,
I have both worlds excpet I am not too stupid to pay $500 for a digicam when
I get much beter in a 100 dollar conventional film camera and my scanner is
Canon LiDE50 one inch thick or so, sucks power from USB2, u;traportable
2400dpi OPTICAL/HARDWARE resolution, serves me better than digicam. And for
quick work-related (Engineering) or etc. digital photos I shoot with Elura
camcorder.
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if you want a long zoom camera, check out olympus c-7xx series (10x zoom).
panasonic has a 12x zoom (!!!) but unfortunately few manual controls. fuji
also has 6x zoom.


"Bhaskar" <bhaskarannadata DeleteThis @yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > Hi,
 > I am thinking of buying a digital camera, willing to spend upto 500
 > euros. Purpose: I like photograpy(ameteur) and would love to take good
 > quality pictures. I want a decent camera with good memory (not willing
 > to spend money on flash immeditely).
 > I guess it is better to take something better than 3X optical zoom.
 > What other features should I look for. What about the mini dv
 > camcoders with photo features that come in sub 500 euro range... will
 > they be good enough for photograpy.
 > Would be very happy if ppl could recoment specific model (and why it
 > is good).
 > Thanks in advance.
 > -Bhaskar<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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