j_yee Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I have been looking at digital camcorders with digital picture taking capabilities. Some of these camcorders have 5-10 mega-pixal capabilities. Has anyone used one? How good is the photo picture quality? The lure of these units is space and weight savings when going on trips. If the picture taking quality were excellent, then they'd be a double plus. I would be happy if they were close to their photo-only 10 mega-pixal point and shoots like the Powershot or Coolpix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Surf a video discussion forum like dvinfo.net or camcorderinfo.com. Surely somebody will have posted shots from whatever camcorder you choose to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_yee Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 That's the problem though. I haven't found any sample shots on the cam/dv sites. They are all focused on the video aspects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurent-paul Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 When shooting still images at high res, yes the quality is very close to a powershot actually. But the probalem is that usually a camcorder is a bit more difficult to handle than a pocket camera, as well as beeing bigger, taking more space ... I've had a a good camecorders for a long time, and tried to take a few stills now and then. The quality is good, but for me at least, it felt a bit too strange, and could't help everytime to switch to video, and then bought a pocket camera which I'm now using intensively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooltpmd Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Traditionally, the lens is OK on optical quality, individual frames don't require the same quality. And remember a bulk of your zoom will be digital zoom ... which will imact final quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert lee Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 "I have been looking at digital camcorders with digital picture taking capabilities." The problem is the small sensor size for consumer camcorders. The stills will tend to be very noisy. The other direction is worthy of consideration as well. I've been finding that current digicams can capture very competent video (but suffer other problems in actual use.) The bottom line though is that the highest quality video and the highest quality pictures still require dedicated equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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