RE: Digital cameras

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin,
I have Minolta D'image 7i, which is 5 megapixels all singing and
dancing, best reviews etc., but movies are still crap.
It's not bad for quick movies for web, or e-mails, but it cannot be
compared with proper DV camera. It's not the resolution, but the
framerate.
To be honest, I used default settings only, I can try to play with it
tonight, but I think that the problem is speed at which it can write to
memory (Compact Flash in my case). And also it consumes a lot of memory
(but you know that).
The better alternative might be to buy video camera, which can shoot
stills.
There are now 2 on the market, which can take 2 Mpixel images, latest
Sony, and now JVC GRP-DV9. I bought the latest recently (first shipped
to UK just month ago).
Again it's not perfect, video is excellent, but stills are a bit blurry
if not taken on sunshine. Sony's model has built in flash, which you
really need for shots inside, while JVD doesn't. Hovever, I vent for
JVC, because it was cheaper and smaller (even smaller then my Minolta)
so I can carry it around in my trousers' pocket. But you can put flash
on JVC one.
Cheers Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Greenwood [mailto:martin@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 May 2003 14:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Digital cameras



Any thoughts on digital cameras, like the Sony DSC-P8? or the Fuji M603?
Looking for 3M+ pixels and some optical zoom with movie mode.

These both allow 640x480 movies with sound. Any comments on movie
quality?
Looking for replacement for both video camera (as I never bothered to
take
8mm video camera anywhere) and still camera.
Obviously there is a compromise but both of these seem to have quite
mild
compression.

Thanks,

Martin