RE: Digital cameras

[Martin Greenwood <martin@xxxxxxx>]

>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).

Nik,

Looking at spec of yours it can do 640x480 but only at 7fps without
sound...so I guess as you say, the frame rate will let it down.

That why the Fuji (which claims 30fps at 640x480) sounds good. Also it
comes with 512M microdrive which is quite spacious.

>The better alternative might be to buy video camera, which can shoot
>stills.

Agreed, but I am looking for compact single solution, as otherwise I
wouldn't use it that often, which defeats the object.

Thanks for comments, any other suggestions welcomed.

Martin