Which is better to buy still digital camera or digital camcorder?

by neonbubble

Which is better to buy?Still digital camera or digital camcorder?Both have nearly same price.But camcorder can capture still images and also record with resonable resolution. in the additional side still digital camer can only capture still images with also resonable resloution,even if the resolution is better like (8Mpixel) I will never use this resoultion because the image size will be very huge which is not excellent for me.

Answer by The Lord V
It all depends what you need it for. I personallly use both, you never know what event or fascinating time your going to have.

Answer by anon51
I recently got a Pentax Optio at Costco on sale, this is a 7 megapixel digital camera, impressive resolution. It can also take a record at DiVX format, now that is a high resolution compress record. A 2Gb SD card can hold more than an hour and a half of record.

Nowadays digital camera record capturing is getting better, but the record camera still photography have a long way to go.

Answer by Cap
Its not honest to compare the photo taken from a still camera with persons taken with a digital camcorder. They made for different purposes. Normally speaking, the CCD (light sensor) that came with camcorder only have to handle resolution of 720X480 pixel for NTSC record or 1024X768 for NTSC High-def. But for digital camera, the higher the resolution, the more detail of the still images. Its a lot simpler for a digital camera to downsize the resolution for record than a camcorder to up-size its resolution for still images.

Back to your question. If the still image size is not a concern for you at all (we are talking about 1-2MPixel here at most). Go for a camcorder, it produce much better record for you than a digital camera can. Most of the digital camera has only limited record features and you can’t store much record in a digital camera. Some won’t even allow you to zoom when in record mode. But of course, its better to take still image with a camera and take record with camcorder. After-all, that’s what they’re made for.

Answer by Mr.
just get a digital camcorder that would do the trick and make sure it has a snapshot button on it somewhere. i have a samsung digital camcorder 880x zoom and 22x optical. i got over at circuit city 2 years ago and it has 2.5 lcd and a 6sec snapshot (for still images) to take photos the only business im missing on mine is an infrared feature. mine was only $ 230 and im pleased with it.

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Panasonic SDR-S50A Std-Def SD Camcorder with 78X Zoom & Wide angle Lens (Blue)

• Uses SD/SDHC and SDXC memory cards (not built-in)
• 2-11/16″ widescreen LCD
• 78X optical zoom lens (digital zoom to 3500X)
• Optical image stabilization
• High-speed USB interface

Advanced Optical 78X Zoom with OIS Your image is stabilized even at the longest zoom 33mm Wide-angle Lens New, wider angle lens let you fit even more of your subjects into the record Intelligent Auto with AE/AF Tracking Confidently record as the camera automatically adjusts settings such as exposure and focus Blue

List Price: $ 229.00

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