Movie Mode - How Good is it?

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A lot of manufactures make digital cameras with a movie mode or video camera capabilities (although limited), but are they any good?

Personally I feel that a camera is best for taking photographs and a video camera is best for shooting movies. Most video cameras have a still frame mode as a digital camera feature as well.

Although both of these types of cameras, digital camera or video camera are supposed to make life easier because they are 2 in 1, having each others features these addon functions to me never seem any good.

Video verses camera resolutions

For instance my camera has a movie mode option and I decided to take a look at the resolutions for both the movie mode and the photography mode.

video mode: 320 x 240 pixels
photography mode: 2560 x 1920 pixels

So from that you can see the difference in the quality of the shots that will be produced by both of these modes, the more pixels the better. The video mode being very poor.

I think at the end of the day it’s best to take both a digital camera and a video camera if you are looking to use both, and then you will get descent images from both. Although when I just want to capture the odd bit of video then I have found just using a digital cameras video mode to be fine.

Mandy

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