Is this a good digital camera or not?
Question: I just bought a Canon ZR500 camcorder and know little about theswcritters. The specs can be found at . http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/contro...
From the look of the specs, I assume it's a 6.8 mega pixel camera. I guess a 6.8 is a fair amount of resolution for a camcorder?
I'm a 35mm man and a Nikon one at that, with a high-end Nikon 35mm, tons of lenses for it that I rarely use anymore and a Nikon digital still camera.
This cam uses digital tape. I've been told some take cards, hard drives, tape or discs. Which is the better? For the price, is this a good camera for general purpose usage? I do have 30 days to return it if I don't care for it.
The draw backs I've seen so is that it's designed for the right hand. .
If opinions are I can do better for the money, give me examples and I'll consider trading in or up for the better model. I have 30 days to return this one.
Answers: It's 680,000 pixels thats 0.68 MP which is sufficient for a video camera. You only need 340,000 for SD television.
It's not a bad camera. Canon has a full 1 year warranty, if I recall. Everyone else is 90 days labor and 1 year parts.
You're not going to get a lot more until you get up to the XL-2 which can use the Rebel lenses with an adapter but thats $3,000.
This is a good solid camera and as good as anything else under $2,000
I was told it has a mic input, but I didn't see that in the spec sheet.
I don't know where I'm a Photographer got his idea from, I've never heard of film being 17,000 DPI
Generally 12 MP equals or exceeds 100 ISO negative film.
And he's talking stills not movies.
HD TV and DLP movie projectors are all 2MP, although they are trying to move to 4MP at some theaters.
While your camcorder fall short of that, SD resolution of a normal TV set is 1/3 MP or 333,000 pixels (1 million color dots)
That Canon is good enough to produce Cable Access if you're careful.
im a photographer.
video is recorded at 640 x 480, regardless of what resolution your camera is capable of. 6.8 meg res is fair for a camera, though not good... it displays perfectly on a telly or monitor, but print it, and above 10x8 its awful. no acutance.
a neg is typically 17000 dpi, look waht you get out of 35mm film at that size, and its still reasonably sharp, so youll understand why low resolutions dont make good blow ups...
take it back, and buy a 10 megapixel samsung, which also does 0 lux video onto a memory card it does live preview and has a 2 1/2 inch screen.
personally ill stick with my Om4ti and my 8 megapixel olympus E500.... which doesnt do video, but compensates with 3FPS at 8mp, or 18 minutes on auto at F22, with shutter speeds upto 4000/1... its an incredible tool, and since buying it last year i havent picked up 35mm... i even do digital weddings these days....
From the look of the specs, I assume it's a 6.8 mega pixel camera. I guess a 6.8 is a fair amount of resolution for a camcorder?
I'm a 35mm man and a Nikon one at that, with a high-end Nikon 35mm, tons of lenses for it that I rarely use anymore and a Nikon digital still camera.
This cam uses digital tape. I've been told some take cards, hard drives, tape or discs. Which is the better? For the price, is this a good camera for general purpose usage? I do have 30 days to return it if I don't care for it.
The draw backs I've seen so is that it's designed for the right hand. .
If opinions are I can do better for the money, give me examples and I'll consider trading in or up for the better model. I have 30 days to return this one.
Answers: It's 680,000 pixels thats 0.68 MP which is sufficient for a video camera. You only need 340,000 for SD television.
It's not a bad camera. Canon has a full 1 year warranty, if I recall. Everyone else is 90 days labor and 1 year parts.
You're not going to get a lot more until you get up to the XL-2 which can use the Rebel lenses with an adapter but thats $3,000.
This is a good solid camera and as good as anything else under $2,000
I was told it has a mic input, but I didn't see that in the spec sheet.
I don't know where I'm a Photographer got his idea from, I've never heard of film being 17,000 DPI
Generally 12 MP equals or exceeds 100 ISO negative film.
And he's talking stills not movies.
HD TV and DLP movie projectors are all 2MP, although they are trying to move to 4MP at some theaters.
While your camcorder fall short of that, SD resolution of a normal TV set is 1/3 MP or 333,000 pixels (1 million color dots)
That Canon is good enough to produce Cable Access if you're careful.
im a photographer.
video is recorded at 640 x 480, regardless of what resolution your camera is capable of. 6.8 meg res is fair for a camera, though not good... it displays perfectly on a telly or monitor, but print it, and above 10x8 its awful. no acutance.
a neg is typically 17000 dpi, look waht you get out of 35mm film at that size, and its still reasonably sharp, so youll understand why low resolutions dont make good blow ups...
take it back, and buy a 10 megapixel samsung, which also does 0 lux video onto a memory card it does live preview and has a 2 1/2 inch screen.
personally ill stick with my Om4ti and my 8 megapixel olympus E500.... which doesnt do video, but compensates with 3FPS at 8mp, or 18 minutes on auto at F22, with shutter speeds upto 4000/1... its an incredible tool, and since buying it last year i havent picked up 35mm... i even do digital weddings these days....
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