Moose,
good warning.
The S5 sounds good but does cost more, so we will just have to wait to see how
the SX100 compares
in a review. The 4Gb limit on SX is the clip size and the SX supports up to
32Gb cards, the S5
4G max.
The dppreview marketing specs says 640x480 resoultion available at 30fps on SX.
So it is possible
you might be right, you get only a 30min clip at highest quality on SX? If so,
not a big deal as
you could do 8 @ 30min clips on a 32G card.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082004canonsx100is.asp
Somebody else recomended using a video camera with still support. Although I
don't track these, my
reading of reviews in the past, is they really offer low quality stills.
Probably because of small
pixel interline sensors. In addition they seem to lack external flash
support,wide angle aux
lenses etc.
Tim Hughes
--- Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tim Hughes wrote:
> > .......
> > Interesting how the Powershot SX100 (8MP) is not only a p/s still camera,
> > but with a 4Gb card
> can
> > record 1hr of VGA resolutiuon video , not just a short video clip. This is
> > pretty attractive
> as I
> > occasionally land up on overseas trips carrying both a camera and a video
> > camera. At $300 this
> is
> > no more expensive than a low end video camera.
> >
> Look closely before you leap. The 'S' series has done this sort of thing
> for some time, and many other C and other brand P&Ss do fairly lengthy
> video. BUT, there are all sorts of limitations. On my A710 IS, and many
> other models, the zoom can't be used during video. Often metering and/or
> focus are fixed during "filming". On the 710, the metering seems to get
> dumber (maybe it just ignores EV offset) and the dynamic range poorer.
>
> The real champ appears to be the S5 IS. It has all it's functions
> available during video recording, IS, zoom, AF, etc. It's longest clip
> is 30 min. but that's 4gb at 30 fps.
> <http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/page8.asp> The SX100 60 mins.
> has to be either 15 fps (most likely) or much more compressed.
>
> The S5 is a 'real' video camera, with a separate shutter button for
> video. Set up for still and something pops up, just push the other
> button for video. It can which can also take a full rez still image in
> the middle, puch the other burron, with only a short drop out in the
> video. It's the one I'd go with for a combo at the moment.
>
> Moose
>
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