Digital camera or video camera?

JoseChungsDoomsday

Hey folks
I'm looking to get a new camera as my current one is a 4 megapixel monster and was wondering if I should look into a video camera instead.

I'm looking to make short videos (maybe 4 mins at a time), my current camera does this pretty well but the mic is awful and picks almost nothing up. So do any of you have any recommendations?

Thanks!

JoseChungsDoomsday

bump! :money:

f1charlie

If you want to make videos, then get a video camera. I would imagine even the cheapest decent brand video camera is going to produce better videos than any still camera.

ckerrd

If sound is important then make sure you get a camera with the ability to take an external mic (or mics). And if you want to make videos get a video camera

Tasleo

You can use a video camera as most decent ones allow you to take stills anyway.

itm2

This one's hard to get hold of at the moment, and is apparently quite fiddly to use, but gets favourable reviews for image quality when compared with the Sanyo:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0702/07022203canontx1.asp

Little_John

f1chalie is spot on, buy a video camera for video and a still camera for stills.

There are a few video cams that will take stills but the quality of the ones I looked at about 8 months ago were great for video but still were a waste of time.