Hi, the other day I posted a link about the photojournalist David Turnley, who uses a Sony DV camera to make documentary films, and has posted some frames from them as stills in their own right. Here is the link again: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/dt01.htm.
I dug around a bit and found out that he used Sony DSR PD100A and DSR PD150 cameras, which appear to be top-of-the-range professional DV cameras. They seemed quite expensive to me until I considered that they're cheaper than say a Nikon D1X or the other high-end digital stills cameras. I can see a lot of advantages to shooting a burst of video rather than a few frames of stills, and if it's easy to get a high quality still out of the video burst, I wonder why anybody would use a stills camera if they have a DV camera like this? It seems to me that this turns on the issue of the quality of the output. Does anybody know how the quality of these things compares with high-end digital stills cameras? Any other issues to consider? Cheers, Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
