Bates wrote:
> On Jun 14, 8:45 am, mike bishop <m....TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the main difference between these a
>> video camera and a digital camera that has a video function?
>>
>> I'm looking to buy some kind of camera with which to videotape myself
>> talking, in order to assess my body language and so on. I'm not sure which
>> kind of camera to go for.
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Well there are several things but I'll give you a couple that might
> matter to you:
>
> 1. still cameras tend to have limited capacity - say 4GB and in many
> cases cannot fill all of that up with a continuous movie. Dedicated
> video cameras however use tapes, DVDs or hard drives give you anywhere
> from 4 to 40GB of storage space which can be used for continuous movie
> shooting.
>
> 2. Dedicated video cameras often have remote controls that allow you
> to control the camera while you are taping. If you are trying to
> videotape yourself, you can turn the LCD screen toward you and use the
> remote to compose the picture etc...
>
> Bates....
>
In short, has anyone ever built a house using a Swiss army knife? Issues
like this one always remind me of a column in now-defunct U. S. Camera
around 50 years ago. A columnist devoted an entire column to the subject
of multi-purpose devices, His conclusion: the only one he had ever used
that served all functions well was the Church key. (For relative
newborns: that was a device that had a bottle opener on one end and a
puncture-type can opener on the other.)
Allen
>> Stay informed about: Video camera -vs- digital camera with video function 
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