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Digital cameras: Digital camera zoom while RECORDING video
Digital camera zoom while RECORDING video
by dtaylor569 - 8/13/09 10:32 AMI'm a serious amateur photographer. Which compact digital cameras (HD and non HD)priced under $300 allow optical zoom while RECORDING in video mode? Some cameras (HD & non-HD)can be switched into video mode, but when the camera begins RECORDING in video mode, the zoom doesn't work. I'll be happy if I get a digital that zooms while recording, but an HD would be great!
Some of the CNET reviews comment on this feature; some do not. Does the absence of a comment mean that the camera allows zoom while RECORDING in video mode?
The only one I've noticed that zooms while RECORDING video is the canon SD1200 IS. I'd like a larger selection, of couse - does anyone have any info?
Video and Zoom
by snapshot2
- 8/13/09 2:55 PM
In reply to: Digital camera zoom while RECORDING video by dtaylor569
You need to know why most cameras will not let you zoom during video.
Noise ... Audible noise.
The Microphone on the camera will hear the zoom motor when it operates.
Most digital cameras that let you zoom during video will have some noise you will hear when playing back the video.
The only exception is the silent zoom motor used by Canon on some of its more expensive models.
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Digital Camera Zoom while recording video
by dtaylor569 - 8/18/09 9:58 AM In reply to: Video and Zoom by snapshot2
Thank you for the answer. Are there any other digital cameras that will zoom while recording videe?
Zoom Video
by snapshot2 - 8/18/09 2:52 PM
In reply to: Digital Camera Zoom while recording video by dtaylor569
I don't know of any database that has that information.
I did a search in this Forum and here are 3 that people said could zoom while video recording:
Olympus stylus 710
Kodak V1253
Sony H20
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Many Do!
by MaxxFordham - 10/13/09 3:05 AM In reply to: Digital camera zoom while RECORDING video by dtaylor569Hmm, as I've seen it, there are MANY digital cameras that will do optical zooming while recording video. Sony DCR-TRV900, DSR-PD150, HDR-HC1-9; Panasonic Varicam, Ikegami, Hitachi, you name it; the list goes on and on. And they zoom QUIETLY. These cameras are primarily video cameras. Some of these are purely camcorders, but some are dockable to recorders or other back ends. They're digital, and they're cameras. Digital cameras. Camcorders and other video cameras are obviously cameras! The digital ones are digital cameras (even if they don't have a still mode in them)!
However, it may sound like you might be wanting a digital STILL(!) camera whose video modes allow optical zooming while recording. Since these still cameras with video modes, along with camcorders, are digital cameras too, then that means that these STILL cameras are digital cameras, while today's video cameras are digital cameras, too.
So the point here is that it would make sense and be a good idea for you and many other people to be better at differentiating between digital video cameras and digital STILL(!) cameras (many of which you already know happen to have a video mode), by making sure you use the word STILL as part of the terminology (as in "digital STILL camera"). Don't you think so?
To all you people who don't say "digital STILL camera": Come on, is "still" SUCH a hard word to insert for a better distinction? It isn't really that hard, is it?
By the Way...
by MaxxFordham - 10/13/09 3:15 AM In reply to: Digital camera zoom while RECORDING video by dtaylor569Oh, and by the way, D. Taylor, you said, "I'll be happy if I get a digital that zooms while recording, but an HD would be great," as if "HD cameras aren't digital," like "digital vs. HD," but of course that's not true. For future reference, perhaps an accurate (and therefore, clear) way of saying that would be something like, "I'll be happy if I get one that can shoot SD video..." (standard definition) "...that optically zooms while recording, but an HD one would be great!" See, that way, it's not errantly implying as if there was "digital" and "HD."
To Maxx from the Forum Moderator
by snapshot2 - 10/13/09 1:40 PM
In reply to: By the Way... by MaxxFordham
For Your Information (FYI)
The Digital Camera Forum is for (Still) Digital Cameras.
The Camcorders Forum is for Video Cameras.
Here is a link to the Camcorders Forum:
http://forums.cnet.com/camcorders-forum/
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Digital Still camera zooms wile in record ode
by dtaylor569 - 10/13/09 1:48 PM In reply to: To Maxx from the Forum Moderator by snapshot2
Thanks for all replies. I bought the Sony H20 a couple of months ago.
But Still
by MaxxFordham - 10/13/09 6:35 PM In reply to: To Maxx from the Forum Moderator by snapshot2
Yeah, but still, foggy wording oughtta be cleared up anyway. Thanks, though...
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