I would like to purchase a camcorder or camera for capturing high resolution stills from video in those situations where still photography is not permitted during a wedding ceremony, and video is.
Anyone have any recommendations? Something in the $550-$750 range.
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Re: Need camcorder for stills, what do you recommend?
My best advice is ask whoever is incharge of the wedding to allow you to shoot. Stills from video cameras, even at the best, are a poor substitute for a proper still camera.
Re: Need camcorder for stills, what do you recommend?
I agree 100% with David. I spent quite a bit of time in videography before returning to still photography. There's no video camera in that price range that will come anywhere close to producing the same quality of still image as even a modest dslr.
The exception today comes at a much higher price bracket. High-end HD and some HDV video cameras can produce some very good still frames. But we're talking about a much more expensive and involved rig.
Re: Need camcorder for stills, what do you recommend?
Maybe you can tell us what, specifically, he is objecting to?
One would think that a video camera would be as much an invasion of privacy as a still camera, so that probably isn't the problem.
Is it that there is a professional wedding photographer involved, and he was requested that none of the family or guests bring cameras? That would strike me as a bit too much, but that could be it.
Or, could it be that the minister is concerned about flash photography disturbing the ceremony, and figures that by banning still cameras, has succeeded in squelching that (what, I imagine is the hired professional using? Very few will dispense entirely with flash, unless it is specifically forbidden during the ceremony).
Finally, the subject of noise (of the shutter mechanism) was touched on, and apparently discarded. Digicams can be made to operate completely noiselessly, by turning off their cartoon-like sound effects, so I guess that couldn't be it.
Not quite 20 questions, but I guess it will do.
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