Dudley Hanks wrote:
> The best trade-off I know of is the Canon Powershot S5. It does 8Meg
> stills, and has stereo sound with the video clips. But, the clips are
> limited to 4Gigs (about 33 minutes at high quality).
It also has 12x zoom that you can use while recording, unlike many
digicams.
You can zoom at one of two speeds, depending on how hard you pull the zoom
lever, and it's completely silent (and it records in stereo). Of course,
some videocams zoom to around 30x.
The older Canon S3 is a cheaper alternative to the S5 but has a smaller
LCD
screen. Both the S3 and the S5 are good bridge cameras with most of the
features of the DSLR but with a smaller sensor. Their only drawback IMO is
that you get a fair bit of noise at 400 ISO and up. There is a hack you
can
load that can perform in-camera noise reduction, and it gives good enough
results.
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