>> 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.
Agree with all that. I've just shot a very satisfactory short video on my
S2IS. Yes noise is an issue in low light, but the image stabilisation is
excellent and it does quite good macro. No mic socket though.
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