Re: High speed camera vs. HD video

"AKA gray asphalt" <benvhoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Is there a difference between quick still cameras and
> HD video? How big of enlargements can you get from
> the video?
>
> Thanks, I'm thinking about a small wedding
> photo business.
>

The resolution of HD does not compare to the resolution of a typical 10 or

12 million pixel SLR camera. Again noise is worse (as are point and
shoots) 
focus and exposure accuraccy has little creative control in comparison.

But forgetting about image quality and thinking only about pixels then I 
think that of all the HD standards 1920 wide is the biggest HD resolution
So 
at 300dpi for a photograph on priont with good quality then that would be 
6.4 inches... Hardly wedding photo territory! You could print at double
that 
size at 150 dpi but thats only practical where the source photograph is of

superb quality of the sort you could get with some skill on a modern SLR 
camera with good optics. Its not likely to be that good from a consumer 
level HD camera. Or close to it.

A D300 Nikon for eg makes 4288  wide images. So 14 inches wide at 300 DPI.

but because image quality is good (lower noise, sharper, better exposed, 
coirrectly focussed compared to a consumer HD vid camera) it can often
print 
at 150 DPI and still look great. Especially if upsampled correctly. So 30
x 
20 prints are quite possible with excellent quality.