It depends on what you are doing with the video. Most digital video when its in its finale state plays at close to 30 frames per second. So shooting at 30fps is ideal. MOst DV is shot in 60i which it two sets of 30fps interlaced together. Any camera that shoots faster than 30fps, when the footage is plays back on a normal timeline will be in slowmotion. High speed cameras can shoot thousands of frames a second and you get super smooth perfect slowmotion, however that does not effect the picture quality.
If you shoot 2 frames per second with a slow shutter, say in a city at night, and speed it up in a 30fps timeline, you will have fast motion with cool streaky lights. It will look smoother than speeding up normal night footage.
Well… Maybe.
But i’m not sure if smoothness is part of quality… of picture quality.
If you take the whole video quality, then even sound belongs there, so who knows… :o
I don’t know man, it’s hard to tell.
Yes it is an exaggerated example, although the figures aren’t. My point was things like battery life, storage media, size, robustness, sound recording quality all are vital factors. In these factors my camera sucks i.e., you need to plug it in, you need two computers to run it, its friggin big, i really wouldn’t drop it and it doesn’t do sound.
I use it for filming the fuel injection and combustion in spark ignition engines, not Macro but the resolution drops dramatically at higher speeds, it’s the Phantom V7.1 if anyone wants to get one.
wow.
i didnt think this thread would make this much conversation in a day.
some of the stuff is just to technical and too much to consider i just want a good quality camera that will record a nice vid. but i guess i need…
.good FPS
. good CCD (or something)
. and maybe good lenses
anywayz ill rent it weekly, i dont want to buy one too expensive
ill tell the salesman what i want to do and im sure hell help me.
and recording on cameras is crap i think and the fiile type is .MOV
i hope the file type isnt that with a Movie camera cos .MOV duznt go into wmm (widows movie maker).
It does for me, but you don’t get sound. There are programs out there that you can use to convert the files into a different format; sacfricing some quality.