"dj_nme" <jeffreybd@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:40e92b47$0$25459$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Pipper wrote:
> <snip earlier dicussion>
> >>>In its native  STILL mode it is ok, very rarely need to edit any of the
> >>>photos.  In addition to the other faults the video mode records
> >
> > everything
> >
> >>>too dark, and every video has to be edited to lighten them up.  The
> >
> > video
> >
> >>>function is shite unless used in bright daylight.
> >>
> >>I have used s variety of digital cameras as low-res* video cameras.
> >>The bast ones I've used are the Aiptek mini-dv line.
> >>Regardless of this, all of them play back showing the tool icons on the
> >>TV screen.
> >>My assumption has always been that this is just a method of checking
> >>what's recorded (like a clearer viewfinder option), because most of the
> >>digicams (that I've used) came with video editing software of various
> >>levels of quality and that you could burn the video to DVD, VCD or SVCD
> >>and then watch it on any TV attached to a DVD player.
> >>
> >>My primary digital still camera is a Minolta Dimage 7I.
> >>This can do 30 second video clips, but why bother?
> >>As a still camera (I think at least) it is pretty darn good, but as a
> >>camcorder it leaves much to be desired.
> >>
> >>*by "low res" I mean 320x240, which gives (surprisingly) clear video in
> >>good lighting conditions.
> >
> > Well this c765 with the 256mb card will do 12.5 minutes on 320x240
>
> My D-7i will only do 30 second "bursts" of video recording and probably
> would fit just as much as yours onto a CF card of the same size.
> The Dimage 7i is primarily an "slr style" still camera and for that it
> is idealy created.
>
> My Aiptek DV2 records in 320x240 avi at about 12 fps, great for that
> arty "pixelcam" style of movie, about the same as an old mini-vhs
> camcorder (with added motion-blur).

My c765 will do video upto 640x480 res.  It saves it as a quicktime file.