"Lee Lindquist" <no@2

"Lee Lindquist" <no@2.spam> wrote in message news:fr5lvv8mmvjcal0uokmqcpamvg1id8mfak@4ax.com...

> I know less than nothing about this, but I'm hoping folks here can

> help me out.

> I've seen some video still that look really good - nearly as good as

> images from still digital cameras.

> What's the best equipment and method to get good images?

> I'm kind of assuming that I need a 3-chip camera in the $2-3K price

> range.

> Can I get good results by grabbing still frames from the video,

> or do I need to use the camera's "capture to memory card" technique

> only?

> Are there any web sites that have sample images?

> There's probably more that I need to know, that I don't even

> know to ask about!

You can find many video frame-grabs and video-still images

in various articles under the camcorder section of

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/articles.html - and all of the

images at www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/fs.htm were taken with

a video camera (3-CCD VX2000). Look also for the 3-D

images section on my web site (below), which were mostly

shot with 1-CCD megapixel camcorders. Bottom line, though,

is that *NO* video camera takes good images for paper prints,

but for web use, some take good images for screen display.

The best 640x480 images shot with the VX2000 can be

up-sampled well enough with Genuine Fractals to make

adequate 4x6/5x7 prints, if needed - but high-quality they

are not. The high pixel-count 1-CCD video images, if shot

above 640x480, tend to be excessively noisy...

David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com