XHA for still photography?
I've never used my XHA1 to take still photos. Has anyone used theirs for this and if so, what the quality of the photo?
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Hi Kevin. I tried taking some still pictures at an indoor event recently. The resolution is not very high and the pictures were fairly noisy. You would be a lot better off buying a small digital camera for stills.
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I agree with Richard, although it's better than nothing, and is acceptable as long as your expectations are in line with the camera's capabilities. I don't know that the results are any better than grabbing a good frame of video though. Also, with video frame capture, you get image stabilization - I'm not sure it works when taking stills...
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The stills aren't too bad. The resulting pix is 1920 x 1080, giving you a roughly 1.2mb file. Overall picture quality (especially skin tones) is very dependant on camera set up and available light. Get the exposure right and they're quite usable, otherwise needs a bit of tricking up in photoshop.
Stills taken from frame grabs are lower resolution. Pix size is 848 x 480, file size about 180kb. Not much good for anything apart from low quality web work. |
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Richard |
Kevin,
I've used mine for still photography with just about every gig. All of the artwork I do for covers and the like is still frames from HDV. I have had my still frames published in magazines and newspapers in lieu of digital photographs. I think the quality is honestly just fine. They won't blow up too big or hold up without alot of light, but you shouldn't be shooting without proper light anyway. Bill |
If shootin in 60i you can get some great stills from the footage. I use a program called Topaz Moment. Not near as good as stuff shot on my Still camera but usually more than good enough for web.
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I have used mine a lot to capture stills fromvideo, and for that it works great.
I have also used it for limited still photography and find the results ok. Certainly better than a lot of lower end digital cams, but nothing like my 40-D. It does OK if your goal is web work, or putting the results in a Powe Point presentation. It's definately a "plus" that helps set it apart from some of its competition. |
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