still pix resolution?
 

the still picture that can be captured with the PD150 - does anyone know the equivilant resolution as compared to digital still cameras? 2meg? 3meg? more?

thanks.

Bobby

About 1 mega pixel. The camera is intended for video, not still photography. The extra resolution would be wasted on video.

If you shoot progressive scan (PS) to tape the resolution will be 720 x 576 (less than half a mega-pixel) but it's better than the 640x 480 that you get to Memorystick.

I know it sounds pretty awful in these days of mega-pixel digital still cameras, but few of them have 12x zooms, three chips, Steady shot and so on. The stills from my VX2k defy the pixel count, and I can shoot in motor-drive PS mode all day long.

tom.

Actually, even though the DV recording on tape will contain slightly more pixels, if you capture a still image off the tape to any J-PEG medium, it will end up with only 640 X 480, the same as if you directly capture to the Memory Stick. However, some computer-based capture systems may have a lower (better) compression ratio than the in-camera J-PEG memory capture. Therefore, going from tape directly by FireWire to a computer and bypassing the Memory Stick, may give a better result. You might also go directly from tape to one of the uncompressed still picture formats, for highest quality, although the 640 X 480 pixel-size limit still applies. If you used the memory mode in the camera with its J-PEG compression, the uncompressed still formats in a computer wouldn't have as much with which to work.

Steve McDonald