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Old January 13th 06, 08:52 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,rec.video
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Default Avoid the Canon Powershot A620 digital camera

Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
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Try using it for what it was designed for.

I did. It's designed for still *and* movies.

I agree with everyone saying that a still camera is *mainly* intented for
still pictures, while a camcorder is mainly designed for movies.So none does
both in excellence.My digital still camera (Kodak CX 7300) only takes silent
video and worse than an 1981 camcorder, but this never bothers me as it's
quite sympathetic even that bad video for my cousins in Canada, to see my
sister's fiancee brother playing the piano.For *real*movies I have the 8mm
Sony CCD-TR425E pal which is even today excellent.Of course it's no good for
overseas relatives since VCRs in USA and Canada don't playback PAL cassetes,
I asked'em.


Some of the newer digital cameras make excellent short videos. You
might check out the Kodak C330, which does full motion VGA video an
allows many options while shooting. Or go with the P850 which does
great stills, and great video. If you don't want to carry both types of
camera around, the ability to do good video and stills in one camera is
a nice feature.