Sony Video Camera

[Richard92c2]

I'm in search of some advice please,

I have a Sony HandyCam (SONY DCR-PC110E) but cant seem to get it to take a decent still picture, They look great on the screen on the camera but crap once downloaded to the PC (I've tried the firewire and USB methods). The camera is supposed to be Broadcast quality, I presume this would include the ability to produce a high resolution (megapixel image quality) digital "still" picture??

I would appreciate any and all advice !!!

Thanks




>>> Edited by Richard92c2 on Monday 17th February 12:20

[kevinday]

I have a Sony but do not use it for stills, got a proper camera for that type of thing. Not much help I'm afraid.

[roop]

I've found that DV stills roughly equate to the resolution of a 0.4 - 0.5 megapixel digital camera. Some newer DV cameras have a seperate stills function that allows you to put megapixel quality images onto SD/MMC cards etc.

[sparks]

The CCD is *just* megapixel. The spec says 1152 x 864 for stills, which is not great. My Sony (cheap digital 8) takes very poor stills, but then the ccd is not as good.

It may also be that if the light is bad, with no flash (unless it has one) you are getting 'camera shake'.

Check the manual, and maybe try www.dvdoctor.com and ask them.

HTH

Sparks

[m-five]

It will be broadcast quality for video, i.e. the same resolution as your TV (about 640x576).

This resolution is far from ideal for photographs, even the cheapest digital stills camera does better than that now!