sony cybershot dsc-s650
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phenom5
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I know, it sucks, but it's the truth. That camera works fine for family get togethers or vacation, but it doesn't take picture of a reef tank worth a damn.
My previous camera was a little Canon Powershot. It was a far better camera. With the most of the canon's you can manually adjust a lot more of the settings then you can with the Sony. It takes some work, but you can get some decent pictures. The preset settings that the Sony has are just worthless.
Depends on how much you want to spend, but you can find a solid Canon P&S for a reasonable price. From what I've been told the G-series is your best bet.
I'm going to bite the bullet myself, and buy a DSLR.
phenom5
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Honestly, I'm barely above novice status myself. I've been looking into buying a new camera, because I own that Sony, and I can't take pictures of my tank with it.
I have no idea about the quality of still taken from an HD video camera. If I had to guess though, I would imagine they wouldn't be the best quality.
Reef Bass
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Generally speaking, stills from video are a lower resolution. If a video camera is shooting true HD at 1920x1080, that's much less resolution than straight up digital cameras. My Canon point and shoot creates 3264x2448 images and my Canon dSLR 4752x3168.
If shooting videos is your thing, get the camcorder. If quality still images are what you're after, go with the camera.
The blue pics are a result of shooting under high color temperature lighting. The various exposure presets (action / landscape / indoors / etc) don't deal with that. Even if a camera has white balance presets they rarely go above 10,000K while reef lighting can be as high as 20,000K. The ideal solution is to shoot in RAW mode and set the color temperature in post processing software. Not all cameras can shoot in RAW mode, so that's something to investigate while comparing features.
If shooting videos is your thing, get the camcorder. If quality still images are what you're after, go with the camera.
The blue pics are a result of shooting under high color temperature lighting. The various exposure presets (action / landscape / indoors / etc) don't deal with that. Even if a camera has white balance presets they rarely go above 10,000K while reef lighting can be as high as 20,000K. The ideal solution is to shoot in RAW mode and set the color temperature in post processing software. Not all cameras can shoot in RAW mode, so that's something to investigate while comparing features.
