What is a HD Digital Camera?
Is there such thing as HD digital camera? I thought 1080p = 1920×1080 = about 2 megapixel so wouldn’t a normal 7 megapixel camera surpass hd already? So how come there’s camera label hd still picture? I get the HD video part but not the still picture part.
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Be careful of marking gimmicks, because this can mean a couple different things:
1. Normal digital cameras usually shoot motion video at just 640 by 480, which is about the same as VHS or analog TV. Some video cameras shoot higher like 1280 by 720. This is good.
2. Some digital cameras are designed to connect directly to an HDTV to be viewed. These are otherwise ordinary cameras but are marketed as "HD" Clearly this is a marketing gimick for suckers.
You are right about the still images being a lot higher than HDTV though.
There is … it is the Red One
Here is a link.
http://www.red.com/cameras/
or you can rent it.
http://www.birnsandsawyer.com/cgibin/BIRstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=REDONE
And you are right. Still cameras have much more resolution than any video camera.
You are correct on the resolution part, but the HD designation basically means the camera will take pics that will fit the 16:9 ratio of the HDTVs or widescreen format. A normal camera will show a picture on your HDTV, but it will not fill up the whole screen unless you zoom in on it. I guess some cameras or HDTVs can do that.