How will still images captured from video look on the web?
You can see an XL1 image I created on the right. For the XL1 (which is the only camera I own), this varies depending on whether you used Frame Movie Mode or Regular video mode. With digital SLRs reasonably affordable, I no longer recommend this technique for images that are not cut out of moving video. At the same time, I also found that you can cut memorable stills out of your video when you’re shooting live action, and I still recommend doing that. Just don’t try to print the images; they won’t look good. My Koi Carp pictures were done in frame movie mode, and the only blurring was when my pictures were out of focus.
Check out an easily updatable list of DV capture sites, to which you can add your own. For the XL1 (which is the only camera I own), this varies depending on whether you used Frame Movie Mode or Regular video mode. My Cricket Productions web site has some video captures made in regular movie mode. It took quite a bit of culling to find the captures that weren’t blurry; although the video looked uniformly beautiful, many of the captures were somewhat fuzzy. On the other hand, my Koi Carp pictures were done in frame movie mode, and the only blurring was when my pictures were out of focus.
