what is the difference between a camera,camcorder, and video camera?

Question

What is the difference between a digitalcamera, a camcorder, and a video camera?

Answer 1

Generally speaking:
A digital camera is a digital still camera, that is, it's primarily used for taking still images, although it may also be able to capture some video.

A camcorder is a combination camera and video recorder, as the name implies. Camcorder is a combination of the words camera and recorder. Camcorders are primarily used to record motion video, although they may be able to capture stills as a feature.

A video camera is a generic term, covering camcorders and cameras which capture video without recording it. Cameras that only capture video would need a separate recording device like a video tape recorder to record video.

Answer 2

The definitions overlap.

A digital camera is the broadest group. It includes cameras that take and save still or motion pictures digitally instead of on film. More common usage is to refer to still cameras.

Camcorders or handycam are portable devices that take and save moving pictures. Some older ones save in analog. Most produced in the last 2-3 years are digital.

Many of the newest digital still cameras can do very short videos and newest camcorders can take still pictures. They are more expensive and some people feel pictures taken in their alternative mode are of poorer quality.

A video camera technically is one that just takes a moving picture. It would be attached to a separate recording device, as in a TV studio. Most people though use it to mean a camcorder. If you are reading about consumer products, you are reading about camcorders.

Answer 3

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One is made by the home electronics division in China, designed by the Home Electronics division in Japan. The professional camera is designed and made IN JAPAN by the Professional Electronics division. The chips are bigger. The body is made of cast aluminum not plastic, the lenses are interchangable, there is generally no viewfinder or LCD screen (it is expected you will run a Textronic or Trinitron monitor) but there is an optical through the lense viewer. There are 3 chips not just one and they are generally 1/3 of an inch in size not 1/4 or 1/6th as in consumer cameras. It includes color dot and bar generators. It will connect to genlock and time code equipment. It uses less video compression and runs either DV-CAM tape at twice the speed of home camcorders or Betamax (Betacam SP) tape. It delivers 600 - 800 lines of horizontal resolution. You can align or adjust the intensity for RGB. It has different output and input connectors not found on home units. I has a 1 year warranty. It is highly repairable. It generally does NOT come with a microphone but includes an XLR input and output for audio connection from either Low Z (150 ohm) mic or possibly professional line level audio (+3 DBV) for wireless mics. SOME DV-CAM models can also play home Mini DV-C tapes with an adapter, provided it offers slow and fast speeds. It costs from $7,500 and up. In prices over $12,000 you can generally find cameras using the 4-2-2 sampling mode (EFP) instead of the 4-1-1 mode of home and news (ENG) cameras. In prices over $25,000 you can find those that use both 4-4-4 and 4-2-2 sampling and don't do any compression to the video (DV CAM 100). Sampling deals with color to brightness. Home and ENG (low priced professional) cameras sample color for one out of four pixels (4-1-1), while broadcast studio and EFP (electronic field production) cameras sample 2 pixels (4-2-2) or the overkill color of each pixel (4-4-4). Home cameras generally compress 7:1 or greater. ENG compresses 5:1 or greater. EFP compresses in the 3:1 or 1:1 range (no compression, full 4-4-4 data from each pixel). Basially think of RAW (TIFF or Bit Map) storage vs JPEG/MPEG compressed files. Finally, most cameras priced over $9,000 offer a variety of speed settings, including 24/25 FPS, 29.95, i and p (interlaced and progressive) and can even offer variable speeds from 8 FPS to 100 FPS.

Answer 4

Earl D said a lot of stuff, and some of it was right, but let me add to his response. 1/3 inch chips are considered pro, but they're certainly not the biggest size you can get. 1/2 inch chips, 2/3 inch chips and even 35mm sized chips are all available, although they probably wouldnt be in what we think of as a digital video camera, but instead in studio cameras, or digital cinema cameras. Also, newer consumer HD cams have 1/3 inch chips as well. Also, earl D mentioned 3 chip cameras. Yes that does separate the pros from the wannabes (to some extent), but some newer cameras are starting to get away from the 3 chip scheme and just stick with 1 chip. And again, some consumer cameras have 3 chips as well. So in the old days, 3 is better than 1. Now, that still applies, but maybe not all the time. And yes, pro's have interchangeable lenses, but not necessarily all pro cams. So I think the real differences between consumer and pro cams is that pros offer better quality. Seems obvious doesnt it? But how? Pros offer better quality with less compression, better lenses, better chips, and better control. So not necessarily more, but better. For example, a pro camera like the HVX200 uses less compression (DVCPRO HD) than consumer cams (HDV), uses a shorter 10x lens but with better quality Leica optics, it still uses 1/3 inch chips, but with less pixels packed onto each of its 3 chips to still create full HD quality with less than .5 MP on each of its sensors, and allows better control by the option of variable frame rates, manual features, picture adjustments, etc. Hope this helps!

Answer 5

What Is A Camcorder

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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