what’s the difference between normal cameras and movie making cameras?

Question by Haissam Y: what’s the difference between normal cameras and movie making cameras?
im 15 and i am really interested in movie making , i’ve managed to make a dozen 10 minute movies and they were great , except for the colors , it’s just that my stupid sony camera which is a home camera doesn’t give me the “movie” effect , neither would any of the cameras in a cheap under 2000 $ rate , can someone tell me the main difference between the movie making cameras and home cameras?? price range? and a model for a demo , i know that i wouldn’t afford any f it in my faintest dreams but what the heck!! maybe someday i would!!

Best answer:

Answer by Pooky
Simply put, a “normal” camera take a “snap shot” of a moment–so you get a print that you can enlarge and put on your wall.

A movie camera captures moments (long one)–and you can edit all these pieces together and create a movie–that you can play back on your TV.

Most point and shoot cameras do the “movie” mode. It was not impossible for a larger, dSLR to do that, but now they’re able to. Nikon has one, I believe, and Canon, too. Here is a link to the video

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetProductArticlesAct&productID=249&articleTypeID=225 It captures the video in high definition (1080p) format that you can burn onto a blu ray disk and pop it into PS3 or a BR player.

The 2nd one is “cooler” to watch. You need to realize that this camera is quite expensive ($ 2,700) and it doesn’t even come with a lens. So it is more than a nice “toy” to consider.

So if you want to get a camera that can do a simple video, I am sure point and shoot will be more useful. The problem with P&S is that you don’t have that much control over it settings.

Here is a good buying guide http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare.asp

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