Does this camera allow you to snap still pictures while shooting HD video?
1641406
Yes you can shoot stills while recording video. It is not a feature I am familiar with but I just tried it and it worked just fine.
1641407
Yes you can snap stills during video capture. The GF5 also has the capability to pull screenshots from video during review.
599525
Not that i have been able to do - pressing the shutter stops video acquisition, but since starting the movie has a separate trigger you can press shutter once to stop, again to take still, then movie button to start movie again. I had a larger canon which could take stills during video acauisition which was ok but there was frame droo during the still capture. Made me less likely to take stills during video recording even when i did have the function.
2161447
With this Sony model you cannot take a still photo while shooting video. On some previous models you could. Sony took that feature away on this one - and I was unhappy to find that out (after I bought the camera)
540540
The camera records video on HDV videotapes (it can record on DV tapes). It does have a Sony Memory Stick slot that will store still pictures only (no video).
409496
yes it does and its a very nice camera two different file types one is a side by side the other full HD 2 seperate files in one..but yes it does take still.
90062
Will the hd8m-c still take good pictures even though it is for doing video?
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Hello Harry, Please explain what you mean you cannot get still shots while recording. Do you want the camera to display still photos when you take them and you choose when to continue taking video. Or you cannot find your still photos after you take them, you only see the video. As I explained, possibly not clearly, when you are recording a video and you press the shutter button to take a photo, the camera do not interupt your video recording to display the picture. after completing your video you press the play/review button and then you will see the photos and the video when going in reverse order. if you review from begining you will see video first then your pictures. Hello Harry, Please explain what you mean you cannot get still shots while recording. Do you want the camera to display still photos when you take them and you choose when to continue taking video. Or you cannot find your still photos after you take them, you only see the video. As I explained, possibly not clearly, when you are recording a video and you press the shutter button to take a photo, the camera do not interupt your video recording to display the picture. after completing your video you press the play/review button and then you will see the photos and the video when going in... » Read More Hello Harry, Please explain what you mean you cannot get still shots while recording. Do you want the camera to display still photos when you take them and you choose when to continue taking video. Or you cannot find your still photos after you take them, you only see the video. As I explained, possibly not clearly, when you are recording a video and you press the shutter button to take a photo, the camera do not interupt your video recording to display the picture. after completing your video you press the play/review button and then you will see the photos and the video when going in reverse order. if you review from begining you will see video first then your pictures. « Show Less
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Yes, it does but I don't use that feature very often, it takes a few seconds, at least 5 to write the burst and that can be too slow for quick action, but if you are wanting a single burst set, it is reasonable. I have not had too much success with fast action capture with this camera. I use it for scenery and video, the sound capture is outstanding, see what it can do at youtube, look up ddupont, these were all from this camera.
627230
It doesn't have a still picture mode. I take stills from the video capture as you've suggested which works pretty well. It's a great little camera.
2179588
No I don't believe so. You can set the motion detection to alert you and then you can choose to record what is going on in view of the camera or take individual snapshots.
520413
Yes.. I have been happy with this camera.. Crisp clear video going on two years now..
1476957
Yes. You can even take still photos while you are videotaping. There's a photo button on top of the camera by the zoom.
1665883
I had not tried that feature yet. I usually only leave the camera at its native settings for the highest quality. I usually edit the photos/videos after the raw footage is uploaded to keep the full resolution.
289407
Don't know what exactly you mean by continuous video shooting. If you refer to continuous shooting, yes, it shoots pictures every 1.9 sec. If you refer to video, yes, it is capable to record HD video or 1080P. A good review of the camera can be found at this address: http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/nikon_coolpix_l610_review/specifications/
1947648
This camera does NOT take still shots directly, you can take screenshots from the video using VLC Media Player, but the camera cannot take still shots directly. This is a video- only camera, it would be a great buy refurbished. I recommend getting it, if you need still shots but don't need full-HD video then I recommend the Samsung F90 (long- zoom) or for a fair stack of dough get a bridge camera.
1256938
Short answer: no, get a proper stills camera for that. However since it shoots raw, it saves each frame as a separate dng file within a folder so technically you could grab a still from the dng sequence.
2272165
Yes, if you press the shutter button while capturing video, it will save frames from the video at whatever resolution you are shooting the video at.