Which is better to buy still digital camera or digital camcorder?

Which is better to buy?Still digital camera or digital camcorder?Both have almost same price.But camcorder can capture still images and also video with resonable resolution. in the other side still digital camer can only capture still images with also resonable resloution,even if the resolution is better like (8Mpixel) I will never use this resoultion because the image size will be very big which is not good for me.

Its not fair to compare the photo taken from a still camera with those taken with a digital camcorder. They made for different purposes. Normally speaking, the CCD (light sensor) that came with camcorder only have to handle resolution of 720X480 pixel for NTSC video or 1024X768 for NTSC High-def. But for digital camera, the higher the resolution, the more detail of the still images. Its a lot easier for a digital camera to downsize the resolution for video than a camcorder to up-size its resolution for still images.

Back to your question. If the still image size is not a concern for you at all (we are talking about 1-2MPixel here at most). Go for a camcorder, it produce much better video for you than a digital camera can. Most of the digital camera has only limited video features and you can't store much video in a digital camera. Some won't even allow you to zoom when in video mode. But of course, its better to take still image with a camera and take video with camcorder. After-all, that's what they're made for.

It all depends what you need it for. I personallly use both, you never know what event or interesting time your going to have.

I recently got a Pentax Optio at Costco on sale, this is a 7 megapixel digital camera, impressive resolution. It can also take a video at DiVX format, now that is a high resolution compress video. A 2Gb SD card can hold more than an hour and a half of video.

Nowadays digital camera video capturing is getting better, but the video camera still photography have a long way to go.

just get a digital camcorder that would do the trick and make sure it has a snapshot button on it somewhere. i have a samsung digital camcorder 880x zoom and 22x optical. i got over at circuit city 2 years ago and it has 2.5 lcd and a 6sec snapshot (for still images) to take photos the only thing im missing on mine is an infrared feature. mine was only $230 and im happy with it.