Digital Video Camera or some cheap P&S?

[karusel]

The sole and single purpose: interval shooting, like, one shot every minute or so. Obviously as there is a film to be made of these frames, resolution needs not be very high. The battery life is very crucial, I could live with homemade wired-together several battery packs / battery sets, the cam would not have a chance to use a computer as it would mostly be in a remote place , also a suggestion what to do with aperture and white balance.

I made a computer controlled 10D interval shooting over a period of 6 hours or so... some shots were out of focus, so I guess manual focus ability is a must have.

So what do you suggest, a DV camera or a still camera? Which?

[CoolToolGuy]

Check the surveillance/security world. They are probably tuned into interval photography.
Hope this helps.

[Ikinaa]

For Christmas, I bought for the family videos the sony trv33 miniDV cam.
It can also shoot 1 MPixel photos which it stores on memorystick, or shoot the film on memorystick in mpeg-format, so no need to download it via firewire, but simply get it from the stick
And it has interval shooting and you may make your animated film by taking single pictures and storing them on the miniDV cassette.
The price was about 650 Euro.

For making small animations it's great.
I haven't tried animations by using a digicam such as my G3, but I guess it's a lot more work.

[karusel]

It surely is not more work... I batch-resized the frames in PS as the full resolution of 3000*2000 was a bit too large, then compiled them in Ulead GIF animator. Very easy.

650 euro is more than I'm ready to give, the limit would be about 200...

As for surveilance cameras... I don't think they come cheap, I doubt they run on batteries and use mini DV... so they're a no-no.

[karusel]

Also, I'd like the device to be able to capture in 1 or minimum 2 fps... a 1 megapixel digital camera would probably be good enough...