This weekends Yawn! Youtube! video we have a collection of videos captured using the actual handsets themselves. In the last decade video capture on mobile handsets has improved vastly. Some handsets now even boast on being able to capture HD video, which frankly is awesome news for the user!
Lets take a look at how things have improved along the way. (This isn't going to be a chronological list of videos)
First up we have Phoneboy who shot this video using a Nokia E70, the actually video quality isn't too bad. Some handset manufacturers today should take a look at themselves and put their head down in shame.
Nokia E70 - Powerless on Planes
by Phoneboy
Next up we have a video shot using the new and highly anticipated Nokia N900. It's had much of the hype recently and has finally started to ship. This video was taken with a pre-release device without final firmware. Mark tests out the autofocus capabilities of the device.
Nokia N900 Video autofocus
by The Nokia Blog
Now compare this to Nokia's flagship imaging device of yesteryear and current models of N93i and N86 8MP. Both devices were designed for the camera enthusiast market. Both have impressive imaging capabilities. James has done a good job testing out both of their abilities, he tests the zoom and autofocus on the N86 8MP and N93i respectively.
Continuous Autofocus on the Nokia N93i
by James Burland
Nokia N86 8MP Digital Zoom Examples
by James Burland
And here we have some beautiful footage two very different devices with very different imaging capabilities (on paper) anyway. The Samsung Omnia HD and the iPhone 3GS. Again some more videos from James who captured these.
Samsung i8910 HD Seaside Colour Project in HD!
by James Burland
iPhone 3GS to YouTube via iMovie
by James Burland
Finally we have a new handset looking to create some waves in the market. Sony Ericsson's Android device sporting an 8 Mega pixel camera; the X10. This video is an official release from Sony Ericsson's product blog.
X10 first sample video
by SE Product Blog
The videos used this week come from;
The Nokia Blog
Phoneboy
Nokia Creative
SE Product Blog
That ends this weekends video selection for Yawn! Youtube! Come back next weekend for hopefully more videos.
As usual, if you have video you would like included in next weeks post, just use the e-mail at the bottom of the page or find me on Twitter.
3 comments:
Thanks for featuring my videos. Video capture on mobile devices has become a bit of an obsession of mine. Part of it is the 'always with me' aspect, but it's also because of the promise of instant editing and sharing, something which only the iPhone currently seems to offer.
I'm really excited about the prospect of an Nseries device with HD capture. Nokia have held back so far, which indicates to me that they really want to get it right first time.
I hope you're right about Nokia holding back to get it right first time. I have a suspicious feeling they have other ideas in mind for handsets rather than video capture quality (for now anyway.)
Agrea and the feeling is mutual on having a device always at hand which can capture, edit and upload video. Perhaps cameras should start evolving themselves now also.
Thanks for featuring my videos. Video capture on mobile devices has become a bit of an obsession of mine. Part of it is the 'always with me' aspect, but it's also because of the promise of instant editing and sharing, something which only the iPhone currently seems to offer.
I'm really excited about the prospect of an Nseries device with HD capture. Nokia have held back so far, which indicates to me that they really want to get it right first time.
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