I have five weblogs. Four are about wireless and related computing products, services and technologies and one is about practical information about living in Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
I'm using the Nokia N70 to shoot still photos and videos for my "Practical Cape Cod" weblog.
I shot two videos, one of a blizzard on the Cape and one about the bird feeders and bird houses in our backyard (see left). I used Audioblog, that offers a free beta service for posting videos on weblogs. I typically transfer the photos and videos from the N70 via cable to my laptop and then upload the videos via WiFi to Audioblog, that processes and posts them.
Quality comparisons
Comparing the "raw" video footage when viewed on my computer with the Audioblog-processed footage posted to the Web, it seems that the quality is significantly poorer with the latter than the former. It's still fine for the Web, but the original footage, viewed in QuickTime, for example, looks much better.
I don't have kids so I don't have a camcorder <g>. But I really like the ability to shoot videos with a camera phone, whether it's the higher quality videos of the N70 or even the lower quality (but still not bad) videos from a Samsung 1.3 megapixel camera phone I'm testing as part of Sprint's "Ambassador" program.
I'm expect to use the camera phone video capabilities much more in the weeks to come, and hope to get a Nokia N90 in a few weeks. I want to test the photo and video quality during the CTIA's Wireless 2006 conference in Las Vegas in April.
i use Shozu (shozu.com) to post videos automagically from my trial N70 to my video blog roland.blip.tv and i highly recommend it (and i have no interest in the companY)
Unfortunately due to the fact that no video service has an API, you are limited to about 40 seconds of CIF format but the videos are impressive and it's great to videoblog live without the "chain of pain" of uploading to your PC first or even worse emailing videos!
Posted by: Roland Tanglao | February 27, 2006 at 04:40 AM