3. Nokia N8
Best mobile imaging device today
12Mpix stills and 720p HD Video (H.262/MPEG-4)
28mm vide angle F2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar Optics
Large 1/1.83” Image sensor and Xenon flash
HDMI connectivity
Image processing tuned by photographers
4. Practicalities
Make sure the Camera is on High Definition!
Turn off the “Save Location info”
Use memory card to store the footage
Download the footage to MAC via card reader
5. Telling a story
through video
Excellent idea =
Difficult
Fluent story telling =
Challenging
Technical execution =
Easy
6. Technical potholes
Lens flare
Auto Focus with video
Auto exposure
Auto White Balance
Low light performance and noise
Zoom
Handshake
Audio
7. Lens Flare
From this
To this
Plan your shots
Make sure lens is clean
Use hand as lens hood
Dragonfly love
8. Auto focus
Video sharp from roughly 1 meter to
infinity
With additional wide angle lens you can
use shorter distances
Extreme Close-ups achievable with
close-up lens
The dot
9. Auto Exposure
AE adjusted according to relatively small
spot located center of the image
Place bright areas center frame when ever
possible
People see blown out whites but don´t
mind black
10. Auto Exposure
Scenes with very high dynamic range can
be evened out with external lights or
careful planning.
If high contrast scenes can´t be avoided
measure exposure from the brightest part
of the scene!
N8 producers
11. Auto White
Balance
AWB designed to correct color errors caused
by different lighting conditions.
Designed not to be perfect. Candle light
should be warm, snow gold.
For desired effect manual AWB can be used.
Cloudy pre-setting on sunny day gives warm
tones.
Several light sources in one scene may
cause problems.
The rooftop dancer
Franck the crank
13. Zoom
3 times digital zoom
available.
No loss in sharpness!
For best results go with
either 2x or 3x zoom.
Zoom above the “i” in
Nokia!
14. Handshake
Handshake rarely looks good
Unless it´s intentional
When using steady cams or tripods turn off
the video stabilization
Avoid very fast panning in your takes
It might distort vertical
lines
15. Audio
Wind noise reduction.
Recording level control in harsh
environments like rock concerts.
Bit rate 128000, Sampling rate
48000.
Two stereo microphones, one
facing forward one backward
Singapore Birdpark
