nokia n8 imaging & video tips

Nokia N8 Getting the most from it

Ari Partinen – Nokia Imaging

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

Practicalities

Make sure the Camera is on High Definition!

To save battery, make sure you turn off the “Save Location info”

For speed and reliability, use a memory card to store the footage

For speed, download your footage to PC/Mac via card reader

Telling a story through video

Excellent idea

Fluent story telling

Technical execution

Telling a story through video

Excellent idea = Difficult

Fluent story telling = Challenging

Technical execution = Easy

Technical potholesLens flare

Auto Focus with videoAuto exposure

Auto White BalanceLow light performance and noise

ZoomHandshake

Audio

From this

To this

Lens Flare

Plan your shotsMake sure lens is cleanUse hand as lens hood

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

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

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!

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.

Low light performance

For best possible results,

Cheat.

Normal mode 25fps, low light 15fps, night 5 fps.

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!

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 takesIt might distort vertical

lines

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

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Other Benefits

Nobody takes you seriously!

Super easy to carry when travelling

And you can call help when in you ran out of money

It´s easy to get creative with small device

And you can take it to places where SLR´s are not allowed =)

Easy to cover the craziest scenes from multiple angles

“There´s more to the picture than meets the eye”-Neil Young

Enjoy the device and Get creative

Thank you