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!

Turn off the “Save Location info”

Use memory card to store the footage

Download the footage to MAC via card reader

Telling a story through video

Excellent idea = Difficult Fluent story telling = Challenging Technical execution = Easy

Technical potholes

Lens flare

Auto Focus with video

Auto exposure

Auto White Balance

Low light performance and noise

Zoom

Handshake

Audio

From this

To this

Lens Flare

Dragonfly love

Plan your shots Make sure lens is clean Use 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

The dot

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!

N8 producers

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

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 takes

It 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

Singapore Birdpark

Other Benefits

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 meet´s the eye”

-Neil Young

Enjoy the device and Get creative Thank you for listening