Video: Student Pizza time with Nokia 808 PureView (making Pizza from scratch)
On Friday, I received a trial Nokia 808 PureView. Whilst I was making lunch, I thought I’d use the 808 to record what I was doing. Making pizza from scratch. Well, from the flour base and the ingredients vs getting the prepared one from the store. This was just a quick test – perhaps I should have talked through it but my back was hurting way too much for that.
The 808 was zoomed in the whole time hence why the vibration is much more pronounced. I found that the continuous AF did not perform as well as I’d hoped here. Perhaps I was too close at times? I reverted to using tap focus which automatically disables CAF until you press that button again.
I used a faux stabiliser which wasn’t correctly set up and so may have caused more problems than I would have had without it. It’s certainly better when you’re walking around vs slow panning as you’ll see hopefully either this week or next week as I show some useful accessories for the 808. I’ve got a new tripod today which would have been perfect for the short panning clips.
Although not in the video, I was amazed by the sound recording from the 808. I was playing back some clips in the video editor and kept thinking someone’s left something cooking in the oven as the alarm kept going off. It was the 808 video. I’m going to be recording some more of my own tests for PureView this week.
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I guessed that the video was zoomed in all the time before going back and reading the story
Use creative mode, hold down your finger anywhere on the screen that isn’t a button, and choose Focus mode ‘Close-up’. You’ll probably still need to use tap to focus to reduce the automatic refocusing though.
http://www.nokia.com/my-en/808tips/
There’s also some frame blending going on. Sony Vegas?
Oh wow, thanks. That’s actually insanely useful. I thought being on automatic mode for video would have been enough. Seems it needs macromode from creative mode. I do find it disappointing that I have to do that, much like when family members use Nokias without using macro mode for close up photos. Is there no way this can be automatically done?
That menu was a mystery to me until I accidentally held my finger still when making my mind up whether to zoom or not. Nice discovery, but also something of a nuisance when trying to time a zoom if you forget it’s there! Anyway, it’s also available in photo Creative mode, where it adds the hyperfocal and infinity options. I’ve found hyperfocal can be extremely useful for night photography of moving people, since the 808 can struggle to get a focus lock in low light even with the assist lamp, and a moving target makes it harder still.
I’ve absolutely no idea why the option is there, why it can’t be found in Scenes mode, and why the transistion to macro isn’t automatic. Perhaps it reduces autofocus seek time, or saves on wear to the motors? It’s an improvement over the days when we had to hit the area around the lens of the N95 and other phones with a palm to force it into a macro mode when video recording though.
Thanks Jay…. I’m hungry now and its 6am :/
I would like to buy an 808, maybe this week, but depending on what other phones Nokia brings out on the 5th September. I would like it as my dream phone to have as a sim free handset for a few years. I can’t try one in the shops because there aren’t any, but does it have BBC iPlayer and does Spotify work on it?
over at AAS steve has written an article on how to get BBC iPlayer to work (just need to download a windows DRM file)
here’s the article http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/flow/item/15529_How_to_Get_BBC_iPlayer_downloa.php
Thank you. Could I assume that if something works on the N9, it will work on the 808?
(Should I learn to design apps myself……)
I mean the N8