We go though this ever time i run a bath!  She likes to keep her stuff clean :)
filmed on iPhone 4s

I shot this test video using an App called Luma. It’s great for stabilisation and has a few nice effects too. I edited the video together in iMovie – previously i was using Sony Vegas pro which was a mutha fu*king nightmare and take forever. Well no more!

Our cat Eiko loves to play fetch with screwed up bits of paper. Tried various kinds of toys but he’d sooner have paper!

See: The making of

But anyway, i’m going to start uploading everything in full HD from now on anyway because i’m sure there will come a point when it becomes the norm and at least it will save me re-uploading everything. Here’s my first test video shot and uploaded in 1080p. It looks how it does on the PC so Youtube haven’t destroyed the video. I just wish i’d had a better clearer video to demonstrate!

Click this link [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwkGwOMJy_s&fmt=37] and switch the video to full screen mode (the button just to the right of the HD button). At the moment to watch videos in 1080hd you aparrently have to add this to the end of the URL

&fmt=37

The settings i used in Sony Vegas Pro 9 are:

I shot the video in 25p CINE mode with the Vivid setting on, i also tweaked the levels in Vegas. Anyway, Render settings were:

Incidentally, i’ve also installed the new Flashplayer 10.1 which has made viewing these videos much smoother: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Viddyou.com (paid)

Vimeo.com (paid)

Youtube.com (free)

It’s very very close, Viddyou seems to display the video with the most saturation, then Vimeo and then Youtube. Particularly with the red flowers Viddyou seems a bit too much. I would say Vimeo is just slightly sharper than the other two. Apart from that i can see very little difference.

I have to say i am surprised. I’m paying Vimeo for their Plus package^[1] and compared to youtube, i’m wondering if it’s worth it? People over there say “ah yes but what you get over here is a better community“. True enough Youtube is littered with arseholes but i get more views and positive comments on Youtube than i do on Vimeo. So unless Vimeo come up with something come next subscription time then i don’t think i’ll be renewing with them. My main reason for uploading home movies is as an extra backup but also for embedding them on other sites. With Vimeo you only get a set amount of embedded High Definition plays per year. Even after you have paid them. If you need more plays then you pay them again! I don’t think so.

1. you can use Vimeo for free but with limits

The screen resolution is far better than the Cybershot too, images and videos look brilliant on the display and like the Sony it can also shoot HD video in either AHVCD or Mpeg.  I went for the brown version but it also comes in silver, black, blue and red.

Anyhoo, here are my first pics and video taken with it. You know what surprised me?  Usually i open my pictures in photoshop to make aut0 adjustments to levels and curves and i found that the pictures didn’t need adjusting. So apart from the odd crop these pics are how they came out of the camera.

I think it’s pretty good considering it came from such a tiny compact camera! Obviously it’s no replacement for a dedicated HD camcorder but it’s brilliant for something you can carry everywhere. Oh, and the photo’s ain’t bad either!

Click read more for my review

The large touch screen on the back of the camera covers the entire camera body (brilliant for video!) but at first the touch screen can be a little temperamental. It can seem quite unresponsive at times but this can be helped greatly by calibrating it – don’t calibrate it using your finger, use the end of a pen lid (or something like that that won’t scratch the screen) – you’ll be surprised how much this helps! Most of the controls are accessed through the screen and are easy enough to find.

Controls on the camera body are Zoom, Shutter button, switch from photo to video. And that’s it. The body itself feels very solid and the controls are easy to use, much easier than the T200 which had a fiddly little zoom rocker.

The photo’s straight out of camera on fully auto mode are very punchy. Much more so than my other T200 camera, it’s as if it’s on vivid mode but it isn’t. If you find the saturation a bit too much you can switch the camera into Neutral mode for a more regular look but personally i prefer my photos with more oomph anyway so i like it on default mode. There is some noise present in dark/dull conditions but i guess it depends what you want your camera for. If you want it for regular sized snaps then the pictures look great in my opinion.

So, overall i’m a happy bunny. It’s a great all-round compact camera/hd video recorder.

Viddyou videos look better embedded i think, however, go to SmugMug and watch the video in full size High Def and you really notice a difference! –> Click Here

Check out my smugmug gallery here: http://elektrobix.smugmug.com/

Click Read More for video comparisons:

Vidyou

Vimeo

Pip Frost from Andy Martin on Vimeo.

YouTube