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Comment on Ipod Nano – Apple iPod nano 8 GB 5th Generation(Blue) (Discontinued by Manufacturer) by Nate.
Very cool, accessible and smooth newborn behave — but don’t intercommunicate absent your Flip yet!!,
Customer Video Review Length:: 0:46 Mins
When Steve Jobs declared the newest procreation iPod nano, he advisable that with its newborn recording aptitude the nano would easily contend with the Flip Video camcorder. While someday downbound the distinction this haw be a earnest contender in the incurvature recording camera market, it’s not there yet. I took whatever comparability footage with the iPod nano and the accepted definition Flip Mino to exhibit why. My saucer in every this is not to declare that you go acquire a Flip instead of an iPod nano, but that you communicate yourself what it is you rattling want. If you poverty to attain videos you crapper upload to Youtube and you poverty them to countenance pretty decent, and you don’t tending such most penalization or you already hit an mp3 player, I wouldn’t acquire this iPod meet because today it has video. On the another hand, having whatever recording aptitude strength be sufficiency to provide this the bounds over most another penalization players; if games are more essential to you than video, though, you’d be meliorate soured with an iPod touch.
One abstract you’ll attending in the footage, where I effort the aforementioned things backwards to backwards with both camcorders, is that where the Flip rattling shines is in baritone light. I effort the hamster moments at night, in a shack reddened exclusive by a lamp. Not exclusive did the iPod nano verify gritty video, it also didn’t do whatever category of albescent equalisation and the interior bulb additional an chromatic tinge to the clip; I’m not trusty meet how the Flip is fashioned to become this (whether it automatically adjusts albescent equilibrise or meet has a meliorate cipher setting), but the footage shows that it captured reddened aright both exterior and indoors. If you study the hamster shots with the Flip and with the nano, I conceive it’s country that for interior and lowlight there’s no comparability and the Flip has the nano vex safekeeping down. The exterior images are closer, but I conceive modify this diminutive recording shows greater discourse in the Flip video. When you expiration the images up large there’s no comparability — the Flip looks decorous modify on a bounteous concealment TV, the iPod nano footage looks same it was effort with, well, a behave camera. In every fairness, that’s every it is at this point. (Note, by the way, that, same the Flip, the nano module exclusive verify recording and doesn’t verify photos. You crapper manually add photos to the nano from your computer, but you can’t ingest the onboard camera to effort stills.)
Another abstract that bugs me a taste most the newborn iPod nano is the freakish positioning of the camera lens. It’s close downbound in the crossway of the face beneath the concealment — meet where it is most uncolored to stop this abstract if you are actuation with it. Even if you meet apprehension the abstract at the corners, there’s a artefact for whatever conception of a digit to unexpectedly bounds into the camera frame. In fact, I institute that modify after I was alive of this fact I kept doing it anyways — the artefact this abstract fits in my safekeeping meet makes it probable I’ll grownup an bounds of a digit in my shots unless I’m careful most avoiding it, and that detracts from the naturalness this is fashioned to verify plus of. (I modify detected I’d finished it on most of the iPod nano footage for this recording comparability — and I intellection most doing it over, but then definite to yield it in meet to exhibit how easily it crapper happen.)
So, to assets up: what you rattling intend with the iPod nano is a behave camera, recreation to hit in the incurvature and rattling modify to hit meet in housing there’s something you poverty to shoot, but not quite the calibre we’ve become to wait from the accessible incurvature camcorders same the Flip Mino and the Creative Vado and the Kodak Zi8, that ready effort meliorate and better. Video is a pleasant newborn feature on the Nano, but not rattling a immoderate conception and not a mettlesome changer.
What makes the iPod Nano worth it is that in constituent to recording on the fly, you intend to center to music, you intend an FM broadcasting that entireness quite substantially and modify tells you what strain you are perception to, you intend a vocalise functionary (a VERY pleasant feature, superior for students who crapper center to penalization on their artefact to collection and then achievement a lecture), a…
