Comments on: TiPb Video: iPhone 3G S Low-Light Recording Demo

By: Rob Brennan

Rob Brennan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:09:39 +0000

Just shot some awesome footage of the local fireworks display on my iPhone 3GS - check it out at http://www.therobbrennan.com/journal/2009/7/5/video-of-fireworks-display-from-rouses-point-ny.html

By: Kingsapo

Kingsapo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:32:26 +0000

Ha, the end sounds like popcorn! Good quality for a phone, though.

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:56:35 +0000

@Chara, there is a HUGE difference. Trying blowing up the video on a computer from a 3G you will get nothing but pixelation.

By: Chara

Chara — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:23:38 +0000

What i'd like to see is a quality comparison between a 3G (iphone video recorder) video and a 3Gs video. the optics in 3Gs are no doubt better but the 3G videos aren't bad as well.

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:16:25 +0000

@Chris, on a boat in downtown Chicago. Every Saturday night there is a fireworks show by Navy Pier.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:08:13 +0000

Jeremy: If you don't mind me asking, where was that fireworks display taken?

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:42:30 +0000

I too am very impressed with the 3GS video recording. In my brief tests it's at least comparable to a flip, a bit better in some circumstances, a bit worse in others. Has any one had a chance to run the footage through iMovie's shake reduction? I've been dying to try it as my videos are shaky as hell.

By: scottb

scottb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:16:57 +0000

We were at a party last night with fire dancers. My friend brought her new 3GS and the videos are amazing! No joke, Apple stepped it up on this front. That alone will sell a lot of phones.

By: icebike

icebike — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:53:16 +0000

@Muero:

The latter.

This is not atypical of low end cams when recording. They can't accept focus commands because recording is pushing the cam circuits about as fast as they can go. The essentially become fixed focus once you start recording.

This also affects most hand held cameras under 300 bucks from NIKON, Olympus, etc.

By: Muero

Muero — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:50:20 +0000

About focusing during video recording: Do you just mean you can't tap to change focus, but pointing the camera at something much closer still auto-focuses? Or that once the camera is focused on something, it will always be focused at that distance no matter how close the object is you're pointing it at?

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:16:21 +0000

Nice, I want. Bad

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:03:47 +0000

I think we all can be impressed with the video quality from a phone. Makes me want to upgrade from my 3g now.

By: Johnny H.

Johnny H. — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:39:58 +0000

I'm impressed too.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:14:54 +0000

You can set focus before you start recording, but not during. To change focus, you need to stop recording, change, then start again.

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:54:04 +0000

To Davidx. No David yu can't focus wile the video is going. Go to my youtube; liamd330. And I show yu

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:52:09 +0000

Wow it's really good

By: Davidx

Davidx — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:51:38 +0000

Thanks for showing so many demo video:D

But I still have a question about the recording...can we

change the area of auto-focus during the video recording??