iPod
Testing the iPod nano video capabilities
By Jim DalrympleSeptember 10, 2009, 3:45 pm PT
There have been a lot of questions about the quality of the iPod nano’s video camera, so I thought I’d enlist the help of a friend and test it out.
I grabbed a good friend of mine, Bill Lonero, to play guitar in the video, just to see how it would come out. We did it in his living room about mid-afternoon, with just natural light from the sun.
The iPod records the video at 640 x 480 with millions of colors in the .mp4 H.264 format. There are two channels of 44.1 audio and a standard 29.97 frames per second.
What you see here is a 20-second video that is a total of 6.8MB.
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Sweet. Nice clarity and the sound recording quality off the mic is remarkable.
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Looks and sounds great.
But it was the afternoon – shouldn’t you both have been at your jobs?
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This is my job 
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Yeah what Jim said 
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I think i just heard a “Holy F***!!!” coming from Pure Digital’s headquarters.
20 secs takes only 6,8 MBs, 1 hour at approx 1.2 GBs; this is mighty impressive given the above quality and the low-end 8 GB Nano offers plenty spac.
Jim, in your previous article you mentioned the position of the camera. Did it throw you off initially when you started recording?
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The camera didn’t throw me off at all. I used it portrait and landscape with no problems.
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I downloaded the video and opened it in VLC, even full screen it looks pretty good. Nice.
Jim
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i’ve seen one down under typical office lighting that was tossed up on a 24″ imac at full screen and it was no worse than watching a standard def tv, maybe even a tad better. for a newbie feature I’d call that a win
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I’m curious, can you just record a half-hour of video at a time, or does it cut off after a specified period?
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Testing the iPod nano video capabilities
By Jim DalrympleSeptember 10, 2009, 3:45 pm PT
There have been a lot of questions about the quality of the iPod nano’s video camera, so I thought I’d enlist the help of a friend and test it out.
I grabbed a good friend of mine, Bill Lonero, to play guitar in the video, just to see how it would come out. We did it in his living room about mid-afternoon, with just natural light from the sun.
The iPod records the video at 640 x 480 with millions of colors in the .mp4 H.264 format. There are two channels of 44.1 audio and a standard 29.97 frames per second.
What you see here is a 20-second video that is a total of 6.8MB.
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Discussion 9 comments so far
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Sweet. Nice clarity and the sound recording quality off the mic is remarkable.
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Looks and sounds great.
But it was the afternoon – shouldn’t you both have been at your jobs?
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This is my job
-
Yeah what Jim said
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-
I think i just heard a “Holy F***!!!” coming from Pure Digital’s headquarters.
20 secs takes only 6,8 MBs, 1 hour at approx 1.2 GBs; this is mighty impressive given the above quality and the low-end 8 GB Nano offers plenty spac.Jim, in your previous article you mentioned the position of the camera. Did it throw you off initially when you started recording?
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The camera didn’t throw me off at all. I used it portrait and landscape with no problems.
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I downloaded the video and opened it in VLC, even full screen it looks pretty good. Nice.
Jim-
i’ve seen one down under typical office lighting that was tossed up on a 24″ imac at full screen and it was no worse than watching a standard def tv, maybe even a tad better. for a newbie feature I’d call that a win
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I’m curious, can you just record a half-hour of video at a time, or does it cut off after a specified period?
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