Nokia N95 Camcorder

The Nokia N95 is great as a digital camera, and its just as good at video recording. The video specifications from the built-in camera are quite impressive. With the Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optics the N95 can record mp-4 video at a maximum VGA resolution and 30 frames per second (fps). It also records in 3gp for multimedia messages but mp4 is the default format. The N95’s video recording uses a single standard quality phone microphone directed towards the video subject. This is a major improvement on the N93i that has a pair of microphones that were directed upwards, but it’ not as good as the N93 has proper stereo microphones, directed towards the video subject and separated by the width of the phone. However, the N95 has automatic gain control with the level being sampled several times a second and automatically adjusted. This allows the N95 to record an audible and non-distorted soundtrack for everything from normal speech to loud music concerts.

 

There are also automatic and night shooting modes; as well as several white balance settings, including automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, and fluorescent; and color tone settings, including normal, sepia, black & white, negative, and vivid. In addition, the N95 has a digital video stabilization feature to reduce camera shake while you’re recording video. For a phone, video quality was also quite good and does not have any of the graininess that is on some video clips shot by camera phones. Video quality on the N95 is roughly comparable to that of the N93 and N93i, but is much better than older Nseries phones which capture video at 352 x 288 pixels and at 15 fps. However, it’s very average when compared to a budget home camcorder. Nonetheless, video playback is excellent both on the N95’s 26″ screen, and on TV/DVD/Monitor via the TV out port. Then there’s also Video editor and Movie director software that you can use to edit and enhance your video clips. Video clip length is only limited by available free memory.