I had a little blip of excitement last night as I was unboxing a Lenovo S10 3T convertible netbook with a 9 cell battery but it didn’t last long. While the battery life might be better than my Gigabyte Touchnote, it would need a days work to port the ssd and apps over. In the end I decided that the Touchnote would once again be my workhorse. That means sticking with my tried and tested S2IS 5MP camera with the vga / mjpeg video capability. This combo, along with a tripod is what I’ll be using on press day to do live blogging. With remote capture via USB, it works very efficiently. The tripod helps me with those long, low-light shots too. I did test an SX20IS and and an SX30IS and they would both give me a couple of extra f-stops to play with (due to better sensors and better software and stabilization) but at 320 euro, I think I’ll wait until after CES now.
In previous posts I have been taking about the Nokia N8 and the Galaxy Tab and I do indeed plan to use them but not until day 1. Day zero, Press day, is a day of dark rooms, live blogging and long-zoom shots on a tripod. Ill stick with the Netbook and bridge camera for that and wait until the 6th for the big Galaxy Tab test. The N8 photos are really quite amazing and i had a lot of success with indoor video over Christmas so I’m looking forward to that.
Final kit list is this then. . .
– Gigabyte Touchnote for live blogging, video editing, long-form blogging.
– Canon S2IS bridge camera for live blogging and video on press day.
– Nokia N8 for day 1 photo and video work. Continuous use as phone, calendar.
– Galaxy Tab for light blogging, day 1 blogging test, Twitter, maps, latitude, Google chat.
I’ll also have a power pack with me and a local MIFI unit for connectivity along with the usual cables etc.
The fun starts on Jan 3rd and coverage will be on Carrypad and UMPCPORTAL.
love the mifi taped to the battery pack :D
Will you record in 720p or VGA with n8?
You should get one of those holders with tripod mount for n8,to late now I guess.
Remember n8 has quiet amazing zoom functionality in video mode,almost as good as optical.
I’m going to try 720p although I have a feeling that editing will be difficult!
Have you tried the native editing on the N8? is that too slow or just lacking features?
Yeah. Its very basic. No crossfading or overlays looks quite amateur!