Apple of My Eye is a short film, directed by Michael Koerbel, that was shot entirely on an iPhone 4 and edited with the iMovie App in 48 hours. Included with the embed is some “making of” footage that includes an explanation of the model train cam and editing the film on the iPhone. While […]

By now you, you probably already know that the iPhone 4 can shoot great video. But is it good enough for commercial work? FLF Films thought so – and they shot their latest commercial, for Minelab, on an iPhone 4. Filming included putting the iPhone on a Steadicam and even flying it through the air […]

The quality of iPhone 4 video can be great – but it can also be nauseating because it tends to be so jerky. Tiffen has an interesting solution – the Steadicam Smoothee. It’s basically an affordable (under $200) iPhone Steadicam.  It’s available for Motorola Droid and Flip Mini, too.

My Urban Report‘s Amani Channel offers his thoughts on how to pick the best video camera to vlog or video podcast with. If you’re looking for somebody to tell you the camera to buy, you’re going to be disappointed. But Channel raises some of the main issues to consider. And he’s got a giant mic […]

The Ion Twin Video is the world’s first video recorder with front and back lenses.

It can film both you and what you are doing, from your perspective, at the same time – which means it could be the first video camera designed for video bloggers.

Chris Albrecht (NewTeeVee) made this side-by-side comparison of the video quality of the iPod nano vs the Flip SD. “Overall — the Flip offered a MUCH better picture both indoor and out, providing way more detail in the image,” notes Albrecht. “The Flip microphone was also a little more discerning in our test, able to […]

Kodak has released the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera, a $179 HD handicam which features – finally – an external mic jack. There are a lot of cheap portable video cameras, but almost all of them suffer from horrible sound and no support for better mics. Let’s hope that other companies will follow Kodak’s lead […]

Zoom has introduced a new video recorder, the Zoom Q3, that promises to be “the best sounding video camcorder you’ve ever heard.” The Q3 uses the same microphone capsules as Zoom’s popular H4n Handy Recorder. The Q3 has two condenser mics on-board, in an X/Y pattern in order to capture an accurate stereo image The […]

Wireless memory card maker Eye-Fi yesterday announced that it is extending support for users’ video uploads to popular online photo-and video-sharing sites Picasa Web Albums, Photobucket, and SmugMug. Eye-Fi’s patent-pending technology works with Wi-Fi networks to automatically send photos and videos from a digital camera to online, in-home and retail destinations. Users of the 4GB […]

Sony today unveiled a new high-definition camcorder, the HDR-TG5V Handycam. The camcorder captures 1920×1080 high-definition video and can snap four-megapixel photos. The model includes 16GB of Flash memory (a portion of which is used for data management), embedded GPS and a new “intuitive” user interface for the touch-panel LCD. The HDR-TG5V has a built-in GPS […]