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By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:27:14 +0000

Yeah, as you say, budget will be the defining factor in a lot of this – that and finding reporters skilled enough to pull it off. The ones who are able to film and then also write a good piece that stands alone from the audio and video will do well.

The sooner we all get video and picture taking glasses like Spider Jerusalem had in the series Transmetropolitan the better

Surprised at the solar power add-on though. I would have thought a freeplay-style winding device would have been better. Ah well maybe in v2.0 (and having said that, reading the post here cemented for me the decision to go and get a N95)

By: souralba

souralba — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:55:08 +0000

Craig, I think that what Reuters are doing is definitely a step in the right direction. And, given the economic realities about to hit journalism, it’s going to be the future for videojournalism in most organisations.

The answer will lie not with specific devices but in combining the functions of video, audio, editing, typing, memory and data transfer, using whatever technology you can afford.

By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:43:22 +0000

Look at it from three viewpoints:

1) for sending text only it’s a great way of doing it -especially if there is a way for the journalist to dial straight in to their newspaper copy service and it isn’t requiring wifi for a connection

2) For audio it’s OK, not great but as a back of audio recorder for interviews it would do

3) Not great for video just now but how many times would a reporter have killed to have had some form of video/audio record of a meeting and this could have done it without it looking too obvious?

Also, as you point out, early days, but for a lot of instances, having something – as the N95 gives – is better than nothing.

I still don’t think it’s fair to compare the N95 with an iPhone though: two totally different beasts.