I just love it that the 7610 can record 10 min long videos. That’s a really long time if you have to hold your hand up to record something. I’d love to try to do a feature length movie using just a camera phone – edited on the phone of course. 😉
But think of the possibilities! You can do interviews, really get the feel for a place, and when mixed with still images, you get a nice ‘documentary’ once it is transferred to your Lifeblog.
Unfortunately, on the 7160, the microphone is pointed to pick up the voice of the phone user. That stinks when you want to film a video – you can’t hear what is in front of the phone, only yourself, as you film.
I happened to have a Bluetooth headset and thought I’d see if it would work as a wireless mic. Lo and behold, it did!
If you hold the headset pointed towards what you are filming, it’ll pick up the sounds really well. Play with it, to get the hang of it, like how far you need to be with the mic to get a good pick up. The sound sometimes is not the best quality. Partly it’s becuase I’ve been a bad sound recorder. But, I also think this is because the headset itself can only do a compressed 8 kHz sound, not the best quality.
But hey, it does the trick and is so fun!
Get rolling!
