2 posts tagged “sports”

I could never get Sports Tracker working right on my N95.  I'd always run out of ram.  Since I'm trialling the black N82, with its 90mb of free ram, I can finally let loose with multitasking.

Yesterday I went on a walk to Radio Shack to buy an adapter.  I was able to have the music player running in the background while I turned on the Sports Tracker.  Taking pictures wasn't a problem.  Each picture I took came out great and neither the music player or Sports Tracker application crashed.  There was one problem though.  I forgot to charge up the N82 so I ran out of juice halfway on my walk.

When I came home, I plugged the N82 back in and uploaded my workout.  I had to search around a bit to figure out how to add pictures to the workout.  I found the instructions at Black Phoebe

My workout/photowalk can be found here

What I'd really like to see is a way to have an embeddable widget I could place here instead of just a link.  There are widgets for facebook and blogger and some other sites, but they show only your last workout.  I want to be able to share a specific workout.

I tried to upload the the kml file to google maps, but it wouldn't take it.  I tried a bunch of methods, but I couldn't get it to work.

Ideally, Sports Tracker and Share on Ovi would be working together with Nokia Maps to get a great united solution.  But I think we are a few years away from that.

Also,

I think I found the best camera settings for concerts and sports.

1) Landscape mode
2) Adjust the light settings, if you are indoors, check fluorescent or incandescent
3) Set the ISO to high
4) Turn off the flash

These are the settings I used to capture this shot of wrestler Candice LaRae performing a moonsault.

PWG ¡Dia de los Dangerous!, originally uploaded by Al Pavangkanan.

I also used these settings for this concert photography set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drtran/sets/72157603985517716/

In the future, I'd love to see Nokia manage a higher ISO mode, like 800 or higher. This will lead to less blur in action shots.  Another suggestion would be for a faster burst mode. Right now, the S60 imaging software takes a picture every 5 seconds or so in burst mode. I'd like something faster, like to be able to shoot 4 pictures per second like Sony Ericsson's Best Pic feature.  And one more thing I'd like to see in future camera phones: RAW mode.