Awful video zoom

I too am surprised at this since v10 benchmark demo videos posted on the web did not have this problem.

I find that if you are going to zoom at all, do it before you start recording, then zoom out and it seems to work a little better. Zoom in still has the problems you describe with v12.

Yeah, ditto, was shocked and shtunned at the poor quaity, and had two experiences to compare, both at footy matches.

With the N95, I was recording 'normally', then zoomed into the max as the deciding penalty was taken in a penalty shoot out. Pretty clear pictures, steady image, steady sound quality. Camera zoomed in and out with no problem, effortlessly, in fact when I showed this to my wife, she was so impressed with the zoomed in pic, she wanted to go out and by an N95 just for video recording.

Second incident, a few months later, again at a footy, as the teams were coming out of the tunnel, recording normally, then zoomed into the max to get as close as possible. This is where the N97 went west, and went all Pete Tong. THe quality was was all over the place, pixelated, too bright, too fuzzy, all I got was white noise but the sound was still there. Had to take it back to normal zoom to get a decent picture again. On those two comparisons, the N95 kicked the N97's backside into the stratosphere.

Again, hope the new FW does the job on that, otherwise, it was p!ss poor.

Well, I just tried the video recording feature on my N97 which with previous firmwares functioned very poorly when zooming as it stuttered and stepped and just looked fecking awful.

And guess what?

It's still shit. 😡 :banghead: :bawling:

FFS, Nokia. Seriously. I'd have taken one up the poop shoot for you guys until got my N97. Now, with a GPS that sucks, a camera zoom that stutters more than Arkwright and the numerous other niggles, I'd as soon rip your face off than let you come anywhere near me with another Nokia device. I mean, I even, for one brief moment, thought I should have gone with an iPhone. FFS!!!

So, now I am lumbered with a flaky handset, that doesn't do the stuff it should or doesn't do it well enough, for two more years. Well, I'm not going to take it.

I will be contacting every consumer group that I can in a bid to rid myself of this P.O.S. at no further cost to myself.

My N95 is a far more competent device. How could Nokia have taken such a retrograde step??