I’m loving the Fujifilm X100 for image making. It has a great sized sensor in a beautifully well made, retro-styled body.

It does have its issues though. It is sluggish when taking multiple raw photos and its manual focusing is fiddly. They are not really issues that concern my use though, and I feel most of the niggles so far reported can be fixed with a firmware update. For me its good points far outweigh the bad. Great image quality, a hybrid viewfinder, a lovely fast lens and near silent operation to name a few.

That said, for the X100 to be my every day workhorse, the camera I always have by my side, it also to be useable for video blogging. This is my first real test shooting video and although the lens delivers a great quality image, even in low light, a couple of clips appeared to have a buzzing on the audio and then for no reason.. it went. I didn’t do anything to make it go and can’t seem to get it to happen again. Nevertheless, it was weird and I can see myself doing a few more tests before trusting the camera to deliver both stunning video and acceptable audio. Even if just for video blogging.

(I recorded my initial impression of the camera here on audioboo should you want to hear more.)

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It’s been five years since I last moved home and the amount of junk/stuff/things that has grown somewhat. All going well, the move date will be around the 15th. Nothing is confirmed in stone yet but we have to go through the motions or it will never get done.

I plan to leave a number of thumb drives stashed around the house when I leave. They will have a text file, an mp3, photos and a video. Stories from the last five years in this 200 year old house. A kind of offline blog post meant for the eyes of the present occupier only. I will try to include some of the previous history as we have quite a lot of information. It would be great if each time people live and leave they would add to the story. Leaving it for the next person who moves in.

We often say “If these walls could speak.” In the future I am sure they will. Perhaps a brick that stores multimedia for future generations. Or simpler still.. Just listen to all the Audioboo’s tagged to the houses GPS location.

We considered dropping some of the footage into the interview above but it would have really sold the experience short. If you google around you can find some pretty impressive footage not even shot with the 20 f-stops of latitude we got to experience.

I am quite looking forward to seeing how quickly HDR video monitors become affordable and who will make the first off the shelf HDRV camera available to the average video blogger.

And dont worry about being awash with hyper-real over saturated video footage as today, in a room somewhere in Europe, a group of people are sat around deciding on a HDRV standard for all. Let us hope it emulates what the ‘normal’ eye sees and not one on hallucinogens.

Thanks to Professor Alan Chalmers for taking the time to talk to us.

The footage captured above in a noisy lab was the shot on my fresh out of the box Nikon D7000

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Filmed edited and uploaded on the iPhone4 in an attempt to get some video up last minute on day three of #Vlomo10.

As you can tell by the additional middle title that popped up saying ‘Subtitle’.. no that’s not intentional.. I had already had a rack of beer prior to attempting to edit and upload.. Don’t drink and edit folks..

Thanks to @RichardMackney for pointing out some great beer in Derby.