How to send videos through email on iPhone as attachment

Somewhere in the quest for the ultimate phone operating system, Apple lost touch of what is good and not good. I think when iOS 9 came, the way you could send email with attached videos changed. Before this you could go into your photo album, chose a video and share through email and the phone would re-compress the video suitable for email.

But now if you do that, it will try to attach the full video, which of course is a lot better quality, but will break the 5MByte/10MByte/20Mbyte attachment limit easily. What apple want you to use is to use a drop-box like way, where the video gets stored somewhere and you send the link.

Like the old way? I do, and it is still possible. Here is a step-by-step guide.

1. Open Mail and choose "compose new message"

2. Open "hidden menu" by pressing long

Enter the destination email and subject, then press long in the message field where there is no text (about three seconds). A menu bar will pop-up. Press the right arrow once.

3. Choose "Insert Photo or Video" from the menu bar

4. Select the album where the video is

5. Select the video

6. If the video is right, press "Choose"

7. Now the video will be re-sized and re-compressed

If the video is longer than 1 minute, you will need to select which minute to send

8. Send the email

Now you can send the video as an attachment in the email. Size will be up to about 5Mbyte which is a size all email can handle. 

Walking in a cave with SD1200

We were close to the Pinnacles National Park last weekend and I took a hike there one day. Went on the Balconies hike that takes you through the caves there. As I only had my Sony Ericsson phone with a build in flash light, I was not quite sure if it was so wise to hike through it. Add to it the stupid idea to shoot it with the Canon SD1200IS and you know that it could have ended worse. All is fine, but for a little I really felt disoriented. Here's the video:



Now that must qualify as a real low light video test, or?

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Canon Powershot SD1200IS video improvment

One test that I had not done before was to test the SD1200 (and SD780) in video mode for the annoying "light bleeding". If you have an older (a year or more :) Canon camera and use it for video, you have probably seen this. It happens when you have bright lights in the video, like the sun, lamps or reflections. A vertical line is formed up and down from the light. Here's a video capture from SD800:



On SD1200 this is almost gone. I suspect all Canon cameras with the new DIGIC-4 chip will see this improvement. I have owned S3IS, SD700IS and they also had the bleeding. If you use video, this is a good reason to upgrade. Here is a video example of how it looks.



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