The Ultimate VideoBlogger’s Camera: Nokia N93

One of the things I’ve been doing to get up to speed within the brave new world of videoblogging has been to form something of a support network.

I’ve joined the Yahoo VideoBlogging Group online and in the process have given and gotten a great deal of good information from my fellow 500+ members.

I attended PodCamp Boston — an unconference which I thought I would never attend — and met hundreds of fellow podcasters and videobloggers teaching each other the skills of the trade.

I’ve joined the Boston MediaMakers Group, which meets once a month and basically geeks out over what everybody else is doing, who uses what equipment and why and basically chitchat about videoblogging.

It was at yesterday’s Boston MediaMakers Group meeting that I encountered one of the major risks of the profession: falling in love with someone else’s cool gadget.

The gadget in this case is what I would call the ultimate videoblogger’s video camera: a Nokia N93. It’s a semi-professional quality video camera that produces beautiful content and can double as a cell phone through which you can transmit your videos.

With a 2GB disk in there, you could record almost 2 hours worth of video.

And it fits nicely into your shirt or pants pocket.

A totally non-intimidating video camera perfect for doing interviews in a crowded or public situation like a conference or trade show.

Totally cool.

I hope to find a way to get one into my greedy little hands one of these days, but currently can’t spring the $700 it would set me back for one. But oh, I can SO see myself using the Nokia N93 at the “Launch Silicon Valley” event I hope to attend in early November. 15 entrepreneurs and numerous VCs and angel investors in one room for one day and I could get all that in this cool little device.

Maybe the kind people at Nokia will find a way to get me one so I can show the world what a totally cool device they’ve created.

In any case, enough of my gadget lust for one day… I gotta get back to work.