some expensive digicams are pretty poor at night in recording quality also, but even in daylight the n900s video recording is annoyingly very jumpy-never smooth, and that gives me a headache! im hoping an eventual official update might fix that, and possibly improve on its nightcam recording quality to boot. not keeping my hopes up as im not sure how dedicated nokia are at updating their latest systems, this n900 is my first nokia device. good camera, good video player, good phone, good internet device, good portable games device, average video recorder