The Perfect New Pocket Video Cam For Your Mac.

wowser said:

Wow, the Flip mino must run on solar energy if it doesn’t require batteries or charger.

You may want to rethink that.

The Kodak comes with a built in memory card, but also accepts additional flash cards for even more recording time, not something allowed in the Flip video cams.

Bruce Robertson said:

The quality of the Kodak sounds interesting but I think you are missing a point about the mino (I have one).  Absolutely nothing else needed. No cables, no batteries, no cards, no charger. It does work OK with my Mac. Video quality is OK.

auramac said:

Looks interesting! Glad to hear there’s a fix for low-light shooting.. Anyone know how the sound quality compares to the Flips?

wangchung said:

The close up mode is quite good, easy to implement, but, you’re right, the camera needs lots of light. It comes with editing software for WIndows PCs but not for Mac. For my Mac I just plug in the camera to a USB port using an extender cable and use iMovie to import the video. There’s no conversion necessary. It just works.

Billy the Kidder said:

This is a nice camera and compares favorably to the more popular Flip mino. The biggest differences are the lens and video format. A wide angle lens makes the image seem more stable. The Kodak lens appears to make the video ‘shake’ more than the Flip mino. I love shooting in HD!! With enough light it just rocks. If I could only get H.264 video from my iPhone’s feeble camera.

James said:

You are right about low light at HD 60 fps. However, when I changed to SD 30 fps for low light, it looked much better. In fact, it was better than my flip at SD 30 fps under the same low light condition.

I guess I will use HD 60 fps for outdoor and change to SD 30 fps for low light conditions.

stan carter said:

This camera moves the bar even more toward high quality, low cost video cameras with a standard video format.

My wife has a Canon digital photo camera which also does movies. They’re decent, but it records in AVI. Though the movies can be read by iMovie the quality isn’t great, but it’s 30fps. The camera has a flash and costs about the same as the Kodak Zi6.

You’re right about H.264. It would be good for users to see all consumer video camera makers adopt this as a base video standard.

iggy pence said:

My camera came this week. I had ordered the Zi6 from Amazon but they were expecting delivery in October. Then I found out that Kodak was shipping already, so I ordered from them.

You’re right. The lens could be wider and video isn’t great in HD60fps in low light, but otherwise, quite remarkable considering the size and cost of the camera.

Now I know why some video cameras have stabilization. You need a tripod to get really steady video using the Kodak. Operation is so simple even my wife can do it.

—grin—