Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Kodak Zi6 HD Pocket Video Camera Review

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For a pocket camcorder, Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera has a ton and shoot video with surprisingly strong colors. It does not replace your full-size competitors such as camcorders or a camcorder feature set, but it offers features unique among the current crop pocket HD camcorder.

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The Zi6 combines a lot of things that we love about Pure Digital Flip Mino – flip-out USB port for Direct-From-device uploads to YouTube and unloading clips on your computer, dead, easy controls, and relatively good quality video with a some tricks that trump Pure Digital’s most popular gadgets such as the ability to distinguish between macro and landscape mode and the presence of three video recording modes, and toggle a still-photo mode. Still images with the Zi6 will be caught, not much to see, but the option of a snap still beautiful.

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The three, all video modes to record as H.264. Mov files: a 60-frames-per-second HD mode (720p), a 30-fps HD mode (even 720p) and standard-definition VGA mode takes the low – resolution of the clip with a smaller file size. In still mode, the Zi6 recorded 3-megapixel images with its CMOS sensor, still images are a bit better than that, expect what you get with the average cell phone camera, but not stunning, high-res images that To edit and crop.

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The Zi6 is slightly larger than pocket-HD camcorders like the Flip Mino, Creative Vado HD, or the Sony HD Webbie MHS-PM1, but it is still in every pocket. It is a pilot for the size of an old Palm, compared to the Flip’s iPod nano-sized frame. Even if it is an all-plastic body, it also feels very durable in his hand – a little stronger than the plastic and metal Flip Mino HD. On the other hand are in all ports, covers and doors on the Zi6 mean, it could be a bit more vulnerable to damage, if it’s left.

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For a basis of comparison, I shot the same material from side to side either with the Kodak Zi6 (in the 30-fps HD setting) and the Flip Mino HD. The Zi6 showed some interesting differences in well-lit indoor settings – its colors looked lively in the spring. Mov file.

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