Kodak Zi8 Vs Flip Mino: A Pocket Video Camera Review
The world of digital camcorders is accelerating along at the same velocity as the computer industry, gathering more and more extraordinary features in ever smaller packages. Take, for instance, the new pocket video camera that have been revealed recently. Currently, it is mainly a competition between just 2 products: the new Kodak Zi8 and the Flip Mino camcorders.
Both creations have been painstakinly designed to capture the advancing market of easy to use and exceptionally portable camcorders with built in capabilities that make sharing the videos on the computer and loading them up to the popular social networking sites markedly easy. Let's do a quick digital video camera review of these 2 products.
Flip and Kodak are both legitimately proud of their distinct product lines, and make it easy to find lots of data online. Of course, one of the most influential features to everyone is the cost, and you will see that they at exactly the same price point, $179.99. So far they're even.
One obvious difference between these two is that the Kodak Zi8, like most pocket video cameras, has an extremely meagre amount of internal memory -- only 128 MB. The Flip has a much larger capacity of 2 GB, 16 times as much. Score 1 for the Flip.
However, and this is colossal, the Kodak depends on the use of SD/SDHC memory slots to advance it's storage capabilities. The Flip Mino leaves you no room for upgrade. The Kodak digital video camera can manage up to a 32 GB card for those who want to go all out. How will this help you? Up to 10 HOURS of video recording! Score a big plus for Kodak.
One of the things that is alike between them is they both benefit from a very functional built in USB swing-out arm, so you don't need camera specific cables. You can just pull out the arm and plug it directly into your computer and begin sharing. No more cable clutter! A tie.
Each comes with video and picture editing software, but only the Zi8 has HD capable video recording, and a HDMI output on the camera itself to attach instantly to your HDTV for immediate viewing. A Kodak win.
But from here on, it largely isn't much of a competition. The Flip Mino, and even it's big brother the FlipHD, which costs considerably more, can't compare to the importance and caliber of the Kodak Zi8. For the same price, you get a vastly augmented view screen, built-in image stablization, full 1080 pixel HD video, and the dependability that comes with the Kodak brand.
Final result: the race between these two products is not even close at present -- the Zi8 pocket digital video camera is first class. Of course, don't anticipate Flip will sit by idle as their market share evaporates.
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