The Digital Pocket Video Camera Has Come Of Age

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The Digital Pocket Video Camera Has Come Of Age

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

The introduction of the digital pocket video camera has gone a long way, to make video recording easy. Everyone has gone crazy for this little gadget with a lot of potential. The first generation of pocket video cameras, Flip cameras, were the perfect answer to most people’s dreams.

Nevertheless, for the style conscious, they were a bit of a letdown, when compared to the sleek digital cameras, and cool iPods available: Tending to be on the bulky side, and making them a touch too big, to comfortably fit in your pocket. Despite this, Pure Digital has crossed boundaries to introduce us to the pleasures of the pocket video camera. Wowing consumers, by producing a HD video pocket camera for under $200.

Superior Quality

Recently Kodak released the Zi8, which provides superior quality, and unlike Flip pocket camcorders, it also doubles up as a 5 mega pixel, 16:9 widescreen HD, digital still camera. Both the Flip Pocket camcorders provide 720p resolution, which is the most standard level for HD video cameras.

The newly released Kodak Zi8 offers a 1080p resolution, which is the highest end of HD video. It also has various video mode settings, including “standard mode”. Ideal for capturing friends, family and funnies, for loading up to YouTube, or Facebook. In standard mode, you can jam tonnes more into the memory, which is a useful option to have. With its SD/SDHC expandable memory (anywhere up to a maximum of 32GB), the Kodak Zi8 can record up to 10 hours of HD video.

Staying Focused

The Kodak Zi8 has two 720p video modes, providing 30fps and 60fps settings. The faster fps mode is perfect for capturing moving objects, as well as the built in image stabilization. One thing is for sure, with the Kodak Zi8, you have a good chance of staying focused, even if you, or your subject, is on the move.

The Kodak Zi8 has many useful features, which help you to create better movies. The “Smart Face” tracking detects when a face is close up and adjusts automatically, to ensure the lighting is correct. The Kodak also provides a x4 zoom, which is twice that of the Flip Mino.

Sharing

Although the Kodak Zi8 has a useful 2.5 inch LCD viewing screen, that is no way to make the most of your HD video! The Zi8 has a built in USB connector, which makes uploading video and pictures to your PC problem free. A HDMI jack is also provided, making it equally stress free to watch your video on the big screen.

Another ingenious thing about the Zi8? Apart from the internal microphone, there is also an external microphone jack, which means you can record in stereo. Be the director, share images, edit and upload. It’s easy with a Kodak Zi8!

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