Pocket Video Camera Review — Kodak Zi8 Vs Flip Mino

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The field of digital camcorders is racing along at the same momentum as the computer industry, gathering an abundance of incredible components in ever smaller packages. Take, for instance, the new pocket video camera that have been developed lately. At this moment, it is largely a competition between just 2 products: the new Kodak Zi8 and the Flip Mino camcorders.

Both products have been carefully designed to capture the advancing market of easy to use and exceptionally portable camcorders with built in abilities that make sharing the videos on the computer and loading them up to the typical social networking sites markedly easy. Let’s do a quick digital video camera review of these two cameras.

Flip and Kodak are both justifiably proud of their respective product lines, and make it easy to catalog lots of information online. Of course, one of the most important features to everyone is the cost, and you will see that they at precisely the same price point, $179.99. So far they’re even.

One important differentiation between these two is that the Kodak Zi8, like most pocket video cameras, has an extremely small 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.

Yet, and this is substantial, the Kodak relies on the use of SD/SDHC memory slots to advance it’s storage capabilities. The Flip Mino leaves you no room for expansion. The Kodak digital video camera can manage up to a 32 GB card for those who want to go all out. What does that mean? Up to 10 HOURS of video recording! That’s a huge plus for Kodak.

One of the things that is alike between the two is they both have a very functional built in USB swing-out arm, so you don’t need camera specific cables. You can just flip 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 connect directly to your HDTV for prompt viewing. A Kodak win.

But from here on, it largely isn’t much of a contest. The Flip Mino, and even it’s big brother the FlipHD, which costs significantly more, can’t compare to the value and caliber of the Kodak Zi8. For the same price, you get a considerably larger view screen, built-in image stablization, full 1080 pixel HD video, and the security that comes with the Kodak name.

Countdown result: the race between these two products is not remotely close at present — the Zi8 pocket digital video camera is first rate. However, don’t presume Flip will sit by quietly as their market share evaporates.

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