Comments on: Kodak Zi8 Review – Part 1 – Video Samples

By: Marlin Higashida

Marlin Higashida — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:16:36 +0000

Wow Great blog , i am gonna visit back soon…

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:35:09 +0000

I own one, bought it because it was the only 1920×1080 shooting camera for 180 bucks. I run a Macbook pro w/ dual 2.4Ghz processors. No skips playing in quicktime. Don’t care for the ‘digital’ zoom. But I have found that shooting under normal light in normal conditions has been exactly what I expected from this camera. I love it (180.00US). Being able to toggle a switch to shoot a 5mp image is nice. I carry this in my front pocket, shoot birds, daughters and make visual notes. I would have never bought a ‘kodak’ product, but I’m glad I did.

By: r4i

r4i — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:25:40 +0000

I love this little camera! The picture and sound quality are so far superior to my Flip camera it’s not even funny. Waaaaay better. Very quick and easy to use, bright colors, sharp images, good sound. I use this for my business in a variety of ways and it’s great.

By: figitalrevolution

figitalrevolution — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:44:30 +0000

This is a computer issue… how long is your video and how old is your computer… a long video can be quite large, esp 1080 video… I just save on my mac all video into iPhoto and then select them in iMovie from the library….

By: dan

dan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:48:44 +0000

so i’ve saved the videos i recorded using the zi8 on my computer and when i try to open the folder it takes at least 20 minutes for the files to show up. if i open the dcim folder the same thing happens. any idea whats goin on there?

By: figitalrevolution

figitalrevolution — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:50:34 +0000

I agree that the Sony is a fantastic camera but at $481 US Amazon price it is MUCH more expensive and larger than the Zi8… no one I know has said that the Zi8 is better than the Sony… they are different cameras for different applications.

Cheers-
Stephen

By: piperfect

piperfect — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:08 +0000

Is there any decent demo video of this camera available. That demo footage was not impressive.
I have a hard time believing it is better than the Sanyo VPC-FH1

By: dave

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:39:57 +0000

i have never been able to upgrade the firmware for the zi8 i have the upgrade i have done like it says and nothing happens firmware never upgrades . any suggestions ? i have the 103 on the camera

By: dave

dave — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:35:03 +0000

i have the zi8 its ok the first thing i noticed is you have to find the rite sd card that will record till you actually stop the video . i have a adata 16 gb and it stops on its own after just a few miniutes of video i put a 8 gb toshbia card in and it recorded till i stopped it. i have 2 adata 16 gb cards i tryed them both and neither one would record very long with out the camera just shutting down . the sound of course built in is mono . its not as easy recording with a viewer straight up and not angled like most . and the really big down for me is no remote i did buy a optional remote from kodak . and the video can only be played back 1 file at a time not one ater the other like most camcorders automaticaly . the quality is very good . i also have the aiptek 8 gb hd pen cam great as well but ony 720 at 30 frames and no remote with built in battery pack not removable like the kodak . its very annoying to me as long as hd video has been around for cameras you still cant save it in hd form and watch it back till they make a reasonable hd burner . you can still save the files on a dvd and when it ever comes avalible then it all has to be transferred to a blue ray not looking forward to that because i have many files waiting to be transferred to blueray .

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:22:25 +0000

Yeah my computer is not an issue but I was not aware there is playback software that is on the camera. I was aging through QuickTime not realizing there would be an issue. Hmm I plugged the camera in and it shows a CDROM but says it unreadable. Hmmm.