- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 31 reviews Back to product review
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10 out of 11 people found this review helpful
4.0 stars
"Very cool camera, but careful what SD card you buy!"
Pros: Small and portable, yet not short on quality. Very sleek design. Screen is visible indoors and out. Video upload and editing is extremely simple with preloaded software. The memory card slot gives it the edge over a Flip.
Cons: Panning is touchy, it takes a steady hand but not terribly difficult. Kodak says up to 32MB card works, but only 8MB or less allows playback on the screen, anything bigger and you have to load to a PC to view the videos.
Summary: I would recommend this product again. I really like the small size and I didn't have to sacrifice a lot in the quality department. This is not a high-end HD camera, so you can't expect it to compare. For what it is, I think this camera is the best in its class. I would liked to have known about the SD card incompatibility before I wasted money ordering, and returning, a card to large to view videos on the screen. On the Kodak FAQ page, they tell you only up to 8MB has been tested, even though they claim compatability up to 32MB. Overall, good camera and I would buy again!!
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Do you really mean to say only 8 MB MEGABITs or is it 8 GB (GIGABITs)
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I have a cheapo 16GB SD card in my Zi6 ($10 off ebay), and once formatted properly, using the panasonic formatting programme, it works a treat and can playback too....so perhaps your card just needed proper formatting. The windows XP generic formatter isn't good enough. You can get the panasonic programme from:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
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