Kodak almost-glimpsed product tease was indeed a new pocket cam, potentially their best yet. Launching with an MSRP it will overpower the Flip Ultra HD with 1080p recording, an electronic image stabilizer, SDHC card slot and other enhancements.
The Zi8 has an external mic jack, and it'll shoot 5-megapixel stills, track faces of subjects and, according to Kodak, see more details and accurate colors in low light. Now that something we were looking forward to, especially since low light seems to be the biggest bane of these Flip-class cameras.
The Flip UltraHD, which sells for the same amount, only shoots 720p, has no removable storage, and only earned qualified praise from us.
By contrast, one big reason to have high hopes for the Zi8 is that we already loved its predecessor, the Zi6, though we were not terribly impressed with its cheaper weatherproof sibling.The Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera provides one-button upload to Facebook, the premiere social networking and sharing website.
The Zi6 is still fairly fresh in our memory banks, but Kodak already looking ahead with its newly unveiled Zi8 pocket camcorder. The Flip Ultra HD competitor boasts 1080p recording this time around, in addition to usual features like face tracking, image stabilization, a 2.5-inch LCD display, and SD card slot.
