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- The size of a credit card, ultra-thin, lightweight yet durable and waterproof to 3m
- Share on FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE sites with ease. Built-in software makes editing and uploading simple
- No cables to worry about, just swing out the USB arm to upload, share, and charge
- Expandable memory card slot and rechargeable Li-Ion battery
- High-quality VGA 30 fps video even in low light, 4.6 cm (1.8") LCD
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Pocket-sized, waterproof mini video camera with great performance
With the explosion of sites like YouTube and Facebook there is a huge demand for easy ways to shoot and share video clips. The KODAK Mini Video Camera is one of a new generation of ‘shoot and share’ camcorders that is designed to go anywhere. It’s about the size of a credit card and lightweight so it easily slides inside a pocket – even your skinny jeans; plus it’s built to be waterproof1 and durable to withstand your craziest days.
With the KODAK Mini’s intuitive controls it’s incredibly easy to shoot great quality video where ever life takes you. Showing off those videos is just as easy whether you share them immediately on the 4.6 cm (1.8 in) vivid, high-contrast color LCD or pop out the built-in USB arm and connect Mini to your computer for hassle-free connectivity – no cables to remember!
The KODAK Mini is always ready.
The KODAK Mini may be “itty-bitty” – the size of a credit card and weighs only 70g with battery and card – but it’s big on video fun. You really can shoot video just about anywhere -- including up to 3m (10 ft.) underwater! The Mini is also surprisingly good at capturing low light video, such as landscapes at dusk or low light scenes indoors.
KODAK Mini is designed so you’ll never miss the moment. Power on and you are immediately ready to record with its ultra simple one-button operation – just press the OK button in the center of the navigation controller to start/stop recording video. There’s a built-in mic that’ ll automatically record sound too. Information icons on the recording screen keep you current on Mini’s recording status – recording indicator (a red circle appears when recording), elapsed recording time, battery level, zoom level, the selected video resolution or still photo mode, and confirmation whether a memory card is inserted. The three buttons have a soft rubberized feel for excellent control whatever the conditions and the wrist strap will help you keep Mini secure.
The first time you connect the M590 Digital Camera to your computer, KODAK’s Share Button app (a small software program) will launch and prompt you to add login information for your online sharing sites and email address. After that one time setup, pictures will be uploaded to the sharing destinations you’ve chosen automatically just as soon as you connect your camera to your computer.
The Mini’s lens is fixed focus so everything from 50 cm (1.6 ft) to infinity will be in focus and there is no focus lag time when you press record or take a still picture. The up/down navigation arrows control 3X digital zoom. Use the right navigation arrow to change capture modes – VGA (default), QVGA/30, QVGA/60 or still pictures. VGA provides the highest resolution (640x480), QVGA (320x240) creates smaller file sizes, and QVGA/60 (60 frames per second) is the best choice for shooting fast action scenes. The still pictures are 640x480 which is good for email and wallet-size prints. Press the left button to access Menu options:
- Review: playback videos with sound, view pictures, and delete videos/pictures
- Date/Time: set date/time and select viewing format
- Brightness: set screen brightness level to low, medium or high
- Sound: turn camera sounds on or off
- Format Card: Note: formatting a memory card will delete all files saved to the card.
- Information: shows firmware version and ARCSOFT software version.
There’s a microSD/SDHC card slot which provides memory expansion up to a 16GB microSDHC card that’s good for up to 4 hours of video at VGA 30fps (1GB = approx. 15mins) with continuous video capture up to 1 hour per file. If you run out of memory on the go you can simply change to a new card.
The KODAK Mini comes with a powerful integrated Li-Polymer rechargeable battery (~85 minutes recording time per charge) so you have longer record time than camcorders using AA batteries and the battery recharges conveniently in-camera using the built-in USB arm so you won’t need a separate battery charger.
Easy to share on YouTube & Facebook
On the go you can shoot and review your clips immediately on the 4.6 cm color LCD screen, and sharing online is quick and easy with no cables to worry about – just open the bottom door and swing out the built-in USB arm to unload, share, and charge.
The first time you connect a KODAK Mini to your computer, you’ll be asked to install ArcSoft MediaImpression SE for Kodak software (PC only) that’s built-in and ready to use to import your videos and then play, email, and upload with easy one button upload to YouTube and Facebook! You can also cut, trim, extract still pictures, and add effects to your movies (black-and-white, sepia, old movie, fisheye, exposure, sketch, sharpen, negative, water color, and mute audio). If you’re a Mac user, no worries, simply drag-and-drop your videos to your desktop as you would for any USB device and use APPLE iLIFE software.
1 up to 3m (10 ft.) underwater
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Kodak Mini Video Camera - Camcorder - 300 Kpix - supported memory: microSD, micr
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115 of 116 people found the following review helpful
Colour Name:Red|Amazon Vine™ Review
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Kodak's ZM1 Pocket Video Camera is clearly aimed at the Facebook and YouTube generation who want to create and share clips online as easily and as cheaply as possible - and for that use it pretty much fits the bill. The video quality is a step up from most mobile-phone cameras (but not the better smart-phones) with surprisingly good colour rendition in lower lights - but of course you don't get high-resolution. Sound quality is a bit weak but, to be fair to Kodak, fitting a microphone in a waterproof camera must be a challenge.
The bottom of the camera flips open to reveal the memory card slot and pop-out USB connector, these are protected from moisture by a rubber seal running around the lid and a tight clip which then holds the lid in place. On my camera the fixing clip doesn't sit completely flush within the bottom of the camera and I'd be slightly concerned it could get caught on something in use and flip open the lid by mistake - it also prevents the camera from sitting perfectly straight when you put it down on a table, although this isn't really the kind of camera you'd use that way. The pop-out USB connector means you don't have to carry any cables around with you but in use it's a bit awkward - you have to release it with a tiny clip before and after use and having the whole camera hanging out of the side of your computer isn't exactly an elegant solution - but it works.
As a cheap(ish) and cheerful pocketable video camera its main selling point is the waterproof housing which should make it ideal for a British summer or for splashing around on some foreign beach. You don't get the best quality video but this camera is so small and light that you're more likely to have it with you ready to capture those fleeting moments when they happen. Don't forget to budget for a memory card as the inbuilt storage is only enough for a few minutes of video - a 4GB card for example will store approximately one hour of video at VGA quality, which is about as long as the battery lasts on a single charge.
The bottom of the camera flips open to reveal the memory card slot and pop-out USB connector, these are protected from moisture by a rubber seal running around the lid and a tight clip which then holds the lid in place. On my camera the fixing clip doesn't sit completely flush within the bottom of the camera and I'd be slightly concerned it could get caught on something in use and flip open the lid by mistake - it also prevents the camera from sitting perfectly straight when you put it down on a table, although this isn't really the kind of camera you'd use that way. The pop-out USB connector means you don't have to carry any cables around with you but in use it's a bit awkward - you have to release it with a tiny clip before and after use and having the whole camera hanging out of the side of your computer isn't exactly an elegant solution - but it works.
As a cheap(ish) and cheerful pocketable video camera its main selling point is the waterproof housing which should make it ideal for a British summer or for splashing around on some foreign beach. You don't get the best quality video but this camera is so small and light that you're more likely to have it with you ready to capture those fleeting moments when they happen. Don't forget to budget for a memory card as the inbuilt storage is only enough for a few minutes of video - a 4GB card for example will store approximately one hour of video at VGA quality, which is about as long as the battery lasts on a single charge.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Colour Name:Red|Amazon Vine™ Review
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This cheerful little video camera is a very nice toy, rather than a serious camera. It's aimed at people who just want to press one big button, record their baby or their X Factor audition and put it up on Facebook or YouTube with the minimum of fuss, and in that way it does well.
I used the camera to put together a test video which I've put on YouTube. If you search for my real name and "mundane in the life" it should show up and give you an idea of the camera's performance indoors and outdoors and in low and high lighting.
The design and build of it is sturdy and a bit chunky-feeling- Kodak have clearly concentrated on features like 'waterproof' and 'rugged' (it would probably survive some hefty drops) rather than 'sleek'. It doesn't look especially 'cool' compared to some of the other cameras you can get. It's about three-quarters of the size of the iPod classic that it seems to have been designed to look like. (And incidentally, the round central button that looks like a jogwheel, isn't a jogwheel).
If you buy this camera you should DEFINITELY also buy some MicroSD cards at the same time. The camera only comes with 128Mb internal memory, a lot of which is reserved for the onboard software so it can only store 2 minutes of video before it's full (!). A 2Gb MicroSD card, available on Amazon for around a fiver, will give you over an hour's recording time at the highest video quality it can do- which is actually more than the Amazon description suggests.
The video quality is not outstanding, and other cameras and cameraphones are capable of much better resolutions. The best-quality video the ZM1 is capable of (VGA mode) has the following tech spec:
- 640x480, which is 4:3 not widescreen, and a little less than TV standard definition resolution.
- 30 frames per second, which is an American standard- you can't change this to the European standard 25fps which could be a problem if you ever want to put your movies onto DVD
- Between 5 and 6Mbps- a little bit high compared to other video formats
- 11kbps mono audio- a bit poor, technically less than a quarter of CD quality
The onboard microphone is OK, but gets overloaded too easily with loud noise and isn't good at filtering out background noise, so if you're in an air conditioned room the 'hum' will get picked up.
Also on the subject of 'hum', if you're shooting somewhere that there's flourescent lights you can end up with a phasing problem where the whole picture appears to strobe a bit- this is due to the conflicting frequencies between the camera scanning and the room lighting. If you've ever pointed a video camera at a computer monitor you may have seen that effect before.
The bundled software is PC only, and consists of some fairly basic tools to make uploading to YouTube and Facebook a little more convenient. For people who want things simplified they might be nice little tools, but uploading without the software is not exactly difficult. Whether you're on PC or Mac, you can also set it so all your videos and photos appear in a normal file window so you can copy and paste them like any other file.
The USB slot design is quite nifty- the 'stick' pops out when you press a release button. I couldn't actually figure it out until I looked at the manual. It's a nice design feature but it is a tiny bit fiddly getting the stick to pop back into the camera.
These are two minor gripes. Firstly, when you plug the camera into your computer USB port, it doesn't show up as a device unless you switch it on. This is unusual behaviour for a USB memory stick and originally made me think it was broken. Secondly, when you change MiniSD card, or switch from a card to the internal memory, the incrementing filename numbering is reset, meaning you can end up with several files with exactly the same name, which is bad practice and the kind of thing most digital cameras are normally programmed to avoid.
Overall the ZM1 is a decent toy, and if you want the video equivalent of a happy-snap camera just for fun moments and video diaries, it's a good product. If video quality is an issue though you may want to look at spending more and getting more.
I used the camera to put together a test video which I've put on YouTube. If you search for my real name and "mundane in the life" it should show up and give you an idea of the camera's performance indoors and outdoors and in low and high lighting.
The design and build of it is sturdy and a bit chunky-feeling- Kodak have clearly concentrated on features like 'waterproof' and 'rugged' (it would probably survive some hefty drops) rather than 'sleek'. It doesn't look especially 'cool' compared to some of the other cameras you can get. It's about three-quarters of the size of the iPod classic that it seems to have been designed to look like. (And incidentally, the round central button that looks like a jogwheel, isn't a jogwheel).
If you buy this camera you should DEFINITELY also buy some MicroSD cards at the same time. The camera only comes with 128Mb internal memory, a lot of which is reserved for the onboard software so it can only store 2 minutes of video before it's full (!). A 2Gb MicroSD card, available on Amazon for around a fiver, will give you over an hour's recording time at the highest video quality it can do- which is actually more than the Amazon description suggests.
The video quality is not outstanding, and other cameras and cameraphones are capable of much better resolutions. The best-quality video the ZM1 is capable of (VGA mode) has the following tech spec:
- 640x480, which is 4:3 not widescreen, and a little less than TV standard definition resolution.
- 30 frames per second, which is an American standard- you can't change this to the European standard 25fps which could be a problem if you ever want to put your movies onto DVD
- Between 5 and 6Mbps- a little bit high compared to other video formats
- 11kbps mono audio- a bit poor, technically less than a quarter of CD quality
The onboard microphone is OK, but gets overloaded too easily with loud noise and isn't good at filtering out background noise, so if you're in an air conditioned room the 'hum' will get picked up.
Also on the subject of 'hum', if you're shooting somewhere that there's flourescent lights you can end up with a phasing problem where the whole picture appears to strobe a bit- this is due to the conflicting frequencies between the camera scanning and the room lighting. If you've ever pointed a video camera at a computer monitor you may have seen that effect before.
The bundled software is PC only, and consists of some fairly basic tools to make uploading to YouTube and Facebook a little more convenient. For people who want things simplified they might be nice little tools, but uploading without the software is not exactly difficult. Whether you're on PC or Mac, you can also set it so all your videos and photos appear in a normal file window so you can copy and paste them like any other file.
The USB slot design is quite nifty- the 'stick' pops out when you press a release button. I couldn't actually figure it out until I looked at the manual. It's a nice design feature but it is a tiny bit fiddly getting the stick to pop back into the camera.
These are two minor gripes. Firstly, when you plug the camera into your computer USB port, it doesn't show up as a device unless you switch it on. This is unusual behaviour for a USB memory stick and originally made me think it was broken. Secondly, when you change MiniSD card, or switch from a card to the internal memory, the incrementing filename numbering is reset, meaning you can end up with several files with exactly the same name, which is bad practice and the kind of thing most digital cameras are normally programmed to avoid.
Overall the ZM1 is a decent toy, and if you want the video equivalent of a happy-snap camera just for fun moments and video diaries, it's a good product. If video quality is an issue though you may want to look at spending more and getting more.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Colour Name:Grey|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a very good purchase at a great price of £][. If you search on YouTube for this device you will find several very good reviews that show you how to set up and use this video camera. I bought a Lowepro Altus 10 Small Camera Pouch from Amazon for £2.29 and free postage that the camcorder fits into very snugly. Lowepro Altus 10 Small Camera Pouch ideal for Canon Ixus 80,Ixus 85, Ixus 95, Ixus 100, Ixus 105, Sony Cybershot, and Panasonic FX & FS series, Samsung ES15, ES55, Fuji J30 - black This is a good device to use on the beach and in the sea. I will use it rather than my mobile phone camcorder in wet conditions. It is so small and thin that you can carry it around in a shirt pocket.
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Good gadget
Have been looking for a decent waterproof camera at a good price and this does everything it says. As it says you can use it in either video or camera mode and the picture quality... Read more
Published 25 days ago by Mark
Excellent Camera
We bought this item for our 7 year old son as it seemed easy to use and lightweight.
I did not expect to be able to use it as our main camera/video camera
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I did not expect to be able to use it as our main camera/video camera
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Published 1 month ago by RachShads
Cheapest Waterproof Camcorder and not bad too!
I bought this camcorder exactly a year ago now just before my holiday to Florida so I was striving to use it a beaches and water parks. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lujadris
complaint
i would like to complain about how good this camera is mine was faulty on arrival and is now barley working.
Published 1 month ago by caleb urq
Practical
It is good, for the price, interesting the size, I have not tried in water yet, but it is very practical for the activities of my son, usually they cannot use expensive cameras,... Read more
Published 2 months ago by mvinicio
Great Value for money
Value for money, does what it says it does. Don't know why some comments here are going on about lack of HD - get over it. Bought for older child - so far it is in one piece. Read more
Published 2 months ago by F. Ward
Great for beginner
I purchased this item for my eight year old niece.
She enjoyed it so much that all her other Christmas gifts were irrelevant. She thought it was the best gift ever!!
She enjoyed it so much that all her other Christmas gifts were irrelevant. She thought it was the best gift ever!!
Published 3 months ago by Diamond
Kodak Camera
Small, compact, still and video waterproof camera.
Exactly what was advertised,just what I was looking for.
Another winner from kodak
Exactly what was advertised,just what I was looking for.
Another winner from kodak
Published 8 months ago by alan
Great purchase!
I am quite pleased with that product even though I would have loved it with a flash. The fact that you can't send it back to the retailer after just opening the box it's a shame as... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Soymilkable
Good for all action days, but quality is low so not for picture snobs
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