as you already know from our Email exchange in the last few weeks, that my experience was the same with the Zi8. However, you seem to have a much more cleaner and crispier image quality than anything I have been able to do indoors, even with a 300 WATT strobe light.
Did you change the firmware at all or do anything else? I know you said you did not do any post production on the clip, but still, your colours are also nice and strong. (Looking at the blacks for example)
Happy New Year to you and the family. You are rapidly becoming Inspector Gadget with all these new toys recently....it must be great having a job that allows these sorts of purchases. Any chance of a Video comment on your new DroboPro or is that the subject of a new show?
Thanks! Believe me when I tell you how much I really do appreciate the opportunity to try out these gadgets as part of my day job. I don't take it for granted at all!
As far as the DroboPro is concerned, I probably will do a Drobo based show in the near future.
I thought the video when streamed through YouTube was extremely acceptable using your study/studio lighting and the colours seemed a little nicer than the Sony (maybe Kodak were trying to emulate the old 35mm Kodachrome colours?).
I had tried the earlier Kodak Zi6 and was very disappointed. I purchased this as a sort of 'scene cam' to use with multi-camera edits, particularly of presentations etc. Unfortunately it would shut down (actually to be more accurate, 'lock-up', requiring a battery eject to get things going again). This would happen at random times, but would ALWAYS occur at some point if you left the device recording. Two devices, different SDHC cards but both had the same problem.
Have you tried an Eye-Fi SDHC card yet Don? I've found these to be life changing and I suspect will work well with the Kodak camera.
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 3:52PM
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Hi Don,
as you already know from our Email exchange in the last few weeks, that my experience was the same with the Zi8. However, you seem to have a much more cleaner and crispier image quality than anything I have been able to do indoors, even with a 300 WATT strobe light.
Did you change the firmware at all or do anything else? I know you said you did not do any post production on the clip, but still, your colours are also nice and strong. (Looking at the blacks for example)
Hi Lee,
Nothing was done to the clip. The firmware is 1.03 but that was what came with the device.
Cheers Don,
I checked and I have 1.06, I doubt Kodak made the image processor worse, might just be my light setup if nothing else. :-)
Thank you so much for your fast replies, much appreciated!
Don,
Happy New Year to you and the family. You are rapidly becoming Inspector Gadget with all these new toys recently....it must be great having a job that allows these sorts of purchases. Any chance of a Video comment on your new DroboPro or is that the subject of a new show?
John
John,
Thanks! Believe me when I tell you how much I really do appreciate the opportunity to try out these gadgets as part of my day job. I don't take it for granted at all!
As far as the DroboPro is concerned, I probably will do a Drobo based show in the near future.
Hi Don,
I thought the video when streamed through YouTube was extremely acceptable using your study/studio lighting and the colours seemed a little nicer than the Sony (maybe Kodak were trying to emulate the old 35mm Kodachrome colours?).
I had tried the earlier Kodak Zi6 and was very disappointed. I purchased this as a sort of 'scene cam' to use with multi-camera edits, particularly of presentations etc. Unfortunately it would shut down (actually to be more accurate, 'lock-up', requiring a battery eject to get things going again). This would happen at random times, but would ALWAYS occur at some point if you left the device recording. Two devices, different SDHC cards but both had the same problem.
Have you tried an Eye-Fi SDHC card yet Don? I've found these to be life changing and I suspect will work well with the Kodak camera.
Keep up the good work!
Regards
David.
I love the ZI8 and the Eye-Fi, but not together. The Kodak locks up with the Eye-Fi, but not with a regular SD card.