LA Gadgets Examiner Rating: A-
Cisco’s Flip cameras may have been discontinued, but blog cameras will live on. I recently reviewed Sony’s revolutionary (at least for the price) 3D Bloggie HD and now have my hands on the rugged Kodak Playsport Zx5 blog camera, which provides plenty of bank for your buck at around $170. You can purchase it at Best Buy right now (Los Angeles locations here). It is an upgrade to last year’s already excellent PlaySport Zx3.
Basic Specs
Sensor type
1 / 3.2–type 5 MP CMOS
Lens
5.5 mm, 35 mm equivalent
Zoom
4X digital
Display size
2.0 in. 154K TFT color LCD, 4:3, auto brightness control, LCD Glare Shield
Storage
128 MB internal memory[1], SD/SDHC card expansion slot (up to 32 GB)
File formats
video: MPEG-4, AAC-LC
still: JPEG/EXIF v2.2
The Playsport takes great quality 1080p videos and allows you to take them in different modes: Normal, High Saturation, ‘70s Film, Black & White, and Sepia. It would have been great if the PlaySport took videos with stereo audio, but the sound quality is still very good.
One of the great features of the Playsport is the fact you can trim your videos right on the camera. It certainly won’t replace your desktop video editing software, but it does come in handy. This feature, as well as other of the Playsport’s features, are easy to learn. You will only have to look at the directions if you aren’t familiar with digital camera technology.
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