Kodak PlayTouch (black)

• Average user rating: 1.5 stars out of 6 reviews
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• 2 stars

  Easy to use camera, but very poor quality.

  by irmags on April 6, 2013

  Pros: Easy to use
  convenient
  compact

  Cons: battery over heat
  shuts off after 15-20 min of use to to over heating
  saves only some of the videos I shoot.

  Summary: I lost a lot of good memories on this camera because it kept shutting off so I didn't save the video before it shut off, I lost the video. ...

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  Summary: I lost a lot of good memories on this camera because it kept shutting off so I didn't save the video before it shut off, I lost the video. Seriously!??!! what a mess. Truly disappointed with the quality of the camera. Based on the quality and effects of the camera, it should be worth about $80. My cell phone does a better job.

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• 4 stars

  Great video/images in good lighting,touch screen broken

  by supadupa64 on November 10, 2011

  Pros: All you people who say this camera has bad quality must be totally noobs at video and photography. This video camera is great for shooting outdoors. It's actually has very good quality with good lighting. Shooting indoors will be slightly grainy because

  Cons: 2 months after I got the video camera the touch screen calibration got all messed up and hated trying to use the sreen. It's still messed up and if I had know this was going to happen I would have never got it. Other than it having terrible a terrible m

  Summary: Great video and pictures in good lighting, but a disaster in touch screen calibration. If it actually works how's it's suppose to it's great but the fact ...

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  Summary: Great video and pictures in good lighting, but a disaster in touch screen calibration. If it actually works how's it's suppose to it's great but the fact is it doesn't. I wouldn't choose this one again only because the touch calibration is so messed up, totally worthless to use. Get one that has buttons only.

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• 1 stars

  Useless camera ,not good picture very blurry

  by Baracuda99 on March 20, 2011

  Pros: nicely designed

  Cons: picture on screen doesn't look clear

  Summary: This Kodak camera I really liked so I decided to buy it but I was very disappointed because the picture was blurry and black and white and has no control ...

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  Summary: This Kodak camera I really liked so I decided to buy it but I was very disappointed because the picture was blurry and black and white and has no control so week after I had returned

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• 4 stars

  Poor image on camcorder, useless still camera

  by mseaman1 on October 4, 2010

  Pros: It's easy to carry and the touchscreen is easy to navigate.

  Cons: Picture on "HD" sure doesn't look clear. Still camera is useless... poor resolution and blurry quality

  Summary: Bought it, used it for a day, returned it.

  Summary: Bought it, used it for a day, returned it.

• 8 stars

  Not bad at all

  by ibrows on March 25, 2011

  Pros: Stylish , simple to use, easy uploading and sharing, movie files are mp4.

  Cons: Movies shot in 1080 are mediocre, onboard memory is useless.

  Summary: Let me start off by saying now that the price has broken on this camera it is pretty well worth it. You SHOULD NOT expect to get the quality of ...

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  Summary: Let me start off by saying now that the price has broken on this camera it is pretty well worth it. You SHOULD NOT expect to get the quality of a $500 camcorder in this $150 package. For what it is this product is very good. All of the recording modes llok great, except for the 1080 mode which looks very shaky and blurry when displayed on an HDTV. Both 720 @30 fps and @60 fps look great on an HDTV. The onboard memory is only useful for testing out video quality in VGA mode, though with most pocket camcorders today, you have to buy additional memory to get any real use out of the product. Otherwise this camera is easy to use and takes very nice videos outside and in well lit rooms indoors. When this camera came out originally it was overpriced, but now that it has been otu for a while, and the price has become reasonable it is well worth considering if you are in the market for a pocket cam.

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• 2 stars

  Not as good as many cell phone cameras

  by MV on September 27, 2010

  Pros: Good connectivity options.

  Cons: Camera has no white balance control. Are you freaking kidding me?

  Summary: I'm a professional cameraman and heard the CEO of Kodak speak about this camera line last spring. It's sounded like it could be fun to mess around with, ...

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  Summary: I'm a professional cameraman and heard the CEO of Kodak speak about this camera line last spring. It's sounded like it could be fun to mess around with, and nice to have as something that could always be carried. But the controls aren't up to snuff with that you find on many Android phones nowadays. The fatal ending to whatever hope that I would ever give Kodak another shot? No white balance control. It's all automatic. That might not normally be so bad, because many cameras do a very fine job of handling color automatically, but not this camera. Color of scenes shot indoors were a mess. I honestly never expected it could be as bad as it is. It's going back.
  
  Updated on Sep 30, 2010

  I started to feel that I had possibly not given this camera a fair shake, so I tested further. The camera comes with no SD card and the internal memory is enough to only shoot about 20 seconds. Kodak can't even throw a one gig SD card into the package? The quality seemed ok when viewed on the camera's small screen, so I hooked it up to my HDTV using the included HDMI cable. It worked and I could view the 20 second movie on my TV. The compression artifacts are so bad that at first I wondered if there was a malfunction or the connection was bad. Unfortunately that was not the case. The quality is simply horrible. It doesn't equal the quality of a low end standard definition consumer camcorder. People, measuring resolution is meaningless under such compression. When my wife saw it she looked at me like I am some kind of an idiot. I feel shame at myself, at my research skills, at the Kodak CEO, and at CNET for misleading me to believe that these cameras have any merit to them whatsoever.

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