Zeb Palmer Writes…

I’ll cut to the chase… Here the most recent reply.
Greetings Zeb,
Thank you for your recent note.
We are quite concerned over your experience, and are sorry for any inconvenience or frustration this has caused you.  We will do our best to help you.
Regarding this particular issue, please call our phone support line at 1-800-235-6325 during our [...]

Sorry to say but I got exactly what I expected from kodak tech support. A canned answer that I have seen numerous other people get the same answer. Here for your reading enjoyment is the reply in it’s entirety.
Kodak Digital Support wrote:

Greetings Zeb,

Thank you for your recent visit to the Kodak Web site and question [...]

I’m annoyed. As I’ve previously mentioned I’m playing catch up on here and had totally missed that Kodak recently released a new firmware for the Z1275. Got an email about it and downloaded it a few minutes ago.
I’m annoyed. The change log simply states that this update improves operation above 95 degrees. Odd, I [...]

I chose part two to be about the video mode for two reasons. One, It seems that most of the questions on this camera are about video, two I knew I wouldn’t have much time to write tonight.
The Z1275 has three capture modes; 1280×720 (HD), 640×480 (standard def) and 320×240. I haven’t and won’t test [...]