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Video camera required for incoming students

Kodak Zi8 (left) and Zi10 cameras.

First-year Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication students are required to purchase one of the following video cameras before the start of the school year:

Kodak Zi8 or Zi10 (Playtouch) camera.

These cameras will be used to create photos and videos in the Multimedia Journalism Lab (J31), which all first-year SJMC students take in their first semester of school.

The following cameras are also acceptable options:

  • iPod Touch 4th generation
  • iPhone 4
  • Canon PowerShot SX230HS

It is also recommended (but not required) that students buy a tripod, either a full-size tripod or a table-top version.