I'm glad you noticed! Honestly, I was quite skeptical about this camera but I needed something portable with a good zoom range to fill in the gaps where the 20D with a grip was quite simply too much camera for the job. I have been very impressed with it so far. There are even situations, I'm ashamed to admit, where it out performs the Canon.
I'm going to create a gallery soon with just Kodak 880 pics and write down my thoughts because I'm getting a lot of inquiries about this camera. I'll drop you a line when I'm done.