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| Announced: | Aug 8, 2006 |
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Average rating:
3.90
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Opinion: I use this nice little camera for a while and I really like it. It´s very small and so it´s a very good "alway to have with" camera.
The wide-angle lens is very useful for example if you take pictures of a long building or a bus, train...
The pictures show vivid colours and even at ISO 400 they are not to grainy. ISO 800 and 1000 are noisy but acceptable.
Movie quality is good.
The build quality is very solid because metal is used.
The LCD is very nice.
Problems: The battery life is very poor. Around 100 pictures or 20 minutes of video, not more. I recommend buying one or two spare batteries - and a special charger for them.
If you want to have the most control of the camera, it isn´t the right one for you - shutter speed and so one are fully automatic and you cannot change it. The range of the flash is not really high.
Continuos shooting isn´t really usable, the camera has a too small buffer. I wonder why it doesn´t use the camera-own memory of 32MB.
Build quality is good but the cover for SD-card is only held by a cheap piece of rubber.
Opinion: What drew me to this camera was the 23mm lens and it's size. My wife does real estate on the side, and she's always taking my DSLR to shoot homes. I get nervous because she doesn't know how to handle my DSLR, so I thought the Kodak would be a great choice for her. Besides, it's very tiny, large screen, so we could take it out on trips without having to carry my big monster and lenses everywhere we go. The other 3x lens is OK, nothing spectacular. Never took enough pics to test the battery. I bought it at Costco, so it came with the charging stand and a real nice carry case, for $280. The price can't be beat. The charging stand makes a very nice presentation piece, posing the camera backwards like a picture frame. THe kodak softwar is terrible. Windows didn't recognize the camera, such that you could just drag and drop pics into your folder. You are forced to use the weak consumer grade interface, which is slow and inpractical, and hard to use. I'd recommend a card reader instead.
Problems: The problems were in image quality. Indoor shots are just terrible. ISO is not selectable. Noise is very high, even at low iso. Unacceptable. Outdoors, I'd expect it to excel, but no luck. Image quality still bad, very soft images, out of focus. When you zoom in to look at the pixels on your computer screen, you can see a high degree of artifacts due to compression. In order to fit several pics in its internal 32MB memory, Kodak decided to compress the files so much that each is just over 1MB. For a 7mp camera, that is just way too much compression. My SLR produces 6MB files at 6mp in fine jpg mode. Heck, my 3mp casio EX3000 made 1.3MB files, and the image quality was excellent. The kodak doesn't let you select compression rates. Basically, this camera provides a beautiful package, most practical lens on the market, but falls very very short on image quality under any shooting conditions. I would definitely not recommend it. If you're looking for ultra wide angle lens, look at the Nikon 8400, at 24mm. Otherwise, find yourself a 28mm Canon powershot. I just finished packing up the kodak, and I'm taking it back to costco tomorrow....
Opinion: Phot image quality is good for this camera. I use auto mode in the day, and use Night Landscape in the house. The photo image is good in terms of RGB color brightness and skin tone. I like it.
Opinion: This is truly a sleek camera to take with you anywhere. The wide lense is perfect for point and shoot photography. Compression on the pictures is high, but it's not much of a quality issue - colors are good, and its jpg anyways. Plus you can fit an incredible amout of pictures in 1gb. Video quality is good.
Problems: Some usability trade-offs in favor of looks and design. The lcd-picture is very yellowish indoors. Some problems focusing. Some over-exposure.
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