Compared to... Samsung Digimax Pro815

Although they're not strictly directly comparable it's fair to assume that anyone in the market for a P880 might also consider the Samsung Pro815 - if only because it too has a fairly wide (28mm equiv.) lens and is in a similar price bracket. Below you will find a studio comparison between the Kodak P880 and the 8MP Samsung Pro815. We have included samples for the lowest and highest ISO settings for each camera; (ISO 50 and 400).

Studio scene comparison (@ ISO 50)

• Kodak EasyShare P880: Aperture Priority mode, ISO 50, Default Image Parameters, Manual white balance, +0.67 EV compensation
   
• Samsung Pro815 : Aperture Priority mode, ISO 50, Default Image Parameters, Manual white balance, +1.0 EV compensation
   
• Lighting: daylight simulation, >98% CRI.

Kodak EasyShare P880	Samsung Pro815
ISO 50, 1/40 sec, F5.0	ISO 50, 1/60 sec, F5.0
4,412 KB JPEG	3,845 KB JPEG

From a detail point of view there's little if any meaningful difference between these two cameras (both of which, interestingly, sport 'Schneider' badged lenses). The Pro815 - as noted when we reviewed it - suffers from 'turn everything up to 11' syndrome, meaning the images are over-sharpened, too contrasty and highly saturated. By comparison the P880 looks positively subdued. As both cameras have options to alter sharpness / saturation / contrast, and both have raw capture modes, I think it's fair to say that - at ISO 50 - with a bit of tweaking of the settings you could easily produce results that were nigh on indistinguishable.