20080221 - I bought Kodak v570 to make wide-angle indoor real estate shots for the web + the cool 'virtual tour' stitch feature (I tried it at CES Las Vegas when it was first announced). The quality of daylight photos is better than indoor of course -- in fact I still use old DC-260 which can shoot in less-lossy .fpx format -- for some 72 ppi webshots. I miss not having DC's manual focus option of preset fixed focus choices. Interestingly enough I use the video mode as much as still -- for real estate and holidays. With the little camera looped around my neck and tucked in my shirt pocket, making a vacation video is quick and painless. Use ConvertMovie to uncompress the .mov files to big fat .avi files and it's a snap to edit and create even a cheap DVD movie w/ Microsoft Movie Maker.
Oh, and the automatic guillotine lenscover is unbeatable batmobile cool. Was in a motorcycle accident and machine was totaled. v570 around my neck took a little dent but it works fine and lenses are perfect. I didn't fare as well. ha.
Problems:
I bought 1 extra battery and an off-brand charger. Otherwise you have to charge batteries while in camera / in camera dock. Forget even usb 2.0 -- get a card reader.
Oh, and the automatic guillotine lenscover is unbeatable batmobile cool. Was in a motorcycle accident and machine was totaled. v570 around my neck took a little dent but it works fine and lenses are perfect. I didn't fare as well. ha.
Problems:
I bought 1 extra battery and an off-brand charger. Otherwise you have to charge batteries while in camera / in camera dock. Forget even usb 2.0 -- get a card reader.