The Kodak Z712 IS Digital Camera combines an impressive 12X optical zoom lens with optical image stabilization and 7.1 megapixels, plus face detection and manual controls – all useful features. It also has an electronic viewfinder – i would ask Kodak manufacturers why not optic? The body tends to look like a slr but the hand grip is not of rubber and it is smaller and lighter. Almost all the controls are on the right-hand side of the camera. As for the image quality, Kodak cameras, and this one is no exception, tend to have noticeable fringing and artifacts, plus some visible noise and softness; colors are slightly oversaturated. A good thing, however, is that shoot to shoot time is fast even with flash on. I can conclude that this camera has all the features anyone could wish for, and, you have 2 choices: either you want a cheap camera with all the features – this is the one (and I suggest using it at lower ISO only), or you have some more money and buy a camera with better image quality at higher ISO.
Kodak EasyShare Z712 IS Specifications

Kodak EasyShare Z712 IS

Kodak EasyShare Z712 IS

Kodak EasyShare Z712 IS

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This digital camera targets more advanced photographers, like the ones between compacts and SLR’s. Therefore, starting from its robust silver design, it won’t fit your pocket, it has a large comfortable viewfinder, pop-up flash, offers histogram display on the LCD, and it is equipped with SLR-like buttons. The shutter speed goes up to 16 sec, the optical zoom goes to an impressive 12x, manual modes (aperture priority, shutter priority, manual) are available, exposure, metering are also adjustable, but no manual white balance. According to Kodak, every time you click the shutter, the Kodak Color Science Chip performs an instantaneous and advanced analysis of collected scene data to identify and adjust multiple factors that influence picture quality. To help you take better pictures, this camera comes with image stabilization. Some special features include Favourites feature, Share button, One Touch to Better Pictures feature. However, the image quality is better for Canon Powershot S3 in this range of cameras even if this one does not have image stabilization. Optionally you can purchase KODAK EASYSHARE Camera Dock Series 3, KODAK EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500 or KODAK EASYSHARE Printer Dock Plus Series 3.
Kodak EasyShare Z612 Specifications

Kodak EasyShare Z612

Kodak EasyShare Z612

Kodak EasyShare Z612

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This high resolution point-and-shot camera comes in 8 different colors of its fancy slim design, made of metal and plastic, with few buttons. No manual controls, no viewfinder: definitely a family camera. From all the scene modes, I’m glad it has a panorama assist, but then again: it won’t keep the original photos.
Battery consumption is about the average (200 shots). Shutter lag is as slow as 3 sec, and in low light it hardly focuses right. One thing I like is the blur warning and image stabilization. As for the image quality, it’s kind of noisy, with not very accurate white balance, purple fringing is well controlled, colors are highly saturated. If you are interested in making short movies with this camera, I can fortunately say that you can use the zoom while filming. Kodak’s PerfectTouch technology will adjust your image, making it ready for high quality printing, while EasyShare system makes it easy to tag photos for e-mailing and printing.
Kodak EasyShare V803 Specifications

Kodak EasyShare V803

Kodak EasyShare V803

Kodak EasyShare V803

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The Kodak EasyShare C653 digital camera is an affordable and clever 6.1 megapixel camera, with a rather robust unstylish metal design. I say clever because it features Kodak Perfect Touch technology, cropping, digital red-eye reduction, blurry picture alert and anti-blur mode, panorama stitch mode, High ISO scene mode, capture framing grid and undo-delete, plus that it has a viewfinder. Still: with this kind of design I expected more manual controls. The Kodak AF 3X Optical Aspheric Lens captures crisp details. Compared to other Kodak point-and-shot’s, this one deserves my recommendation. Note that it uses AA NI-MH rechargeable batteries and SD memory card that are easy to find anywhere in case you need replacements.
Kodak Easyshare C653 Specifications

Kodak Easyshare C653

Kodak Easyshare C653

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This solid 8-megapixel point-and-shoot is not very stylish and does not really fit in pockets, but it includes Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority, and Manual modes. It comes with a mode dial on top, a joystick on the back and a few other intuitive buttons. You have quick access the photos that you’ve tagged as favourites and the Smart Scene Mode will attempt to automatically select the right scene mode. Many people report problems regarding the functionality of the flash. Another thing that might let you thing it’s not the right camera for you is the lack of image stabilisation (it does have Blur Warning), which results in blurry pictures in low light (also focuses hard in low light). Another fact is the acceptable lens distortion and artefacts on the Kodak’s C875 images. The noise-reduction, however, performs well, and white balance produces slightly warm color tones. Red eye removal is not a problem since the on-camera software handle it and, one last thing: PerfectTouch feature improves photo quality at the push of one button.
Kodak EasyShare C875 Specifications

Kodak EasyShare C875

Kodak EasyShare C875

Kodak EasyShare C875

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World’s smallest 10X optical zoom digital camera, with BlueTooth Wireless Technology, featuring Dual Lens Technology Schneider Lenses. Also, it incorporates Image stabilization, in-camera image crop and panorama stitch mode. KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology, blurry picture alert and red eye removal help you even further to take nice clear photos. Optional you can purchase Photo Frame Dock 2 with KODAK EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500 (with Wireless capability) and use using the exclusive on-camera Share button to print or e-mail later. More than that, Favorites feature will keep your special pictures on handy. The V610 is a point-and-shoot camera with no manual controls but a lot of scene modes, providing decent focus times, average noise, saturated colors, blurred corners and bad battery life. Kodak EasyShare software included for both Windows and Mac platforms.
Kodak EasyShare V610

Kodak EasyShare V610
Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Macro, Scene, Panorama, Movie
• Scene Modes: portrait, sport, landscape, close up, night, landscape, snow, beach, fireworks, flower, manner/museum, self-portrait, party, children, backlight, candlelight, sunset, and custom
• Movie Mode: (640 × 480) at 30 fps with sound and zoom, MPEG-4 compression, continuous up to 80 min.
• Effects: Black and White, Sepia, high color, natural color, low color, picture rotation, sharpness setting
• Flash Modes: auto, off, fill, digital red-eye reduction
• White Balance: auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade
• Metering: Multi-pattern, Center-weighted, and Center-spot
Kodak EasyShare V610

Kodak EasyShare V610
Technical Data:
• 2.8 inch LCD
• 6.1 megapixels
• 10X optical zoom + digital zoom
• Focal Length: 38-114mm and 130-380mm
• Aperture: f/3.9-4.4 and f/4.0
• ISO Range: 64-800
• Flash Range:
2.0–11.2 ft (0.6–3.4 m) at wide, ISO 280
2.0–10.8 ft (0.6–3.3 m) at tele, ISO 400
• Focus Range:
wide: 2.0 ft (0.6 m)–infinity
macro wide: 2.0 in.–2.3 ft (0.05–0.7 m)
tele: 5.2 ft (1.6 m)–infinity
macro tele: 2.3–5.6 ft (0.7–1.7 m)
• Exposure Compensation: ±2.0 EV with 0.3 EV steps
• Continuos Shooting: 2.00 fps (8 shots)
• Shutter Speed: 8-1/1200 sec
• Power-on: 2.7 sec
• Shot to Shot: 2.44 sec
• Self Timer: 0-second, 2-second and two-picture settings
• File Format: JPEG
• SD – Secure Digital memory + 32MB internal memory
• Lithium-ion battery (135 shots)
Kodak EasyShare V610

Kodak EasyShare V610

Kodak EasyShare V610

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Even it looks so small, Kodak V1003 offers not less than 10 megapixels (prints up to 30 × 40 in. or 76 × 102 cm). It is a fashionable point and shoot camera: comes in many colors (java black, java brown, pink bliss, red shimmer, cosmic blue, mystic purple, golden dream, white glaze, silver essence, slate gray) and optional fancy bag, skins, and wrist and neck straps. This aspect, plus the Favorite feature (save a picture as a Favorite), makes me say this is a fun camera to use.

As for the performance, it’s important that the Kodak V1003 comes with Digital Image Stabilization using anti-blur mode and KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology which, to say it in a funny way, “relive your memories in richer detail and clear up dark shadows to reveal more smiles”. Blurry picture alert, and digital red-eye reduction, as well as panorama stitch, also worth mention. It doesn’t have manual features, but a great variety of scene modes (22) for any kind of situation and a flexible movie mode compensate that partially. What’s new at this EasyShare V1003 is the high ISO mode up to ISO 1600 for bright pictures when shooting under low light conditions.
That was for the good, but now comes the bad: noise and artefacts are present in images more than on other cameras.

Compatibility and Accessories: super stylish Photo Frame Dock 2 and Camera Dock Series 3 (Charges your Kodak Camera Battery in less than 3.5 hours), Printer Dock and KODAK EASYSHARE Photo Printer 500, IMAGELINK print system compatible, PictBridge-enabled, A/V output (NTSC or PAL, user-selectable), digital (USB 2.0) connection and it works with KODAK EASYSHARE Software.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: auto, SCN (scene mode), movie, macro
• Scene Modes: portrait, sport, landscape, close up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text/document, fireworks, flower, museum/manner, self-portrait, high ISO, children, backlight, panning, candlelight, sunset, custom, panorama, anti blur
• Movie Mode: VGA (640 × 480) at 30 fps, QVGA (320 × 240) at 30 fps, QUICKTIME MPEG 4 with audio recording and playback, you can trim, make picture from video
• Effects: high color, natural color (default), low color, sepia, black and white, sharpness (sharp, normal, soft), crop, KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology, date stamp
• Flash Modes: auto, fill, off, red eye
• White Balance: auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade
• Metering: TTL metering; multi-pattern, center-weighted, center spot

Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 10 megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + 4x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 36–108 mm (35 mm equiv.)
• Aperture: f/2.8–4.9
• ISO Range: 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
• Flash Range:
2.0–9.8 ft (0.6–3.0 m) at wide, ISO 140
2.0–6.6 ft (0.6–2.0 m) at tele, ISO 200
• Focus Range:
normal wide: 2 ft (0.6 m)–infinity
normal tele: 2 ft (0.6 m)–infinity
macro wide: 2.0 in.–2.3 ft (5–70 cm)
macro tele: 1.3 ft–2.3 ft (40–70 cm)
• Exposure Compensation: ±2.0 EV with 0.3 EV steps
• Continuos Shooting: 1 fps up to 4 frames
• Shutter Speed: 8–1/1448 sec
• Self Timer: 2 and 10 sec., 2-shot self-timer: 10 and 18 sec
• Shot to Shot: 1.2 sec
• File Format: JPEG/EXIF v2.21
• SD – Secure Digital memory + 32MB internal memory
• KLIC-7003 Lithium-ion battery

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The Kodak V570 is very compact, fit for every pocket and has a simple user interface. Its unique dual lens (proprietary KODAK RETINA Dual Lens technology) arrangement includes a surprisingly useful 23mm ultra wide angle lens. Special features include Image Stabilization mode, Burst photography mode, 180 degree Panorama stitching (3 shots), Optional histogram display, DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) compatibility, PictBridge support, USB connectivity. Automatic red-eye reduction, on-camera cropping, in-camera distortion correction to compensate for ultra-wide angle fish-eye effects (which can be turned on or off), picture blur alert (green indicates an acceptable sharpness level, while a red icon indicates that the image is too soft) and auto picture rotation also deserve a mention. You can also select any frame in a video, then save and print it as a “freeze frame” still picture.
Images are soft with vibrant, appealing colors and natural skin tones, but not very little visible noise at high ISO. Good exposure accuracy and good low light capability in landscape mode. Easyshare V570‘s video capabilities are also very good. All these (plus the fact that it does not have manual controls) mean that Kodak EasyShare V570 is a good choice for novices, as well as more experienced users looking for a capable travel digital camera.
It realy is a complete digital camera, therefore, one of my recomandations.
It is compatible with Photo Frame Dock 2, which provides one-touch picture transfer to a connected computer while keeping the cameras’ high-capacity lithium-ion battery charged and ready to go, and which can play video and photo slideshows on the camera high-resolution LCD screen.

Functions:
• Shooting Modes: Auto, Long Exposure mode, SCN (Scene Mode)
• 22 Scene Modes: Panoramic L-R, Panoramic R-L, Sport, Landscape, Night Portrait, Night Landscape, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Manner/Museum, Party, Children, Backlight, Panning Shot, Candlelight, Sunset, Close-up, Text, Flower, Self-portrait, Custom
• Movie mode: with sound and optical zoom, MPEG4 compression, movie lengths can be set through the Record menu, 320 x 240 or 640 x 480 pixels, at 30 fps
• Flash Modes: Auto, Fill, Red-Eye Reduction, and Off
• Effects: Black and White, Sepia, and Color (High, Natural, and Low Color), image sharpness adjustment
• Metering: Multi-pattern, Center-spot, and Center-weighted
• White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Open Shade

Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 5 megapixels
• 5x optical zoom (by combining the 2 lenses) + 4x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 23mm (ultra-wide), 39-117 mm
• Aperture: f/2.8 (23mm lens), F/3.9-4.4 ( 39-117mm)
• ISO Range: 64, 100, 200, 400, and 800
• Flash Range: 2.0 to 7.9 feet (0.6 to 2.4 meters)
• Normal Focus Range: 24 inches (60 cm) to infinity
• Macro Focus Range: 2 to 28 inches (5 to 70 cm)
• Shutter Speed: 8-1/1400 sec
• Self Timer: 10 sec
• Power on: 2.2 sec
• Shot to shot: 2.14 sec
• Continuous shooting: 1.25 fps (3 shots)
• SD/MMC Memory Card + 32MB internal memory
• Kodak EasyShare Li-Ion pack (150 shots)

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The Kodak EasyShare C663 is a compact point-and shoot digital camera that is the first to include Kodak’s Perfect Touch image processing technology. Perfect Touch was able to restore the details of sections of the images that were almost lost in the shadows. It’s also non-destructive in that it creates a new image so that the original is not altered, which is useful if you decide you might be able to do a better job in an image editing program.
With an ergonomic shape, made of plastic not metal, it’s not slim and modern, but it has a viewfinder (optical, 84% accuracy): more utilitarian and less aesthetic. It is based on a Schneider-Kreuznach lens and CCD sensor. The camera includes a red-eye reduction mode, so red-eye should not be too much of a problem. A funny thing about this Kodak is the fact that even if it does have a manual mode, is has no aperture or shutter priority modes; also no manual focus is present and amazingly no custom white balance. It comes with: Kodak’s EasyShare software, USB 2.0 connection, DPOF and PictBridge but no A/V output. For this ability, you’ll need a camera dock, which acts as a battery charger and selectable NTSC/PAL video and audio output.

Functions:
• 8 shooting modes: auto, landscape, macro, movie, program/manual, scene, drive / burst, playback
• 13 scene modes: Portrait, Sport, Children, Party, Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Flower, Self-portrait, Backlight, Night Portrait, Manner/Museum (which disables the sound and flash) and Text
• 5 color modes: black and white plus sepia, settings for low, normal and high color saturation
• Movie Mode: QuickTime MOV (MPEG-4 compressed) with audio recording during capture and audio playback; VGA (640 x 480 pixels), QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) at 20 fps
• Flash Modes: On, Auto, Fill, and Off
• Metering: through the lens, multi-pattern, center spot and center weighted
• Autofocus: Continuous AF, TTL-AF, single AF, multizone, center zone
• White Balance: auto, daylight, open shade, tungsten and florescent

Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 6.1 megapixels
• 3x optical zoom + 5x digital zoom
• Focal Length: 34mm to 104mm (35mm equivalent)
• Aperture: f2.7 to f5.1 (wide), f4.6 to f8.7 (tele)
• Exposure compensation: 2 stops either way in 1/3 of a stop steps
• ISO Range: 80 to 400, 800 for 1MP pics
• Focus range: Normal wide: 2 feet / 0.6 meters to infinity; Macro: 0.43 to 2.3 feet / 0.05 to 0.7 meters
• Flash range: 2.0 to 12.1 feet / 0.6 to 3.7 meters
• Shutter Speed: 8 – 1/1600 sec
• Self timer: 2 and 10 seconds, and 2 shot
• Power-on: 4.9 sec
• Shot to Shot: 2.16 sec
• File Format: JPEG/EXIF v 2.21
• SD/MMC memory card + 32 MB of built-in memory
• 2x AA Ni-MH rechargeable batteries or 1 Kodak KAA2HR Ni-MH rechargeable battery (250 shots)

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It fits in your pocket (comes in black, red or silver), it is light weight and easy to use, therefore a nice compact point and shoot digital camera. A few improvements from V550 are the better buttons which are easier to press, viewfinder was completely eliminated, and more battery efficiency.
For each picture there is a “blur warning“: Red – bad, yellow – OK, and green – good. Then, it scans eyes in the photographs you take, and automatically removes red-eye. However, in low light the camera hardly manages to focus.
As for the panoramic mode, even if you are able take only 3 photographs, the camera automatically stiches them inside of the camera. It can also enhance pictures (feature known as KODAK PPERFECT TOUCH technology), and crop inside of the camera, with no use of computer, then, still with no use of computer, you can print your pictures via PictBridge.
Pictures made from EASYSHARE printer docks are vibrant, borderless, waterproof, and will last a lifetime, under typical photo album display conditions.
However, sometimes the contrast is a little high, tends to lose highlight and shadow detail when shooting under harsh lighting. The V603 offers a live histogram view for each photo and a framing grid to help you frame your shot. Built-in image stabilization technology works even during video mode. Kodak EasyShare V603 store whatever you like in its internal memory as a Favourite.
The camera comes with KODAK EASYSHARE software version 5.2.


Functions:
• Shooting Modes: auto, shutter priority, aperture priority, macro, movie
• 22 Scene modes
• Effects: Black and White, Sepia, and three color modes, Sharpness setting
• Movie Mode: TV-quality video, up to 30 fps, MPEG-4 compression, sound and zoom during video including auto focus
• White balance: auto, 4 presets
• Built-in flash with four modes
• Metering: multi-pattern TTL metering system, with center-weighted and center-spot

Technical Data:
• 2.5 inch LCD
• 6 megapixels
• 3X optical zoom + 4 digital zoom
• Focal Length: 36-108mm (35mm equivalent)
• Max. Aperture: f/2.8 to f/4.8 (quite a narrow range)
• ISO Range: 80-800
• Shutter Speed: 8-1/1448 sec
• Power on: 1.8 sec
• Shutter Lag: 0.300 – 0.850 sec
• Shot to Shot: 1.03 sec
• Continuous Shooting: 2.22 fps (4 shots)
• Self Timer: 2 / 10 sec
• Exposure Compensation: 2.0EV in 1/3EV increments
• SD/MMC memory card + 32MB internal memory
• Lithium Ion rechargeable battery (150 shots)

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