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Kodak EasyShare V610

Filed under: Kodak — admin at 4:27 am on Monday, September 25, 2006

Kodak EasyShare V610With bluetooth technology you can transfer files up to 30 feet away with your mobile phones, PDAs, computers, Kodak Picture Kiosks, and even other Kodak V610 cameras. Kodak EasyShare V610 camera records TV-quality (VGA) video with 10X optical video zoom at 30 frames per second (fps), using advanced MPEG-4 compression for optimal quality and storage size. Built-in, video-specific image stabilisation technology reduces on-screen shaking from unintentional hand and camera movement.

Kodak EasyShare V610 has a cool feature. V610 has an innovative 6-megapixel, anti-blur technology, can be carried where bigger, bulkier high-zoom digital cameras cannot — in a pocket while skiing, in a small purse during a day on the town, or on a wrist while hiking. The result is the ability to get extremely close, high quality pictures of distant subjects without the obtrusiveness of a larger camera.

Other features of the Kodak V610

In-camera panorama stitching, which automatically combines three pictures into a panorama photograph without the need for a computer;
The exclusive KODAK Color Science image processing chip for phenomenal image quality with rich colour, accurate skin tones, and precise exposure;
On-camera cropping, picture blur alert, auto picture rotation, and red-eye reduction;
Twenty-two scene modes, three colour modes, and a custom mode to help capture the best possible shot with the least possible effort;
Selectable exposure metering, exposure compensation, focus zones, ISO, and single/continuous auto-focus for precise control;
And 28 megabytes (MB) of internal memory available for storage, plus a SD card slot for additional storage capacity.

Kodak EasyShare V610 specifications:

Resolution 6.00 Mpixel
Maximum resolution 2832×2128
Minimum resolution 1200×900
Sensor size unknown
Sensor type CCD
Optical zoom Yes
Focal length multiplier n/a
Zoom wide (mm) 38
Zoom tele (mm) 380
Digital zoom Yes
Auto focus Yes
Manual focus No
Focus range (cm) 60
Macro focus range (cm) 5

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Comment by Elan Remford

January 6, 2007 @ 12:26 am

Kodak ought to be ashamed of themselves. Like Casio and, even worse, Olympus, they have begun calling shifting the ISO up to 800 and beyond “anti-shake”, “anti-blur”, or “stabilization”, to imply that the camera actually has either compensatory optics or sensors which actually counteract blur caused by camera movement.

In cameras so small, all that boosting the ISO sensitivity to such a high level accomplishes is to introduce a substantial amount of electronic interference “a.k.a. noise” into the image in an attempt to permit sufficiently fast shutter speeds to make the camera movement less apparent.

Not only does this substantially compromise the image outcome (and imposes quite a penalty as a result) but it also affects compositional issues as it may also be necessary to adjust aperture to achieve proper exposure. It’s trading one very bad phenomena for another slightly less bad one while trying to glide upon the coat tails of makers like Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, and Konica-Minolta (Sony) who actually invested the engineering and production dollars into developing systems that actually counteract camera motion by adjusting the optics or image sensor in opposition to the direction of movement and, quite simply and truthfully, are God’s honest anti-shake devices.

In a world where the marketplace generally doesn’t understand much beyond bullet points and feature headlines and “innovation” consists of cramming more megapixels into a sensor regardless of their negative impact upon performance, I suppose the customer is only getting what he/she deserves. On the other hand, consumer ignorance and naivete is NO justification for attempting to mislead. These manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves.

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