Kodak EasyShare Z650 - Digital Camera Review
November 13th, 2008 at 10:16pm Under Kodak
Overall Assessment
Design 10 / 10
Qualita finish 9 / 10
Rich functionality 9 / 10
Access Profiles 9 / 10
Qualita image 9 / 10
Battery 8 / 10
Quality Report price 8 / 10
Overall Assessment 9 / 10
Objective; optical zoom; sensor; Pack purchase
Conclusion: The Kodak EasyShare Z650 camera is a very interesting, something between the digital and compact automatic reflex, as it offers ample opportunity to speak about the settings manually. The display is good, even if you do not have detailed information on its quality, and the same goes for the battery. Its strengths are the image sensor and optical zoom lens with Schneider-Kreuznach Varigon. Rich also packaging.
Design
The Kodak EasyShare Z650 camera has a camera body really important, the appearance very strong and very clear with one handle that facilitates clearly taken. The dimensions are not those of a common digital compact, because this model is in a middle ground between compact and SLR, offering features not usually found on the first.
The camera specifically measure 97.8 mm wide, 77.5 mm in height and 72.6 mm deep, with a total weight of 287 grams excluding the battery. The display is a very bright and quality, from 2 inches diagonal, and a perfect view even under strong light. Finally, there is also an electronic viewfinder that provides a perfect frame of subjects to photograph.
Features and functionality
This model was launched on the market in January this year and is the newest of number Z. Its prominent feature is the image sensor type CCD, 1 / 2, 5 inches in size, a total resolution of 6.36 and 6.1 effective megapixels. The quality of picture is excellent, with a maximum resolution of 2848×2144 pixels, and applies equally to the quality prints up to 50×75 cm format. The camera also has a target of right, a Schneider-Kreuznach Varigon with 10x optical zoom, allowing an approach to the subject so as not to miss even one detail. At the optical zoom is also adds a 5x digital zoom that, combined together, allow you to enlarge the subject of 50 times. Returning to this, its focal length is equivalent to 38-380 mm in size 35 mm and its maximum aperture of f2.8-f4.8. But the element that distinguishes this from other similar cameras is the new chip image processing KODAK Color Science that, for every step, running a snapshot and advanced data collected in order to identify and adjust the various factors influencing on the quality of the images. This chip analyzes the brightness, the focal distance, orientation of the subject and the color of the scene to determine the correct exposure and capture natural details. Suitable for any type of user, this model offers many automatic settings but also enables a broad scope for manual intervention, in terms of exposure, the opening times of closures, the values ISO, white balance and flash mode. In addition, it offers various methods of scene that can be selected for best picture at every opportunity, including various portrait, landscape, bright scenes, action, first floor, a holiday and 5 color mode. It also has an interesting histogram function to check the exposure of photos with live preview, the continuous shooting mode, up to 4 frames in rapid sequence to 2.5 fps, and the autofocus.
With this camera is also possible to make movies in QuickTime format video with 640×480 pixel resolution and up to 11 fps in VGA and 320×240 up to 20 fps in QVGA. Very fast and convenient is also the sharing of photos through a Share button that allows you to send them via e-mail or print them by connecting the camera to a printed or a printer dock. Very useful, in that regard, the EasyShare software package that allows you to organize your photos easily and holding the One Touch to Better Picture, which automatically adjusts the settings of inkjet printers to make photos quality Kodak photographic paper using KODAK. Finally, the internal memory is 32 MB, but is expandable via memory cards or SD-type MMC. There are outputs for connecting to the computer and the TV and packaging purchase includes a lithium battery CRV3 KODAK, the USB and AV cable, a lens cap, an adapter for objective, the shoulder strap, EasyShare software, the basic kit and the grafting of housing for specific camera dock and printer dock.
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