Kodak’s Latest Compact Camera

Kodak had several products to show off at this CES, but my favorite by far was the Kodak EasyShare V570. It’s perfect for my purse at only an inch thick.
Using Kodak’s proprietary Kodak Retina Dual Lens technology it uses an ultra-wide angle lens (23 mm) and an optical zoom lens (23 – 117 mm).

In addition to its 5X optical zoom range, it has a 5-megapixel capability and the ability to take television-quality video using advanced MPEG-4 compression. If you don’t have steady hands, don’t worry because the built-in image stabilization reduces screen shaking from hand and camera movement. The optical zoom feature also works for your videos, plus you can save any frame in a video as a “freeze frame” still picture. A big bright 2.5-inch high-resolution LCD screen makes it easy on the eyes to take your pictures or videos.

If you enjoy taking panoramic shots, this camera is perfect for you too. The in-camera panorama stitching will combine three pictures into a panorama photograph. To do this, you would use the ultra-wide view in panorama scene mode then take in a 180-degree sight with this cool feature.

Other camera features include automatic red-eye reduction, on-camera cropping, picture blur alert, 22 scene modes, three color modes, Kodak Color Science image processing (to produce accurate skin tones and rich color), the Photo Frame Dock 2 (provides one-touch picture transfer to your computer while keeping your battery charged and ready to go) and 32MB of built-in internal memory (with an SD card slot for additional storage).

The Kodak Easyshare V570 is available for about $400 on www.amazon.com and will ship on February 15 (free shipping).