Kodak offering ‘has good lens’
20 Dec 2007
The newly-released 12 megapixel Kodak EasyShare Z1275 has received praise for its lens.
Technology website Cnet praised the budget compact digital camera for its five times optical zoom Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon lens, which it said produces no discernible distortion even in the absence of optical image stabilisation.
Other standard Kodak features such as 20 separate scene modes, a panorama stitch function and a video mode with resolution of 30 frames per second all strengthened the appeal of the camera further.
But the website said that the Kodak EasyShare Z1275 is not without its flaws, with the “rich and vivid” colour reproduction that photographers will enjoy in well-lit situations failing to be attained in harsher conditions.
“When the light fades, the [Kodak EasyShare] Z1275’s flaws become glaringly apparent,” Cnet asserted. “Noise is a problem even as fast as ISO 100. The high ISO mode, ostensibly for low-light shooting, is as useless as on most compacts [and] the severely limited manual options don’t give anywhere near enough scope to manage noise and exposure issues.”
The Kodak EasyShare Z1275 comes with Kodak Easyshare image authoring software.
Leave a reply