Kodak V610 Digital Camera
Eastman Kodak Company today added another feather in their cap by launching the worlds smallest 10x zoom digital camera with dual lens feature. The Kodak V610 Camera is incredibly small and has dimensions like 4.4 x 2.2 x 0.9 inches and is just less than an inch thick. While it may have a minuscule form factor the camera boasts two SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH C-VARIOGON all-glass, non-protruding prism lenses and uses the radical KODAK RETINA Dual Lens technology to deliver such a long zoom.
The Kodak V610 has a pretty decent set of features and Kodak doesn’t rest on the world’s smallest gimmick . The V610 is a 6 mega-pixel camera and includes a 2.8 in. (7.1 cm) high resolution (230K pixels) LCD screen. However it is the powerful zoom which will get the juices of photography nuts going. The 10x (38 – 380 mm equiv.) optical zoom promises to deliver formidable results in conjunction with the patented Kodak Anti Blur Technology. It has a Video Mode too, which is capable of recording VGA (640 × 480 pixels) at 30 fps, VGA long at 30 fps, and QVGA (320 × 240 pixels) at 30 fps.
Another unique and novel feature found on the V610 is the BLUETOOTH® wireless technology. The incorporated Blue-tooth will no doubt make sharing and transferring of images to other blue-tooth enabled sources a breeze. The camera also includes the exclusive KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology which was previously seen on other Kodak devices like KODAK printers and kiosks, or via lab processing. Basically this technology by a touch of a single button creates finer and vibrant images by bringing out detail in shadows areas especially in under exposed images.
The KODAK V610 may be small in size but it packed with a rich set of features. Some of these include; Color modes like high color, natural color, low color, sepia, black and white, White balance settings, 4X advanced digital zoom, total zoom range 40X and a number of Scene Modes like auto, portrait, panorama left-right, panorama right-left, sport, landscape, close-up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text etc. The camera will start shipping from May 8 and would carry a price tag of $449.
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Kodak V610 Features:
CCD resolution
(effective pixels) 6.36 MP (2934 × 2171) Image resolution
(recorded pixels) 6.1 MP (2848 x 2144) Picture quality
6.0 MP: best (2832 × 2128), prints up to 30 × 40 in. (76 x 102 cm)
5.3 MP: best 3:2 (2832 × 1888), optimized ratio for 4 × 6 in. (10 × 15 cm) prints
4.0 MP: better (2304 × 1728), prints up to 20 × 30 in. (50 × 75 cm)
3.1 MP: good (2048 × 1536), prints up to 11 × 14 in. (28 × 36 cm)
1.1 MP: e-mail (1200 × 900), small prints
Still format
JPEG/EXIF v 2.21 Lens
dual lens technology; 10X optical zoom
38–114 mm (35 mm equiv.) f/3.9–f/4.4
130–380 mm (35 mm equiv.) f/4.8
Advanced digital zoom
4X advanced digital zoom, total zoom range 40X Aperture
f/3.9–f/7.1 at wide, f/4.8–f/8.0 at tele
Shutter speed
8–1/1200 sec. LCD
2.8 in. (7.1 cm) high resolution (230K pixels) indoor/outdoor
Creative performance controls
Scene modes
auto, portrait, panorama left-right, panorama right-left, sport, landscape, close-up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text, fireworks, flower, manner/museum, self-portrait, party, children, backlight, panning shot, candlelight, sunset, custom Color modes
high color, natural color, low color, sepia, black and white Burst mode
1.6 fps, maximum 8 images in any quality mode Click to capture
0.3 sec.
Shot to shot
1.1 sec. Video mode
continuous MPEG-4 compressed video with audio capture and playback Video resolution
VGA (640 × 480 pixels) at 30 fps, VGA long at 30 fps, QVGA (320 × 240 pixels) at 30 fps Video length
continuous up to 80 min. based on memory capacity Video features
10X zoom during video with digital image stabilization and auto focus; print thumbnails and snapshots from video, on-camera trim video editing Video format
QUICKTIME MOV Auto focus
TTL-AF, multi-zone AF, center spot AF Auto focus control
single AF, continuous AF 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)
Sensitivity
ISO equivalent 64–400 (auto) and 64, 100, 200, 400, 800 (manual) White balance
auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade Exposure metering
auto: TTL-AE; selectable: multipattern, center-weighted, center-spot Exposure compensation
±2.0 EV with 0.3 EV steps Long time exposure
0.5–8 sec.
Ease of use features
Histogram display
display on live view and review Built-in flash
auto, off, fill, digital red-eye reduction 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
Review options
1X–8X magnify with pan, fast scroll, multi-up, slide show, album, picture info, erase, protect, crop, copy, image storage, Share/print, view by album or date, Favorites Editing
selectable red-eye reduction, KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology, on-camera cropping, blurry image detection, panorama image stitch mode
yes Favorites
on-camera picture storage Dedicated buttons
power, shutter, still, scene, movie, Favorites, review, delete, menu, Share, and flash Sound
customizeable sound themes: default, jazz lounge, secret agent Auto picture rotation
yes Auto-orientation
yes Software
works with KODAK EASYSHARE Software Storage
32 MB internal memory* available, SD/MMC card expansion slot Self-timer
10 seconds, 2 seconds, 2 picture
BLUETOOTH Wireless Technology functionality
BLUETOOTH 2.0 EDR BLUETOOTH Wireless Technology transfer method
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