Kodak EasyShare M580 14MP Digital Camera with 8x Wide Angle Optical Zoom and 3.0 Inch LCD (Blue)
- 14-megapixel resolution for stunning prints up to 30 x 40 inches
- 8x optical zoom; 28 mm wide-angle lens
- 3-inch LCD with KODAK Color Science Technology
- Kodak’s Smart Capture feature
- Capture images to SD/SDHC memory cards (not included)
The Kodak EasyShare M580 digital camera features a unique stylish slim body with a 14MP 8x wide optical zoom and a 3.0″ LCD. This smart camera has Smart Finder with Face Recognition, Smart Capture, and features the Smart Share destination tag to YouTube™ , Facebook, Flickr , Kodak Gallery, and email via the Share button for upload when you connect to your computer.
List Price: $ 169.00
Price: $ 169.00
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A camera that doesn’t cause my wife to close her eyes!!,
My wife and I have tried various cameras, but nearly all of them result in photos where her eyes are closed. It became a bit of a family joke, but it’s actually very frustrating. Several years ago her sister bought a Kodak camera and the photos were terrific, so we bought a Kodak V603 and loved it. No more closed eyes, wonderful colors, great Schneider lens, and it had a nifty little video camera included, was compact, etc. It just recently broke, so we were in the market for a new camera. Luckily, Kodak was just about to release this 580, also with a Schneider lens.
The camera arrived today, is still compact (though a little bigger than our V603), has a much larger viewing screen, and easy to use buttons. The first few photos resulted in her eyes partially closed, but once I selected the “Red-Eye Preflash” option everything was great. Photo after photo and eyes were wide open and beautiful! We’re very pleased.
The video looks great and should be just as easy to pull off the camera as in earlier versions. We don’t really need the 14 Megapixels (who really does?), but I guess one never knows when we might need to blow up a photo to billboard size. Also, the “blue” color is much cooler than expected — it’s really more like a steel blue. The strap took 10 seconds to put on and it took just a few minutes to navigate the directories, set the date & time, and to insert the battery and memory card (memory was purchased separately).
I suggest watching the price, because it will undoubtedly drop. Also, each time I checked the listing over the first week of sale the seller changed between Amazon and independent retailers. Something to keep in mind as you calculate shipping and return policies.
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|Best Kodak Point and Shoot Yet…,
I have used a myriad of pocket cameras in the past, including other Kodaks. Sometimes it seems as if Kodak will hit a home run and then take two steps back, but it seems as if they’ve broken through with consistent improvements (V550, V1253, M341, etc.). If it’s one thing Kodak has understood well since they invented digital photography, it’s make a camera easy to use, and produce pleasing photos.
Generally, on the point and shoot side, Kodak’s attributes have been ease of use, beautiful display, great video (especially since they started doing HD a few models back), and beautiful, vivid pictures. They also make it pretty easy to update the camera’s firmware when they correct a bug or improve a feature. Typically, Kodak pocket cameras have been weak in low light, sharpness has tended to suffer greatly under borderline lighting conditions, and speed to set up can be slow.
Recently they’ve really improved things with features like face recognition, the camera’s ability to analyze scenes and ‘figure out” your composition, and other attributes that make life easy for point and shooters, but unless the light was with you, you had to work at it more than you should.
It’s been in a lot of Kodak’s traditionally weak areas where I found this camera to have so many improvements. It’s substantially faster than earlier models. There’s no time to play a little “boot up jingle” because when you hit the power button, this camera is ready for action before you are.
Taking pictures in questionable light, with or without flash, is noticeably much better than in my past experience. Before I would have to fiddle with a “scene mode” and/or the flash, and/or the aperture setting to get something I could reasonably use when conditions were nominal. That’s great when you have the time to fiddle with it, but not so hot when you’re at a poorly lit reception or some other indoor event and you have to act fast.
What originally attracted me to the camera was the 8x zoom and previous success with features like smart capture (intelligent scene detection and analysis), and panorama mode. I know my wife will love face recognition – the ability to quickly find pictures of the kids among the hundreds of photos she accumulates on a memory card. Of course the ease of use is big…
I just got back from a “cruisin’ weekend” at the beach with some buddies – thousands of classic cars. Nivana. My buddy had his Canon pocket camera and was reading the manual so he could figure out how to delete pictures. I looked at it and couldn’t see the markings on some of the controls, much less figure out how to delete something. Kodaks always have had dedicated delete and review buttons. Also a menu button and joystick with 4 other controls for quick access to common features, a flash toggle button, scene mode button, etc.
You really waste no time getting up and ready to shoot. The main thing is we’re instantly taking pictures and shooting HD video of hot rods that suddenly appear on the boulevard without staring at the back of the camera. Something I would take for granted – quickly deleting things we don’t want were a luxury for him. That model he had might have been easy, but my attitude is, if you can’t figure it out on the fly, then it’s more complicated than it needs to be. If anything, that’s a Kodak attribute, but I think some people overlook the deeper features because they assume the camera must not be very sophisticated because it’s so easy to use.
The bonus this time was the near instantaneous readiness, clearer night shots, better color in low light, and less fiddling to try to make a useful shot in questionable conditions. It’s obvious to me Kodak took a lot of the criticisms to heart, kept the good things, added a quality 8x optical zoom, and made the other things better.
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