Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Kodak Easyshare Z812IS 8.2MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom



From Kodak

The Z812-IS is part of the Kodak EasyShare System, so to share your pictures, just press Share. The elegant design of the Z812-IS provides a more enjoyable viewing experience of your picture, on a 2.5" color display. Turn your pictures into 46" (1015cm) announcements, invitations, holiday cards, and more with English, French, and German photo card templates. A high speed digital processor chip, advanced algorithms, and hardware acceleration features let the Z812 IS make simultaneous, split-second decisions to produce rich, vibrant, true-to-life colors in almost any lighting situation. Every time you click the shutter, the Kodak Color Science Chip performs an instantaneous and advanced analysis of collected scene data to identify and adjust multiple factors that influence picture quality. Scene light source is detected and adjustments are made to capture bright whites and true, vivid colors.

I've own this camera for less than a week and I've already went through 4 or five sets of batteries. The cheap one Kodak sent lasted the longest. I use rechargable batteries that the Z710 that I really liked used. I could get nearly 200 pics out of one charge on my 710, this camera is lucky to get fifty. I don't know if I should try lithium batteries or take it back and stick with the 710. The light meter doesn't work as well as my 710 does in manual mode either. I read nothing but what seemed like bad reviews about the 710 but in my opion my 710 runs circles around this 812. The extra zoom is nice and the HD is cool but I like to take pictures of wildlife and in cold weather your lucky to get ten pics on a set of batteries. I wish I would have saved my money and just bought a SLR. This camera was over half of what I would have spent on one anyway.

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