Digital cameras keep on going down in price and you can easily get a great point and shoot digital camera for around $150 these days. With many digital cameras being almost the same, what do you really look for in a camera? The things that I really look at are how many megapixels the camera has, the zoom on the lens, and how big the LCD is. Well today we are looking at a 10-megapixel camera that has a 4x optical zoom and a nice large 3-inch LCD display. The camera I’m talking about is the Kodak EasyShare M420. Geeks.com was nice enough to provide us with the Kodak M420 for review. Geeks.com is a great place to find cheap digital cameras.
General Features
– Color: Black
– CCD total pixels: 10.3 megapixels
– Effective total pixels: 10.0 megapixels (prints up to 30 x 40-inches!)
– Sensor type: 1/2.3-inch CCD
– 3.0-inch wide angle color LCD display
– 4x wide-angle optical zoom
– 5x continuous digital zoom
– Image stabilization
– 64 MB internal memory
– Storage media: Secure Digital/Secure Digital High Capacity (SD/SDHC)
– Smart Capture feature automatically adjusts settings for optimal photos
– HD picture quality for viewing on HDTV or other HD device
– Face detection
– High ISO (up to 6400)
– Text and sound tags
– Multimedia slide show with sound
– Record continuous VGA video (640 x 480) at 30 fps and QVGA video (320 x 240) at 30 fps
– Scene modes and picture enhancing features
– Share button
– Kodak PERFECT TOUCH technology
– Built-in speaker
– PictBridge-enabled
Specifications
– Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon Lens, 28 – 112 mm (35 mm equiv.), f/2.6 – 5.8
– Built-in lens cover
– Shutter speed: 8-1/1000 sec.
– Auto focus type: TTL-AF, selectable
– Auto focus modes: normal, macro, infinity selectable
– ISO sensitivity: auto (Smart Capture) – 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600; manual – 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 (@ 3.1 MP) selectable
– White balance: auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade
– Flash range: 0.2 – 4.0m at wide, ISO 400; 0.5 – 1.8 m at tele, ISO 400
– Flash modes: auto, fill, red eye reduction, off
– Burst modes: self-timer (2 sec/10sec, 2 shots), burst 3 shots
– Scene modes: portrait, sport, landscape, close-up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text/document, fireworks, flower, museum/manner, self-portrait, high-ISO, children, backlight, panning, candlelight, sunset, panorama (right-left), panorama (left-right), blur reduction, program
– File formats: Still image – JPEG/EXIF v2.21, Video – QUICKTIME MOVIE, motion JPEG
– AV output: NTSC/PAL selectable
Still Image Sizes (in Smart Capture mode)
– 10.0 MP (3648 × 2736)—4:3
– 8.9 MP (3648 × 2432)—3:2
– 7.5 MP (3648 × 2064)—16:9
– 5.0 MP (2592 × 1944)—4:3
– 4.5 MP (2592 × 1728)—3:2
– 3.8 MP (2592 × 1456)—16:9
– 3.1 MP (2048 × 1536)—4:3
– 2.8 MP (2048 × 1360)—3:2
Packaging
The M420 comes in a normal retail Kodak camera box, on the back there is an overview of some of the features.
Opening the box up we have the M420 camera, AC / USB power adapter, USB cable, battery, wrist lanyard and user guide.