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Ultrawide Zoom in a Compact Camera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the melts-in-your-mouth-not-in-your-hand dept.

manavendra writes to tell us that Image-Resource has an interesting writeup on the recently released Kodak EasyShare V570 digital camera. The V570 is a dual lens camera that incorporates an ultra-wide angle lens and an optical zoom lens. The camera will feature 5 megapixel resolution, 5x optical zoom, in-camera panorama stitching, video recording, a 2.5 inch LCD screen, in-camera distortion correction, and picture blur alert.

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  1. Interesting... by Dzimas · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyone else notice that this thing's design harkens back to the wooden boxed Kodak Brownie cameras that were introduced (along with 120 roll film) in about 1901? I wish Kodak much success with their digital innovations -- it's been a bloodbath (technologically and from a dollar & cents/employment perspective) at their company for the last couple of years.

    Personally, I'd like to see them create a hybrid analog/digital sensor that combines the best of the film and digital worlds. It would avoid the nasty blowouts that digicams are succeptible to, while adding the benefit of digital speed to the analog image capture process.

    1. Re:Interesting... by MSBob · · Score: 5, Interesting
      As an (unhappy) owner of DX6490 I can tell you exactly why Kodak is in trouble. It is a camera built for nobody. Some of its features belong in an entry level DSLR while it targets the know-nothings. However, it's quite a challenge to get a decent photo out of it in a point-and-shoot mode. On the other hand, nobody who knows anything about photography will not be willing to put up with the lack of manual focus, lack of RAW format or no manual white balance adjustment.

      Why did I buy their camera? Because I'm stupid. Knowing nothing about photography at the time I went to the local mum and pap photo place and asked for advice. They sold me a crap camera that happened to be expensive. I vow never again to rely on anyone else's word when making a significant purchase or buy a Kodak product.

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  2. Opera incompatibility. by Poromenos1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot is broken. I am using Opera and the ad is bleeding in the article.

    Oh, wait...

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  3. For the rest of us get Autostitch by hotspotbloc · · Score: 5, Informative
    Autostitch is a free (as in beer) app that will stitch together multiple photos with no human intervention. Pretty nice stuff.

    Autostitch home page:
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca.nyud.net:8090/~mbrown/autosti tch/autostitch.html

    Download via Coral cache:
    http://www.cs.ubc.ca.nyud.net:8090/~mbrown/autosti tch/autostitch.zip

    Autostitched photos on Flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/autostitch/

    BTW, it's a MS Windows app but works great under wine.

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  4. NOT an "Ultrawide Zoom" by Colgate2003 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The headline is deceiving. This camera does not have an ultrawide zoom. It has a 37-117mm equivalent zoom lens in front of one 5MP sensor with a second, 23mm equivalent prime lens in front of another 5MP sensor. There is no way to take a picture with an equivalent focal length between 23mm and 37mm (a difference of 25 degrees in angle of view).

    So, this is really a fairly normal pocket camera with an "ultrawide mode" accomplished by adding an entire second imaging system to the device. That's pretty big news in itself, isn't it? Two 5MP sensors in your pocket!

  5. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the F--king Advertisement

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