Kodak EasyShare V570

With a big entrance at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, Kodak announced the EasyShare V570 to head up its stylish V-line. The 5 megapixel digital camera is the first consumer-oriented digital camera with a dual lens system, which Kodak calls its Retina technology. This system incorporates a very wide 23mm lens with a non-extending 39-117mm zoom lens for a combined 5x optical zoom. The two lenses enable photographers to capture wide angles or to close in on a subject from far away – all with non-extending lenses. The Schneider-Kreuznach lenses stay within the 0.8-inch thick camera body at all times, so the V570 keeps its slim profile for better portability. The Kodak V570 keeps the same LCD screen from the earlier V550 flagship. The LCD is a nicely sized 2.5 inches and has 230,000 pixels of resolution. Like its V-series counterparts, the Kodak EasyShare V570 is very automatically oriented. It has an auto mode, 21 scene modes, a movie mode, and a Favorites mode that utilizes the 32 MB of internal memory to store photographs and video clips for easy sharing and transfer. The Kodak V570 comes with an EasyShare Photo Frame Dock 2 and retails for $399. It will be available in late January.