Kodak EasyShare Z915

Manual Controls

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers the full range of modes, including Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and full Manual mode (PSAM). Program mode isn't manual in the purest sense since exposure is adjusted for you, but it does give you access to most other controls. Aperture and Shutter priority allow you to adjust the relevant setting while the other is adjusted automatically. Full manual gives you control over both. When in a manual mode you see icons appear at the bottom of the screen. Depending on your specific mode some are greyed out, while others are available to be adjusted. You can do this by moving between the icons using left/right on the 4-way controller and then up/down to make your adjustment.

The Z915 offers a full range of manual controls.

Focus

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers two focus modes, continous and single. You can also use face detection and choose between two focus areas, Multi-zone and Center-zone. All of these adjustments are made in the menu. You can also switch to Macro focus by pressing the dedicated button on the top of the camera.

ISO

ISO can be adjusted manually when in any of the PSAM modes. You can choose ISO setttings from 100 to 1600. When in full auto mode the camera can go down to ISO 64, and there's also a high ISO scene mode.

White Balance

White balance is adjusted in the menu when in any of the PSAM modes. You can choose from Auto, Open Shade, Fluorescent, Tungsten and Daylight. Unfortunately there's no option to manually set a custom white balance.

There is no manual white balance available on the Z915.

Metering

There are three metering options available from the main menu, these are Center-Weight, Multi-Pattern and Spot.

The Z915 offers three metering modes.

Shutter Speed

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers a shutter speed range of 16 to 1/1250 seconds in auto mode or 16 to 1/1000th seconds in manual modes.

Aperture

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers an aperture range of f/4.8 to f/11.3 in tele or f/3.5 to f/8.3 at the wide end. Frankly it's not an impressive maximum aperture, but none of the Kodak EasyShare Z915's competitors do much better here.

Image Stabilization

One place where we're glad to see Kodak didn't try to save money is in image stabilization. They're using real Optical Image Stabilization here, which actually moves the sensor or lens elements to adjust for camera shake. On many less expensive cameras you see software tricks to try and compensate for camera shake, which doesn't work nearly as well.

Picture Quality & Size Options

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers several different size options for images, 10MP at 4:3 (aspect ratio), 8.9MP at 3:2, 5.0MP at 4:3, 3.1 MP at 4:3, 2.2MP at 3:2, 2.1MP at 16:9 and 1.2MP at 4:3. There only seems to be one image quality options as we didn't see any way to change this in the menu.

Picture Effects

The Kodak EasyShare Z915 offers a variety of color modes in the menu that you can apply to your photos. These are Natural Color, High Color, Sepia, Black & White and Low Color.

There are five color modes you can choose from.