Kodak EasyShare Z950 Digital Camera Review

Kodak EasyShare Z950

Digital Camera Review

4 The EasyShare Z950 is a high-end point and shoot that captures 12 megapixel images and has a long 10x zoom. But we found that it had only lackluster performance, with slightly soft images and fuzzy video.
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Playback Mode (6.75)


The Z950 offers a reasonable selection of playback features: you can zoom out (to show up to 16 thumbnails on one screen), zoom in up to 8x and flag files for uploading or printing with the share button. You get three options for viewing the photo info as well as the photo itself: you can turn all the info off, show the basic info or view the full shooting info.

You can also create slideshows within the camera by selecting a series of images, choosing a type of music and transition and then saving the slideshow to the memory card. The music options are somewhat limited (you get to choose from 5 built-in pieces of music called Action. Calm, Fun Nature and Urban), as are the transitions, but it's a simple way to create a slideshow if you want to do one quickly and cleanly.

Playback Displays
No Info
Shows the photo and battery status only
Basic info
Shows battery status, and the number of images on file
Full info
Shows all shooting info, and a histogram

 

In-Camera Editing (3.00)


Only a few basic in-camera editing tools are offered: you can crop images or apply Kodak's own PerfectTouch processing. You cannot, however, remove red eye, rotate or apply any form of color correction. The aforementioned PerfectTouch processing does a decent job of bringing our some shadow detail on darker shots, but it can't work miracles.

 

Direct Print Options (5.00)


The Z950 supports the common DPOF and PictBridge printing features. DPOF allows you to mark certain pictures on a memory card for printing when you put the memory card into a printer. PictBridge allows the camera to connect directly to a printer over a USB cable and print directly to it, with no computer in the middle. Kodak also offers an additional printing feature; when combined with the included EasyShare software , the share button can be used to upload images to the Kodak EasyShare web site and to print them from there.

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