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Hardware Reviews September 1998 • Vol.1 Issue 9 |
Kodak DC200 | ||
 Buying a digital camera with megapixel quality at an affordable price is now a realistic endeavor. Digital camera manufacturers continue to introduce models with impressive features targeted at household and business users at increasingly lower prices. The Kodak DC200 falls into this category. The DC200, $399, captures 24-bit color images with a 1,011,520-pixel charged-coupled device (CCD) sensor at a High resolution setting of 1,152 by 864 pixels and a Standard resolution setting of 640 by 480 pixels. The camera stores 16 to 60 images in either FlashPix or JPEG file formats in Good, Better, or Best quality settings on a removable 4MB CompactFlash memory card. The images we captured at both resolution settings, outdoors and indoors under fluorescent lighting, were extremely sharp and focused with excellent contrast, clarity, and accurate colors—although darker shades were a bit ominous in some shots. The shades of blue sky we captured outdoors and images taken in low-light settings indoors were especially impressing. Overall, the DC200 produced some of the sharpest images we've seen from a camera in this price range, making them suitable for World Wide Web pages, presentations, E-mail attachments, and printing. Images are framed with an optical viewfinder or the camera's 1.8-inch color LCD. A mode dial next to the LCD features easy-to-navigate Capture, Review, Connect, and Preferences options. In Capture, images display on the LCD after they you shoot them. In Review, you can delete one or all the images, and you can review stored images by using the right and left scroll keys. Connect transfers images to a computer, and Preferences sets the desired resolution and compression settings. The DC200 includes a video-out port and video cable to view images on a television, a 10-second self timer, a lens cap, an auto exposure, white balance, and focus (from 27 inches to infinity) capabilities. Built-in flash settings include Automatic, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-In, Fill-In With Red-Eye Reduction, and Off. The camera doesn't have a zoom lens, but does have a 39mm equivalent focus lens that is threaded to mount accessory lenses. You will find four AA batteries, a RS232C serial cable to interface with a computer, a quick setup guide, user's guide, Kodak's Picture Easy Software, a TWAIN acquire module, Mounter software, and Adobe's PhotoDeluxe bundled with the DC200. The DC200 has a one-year warranty, weighs 11 ounces without batteries, and fits easily into a coat pocket for traveling. The Kodak DC200's excellent image quality, easy-to-use functions, and attractive price make this megapixel camera one to strongly consider. —Blaine Flamig
Eastman Kodak Co. $399 (800) 235-6325;(716) 724-4000 http://www.kodak.com |
