Kodak EasyShare V570 camera Review

Kodak EasyShare V570 is a good example of how innovation and thoughtful design can come together in a consumer product that’s powerful yet easy to use. The Kodak Easyshare V570 is a unique ultra compact 5 megapixel digital camera - featuring two lenses: an ultra-wide angle lens, and a normal 3x optical zoom lens.

Other features of the V570 camera include:

A big, brilliant 2.5-inch, high-resolution LCD screen;

The exclusive KODAK Color Science image processing chip for phenomenal image quality with rich color, accurate skin tones, low noise and precise exposure;

Automatic red-eye reduction, on-camera cropping, picture blur alert and auto picture rotation;

In-camera distortion correction to compensate for ultra-wide angle fish-eye effects, which can be turned on or off;

Twenty-two scene modes plus three color modes, helping snap shooters capture the best possible shot with the least possible effort;

The Photo Frame Dock 2, which provides one-touch picture transfer to a connected computer while keeping the cameras’

high-capacity lithium-ion battery (klic-7001 battery) and ready to go, and which can play video and photo ‘slideshows’ on the camera’s high-resolution LCD screen;

And 32 megabytes (MB) of internal memory, plus a SD card slot for additional storage

As is the case with many cameras these days, the EasyShare V570 has built-in memory instead of a bundled memory card. The V570 has 32MB of built-in memory, which is a decent amount for a camera with this resolution, but you'll want to buy a larger memory card anyway. The V570 uses Secure Digital or MultiMedia cards, and I recommend a 256MB or 512MB card as a good place to start. A high speed memory card is not a required purchase.

The V570 uses the same KLIC-7001 lithium-ion battery as the V550. This compact battery has just 2.7 Wh of energy, which translates into fairly poor battery life.

The V570 includes the snazzy Photo Frame 2 camera dock, which can be used for several things, including charging the battery, transferring photos to your computer, or viewing them on a television. In fact, unless you can hunt down a mysterious adapter shown in the manual, this is the only way you can transfer photos or view them on a TV. The battery can be charged either with the dock, or with the included AC adapter. Either way it takes three hours to fully charge the battery.

Packing advanced video performance, the camera makes it easier for users to shoot all types of action in the way that many filmmakers prefer — with an ultra-wide angle to capture more of the scene. The EASYSHARE V570 camera records TV-quality video, high capacity kodak klic-7001 battery up to 30 frames per second (fps) using advanced MPEG-4 compression. Built-in image stabilization technology reduces on-screen shaking from unintentional hand and camera movement. The camera also offers an optical zoom feature for video including auto focus. And it is simple to select any frame in a video, then save and print it as a “freeze frame” still picture in just seconds.