KODAK V570 Digital Camera

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KODAK V570 Digital Camera

Sudeep Naik, Nov 01, 2006 1700 hrs IST

The Kodak EasyShare V570 is a compact-sized digital camera offering a resolution of 5 Megapixels. Let's have detailed clicks at it.

Dual-lens, Compact, Lightweight, Good image quality, Great color-reproduction and skin tones, Good low-light performance, Good video recording, 32 MB internal memory.

Soft Images, Images give impression of a 4-megapixel model, Not a true 23- 117 mm camera, Shoddy digital zoom for UW lens, Red-eye reduction systems fail most times, Dock-usage obligatory for charging/connecting to TV/Comp.

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What we liked

One of the best features offered by the V570 is the dual-lenses and the 'supposedly' added capabilities that come with it. The ability to click landscape pics on the UW lens is a joy. The picture quality though is just above average. As compared to the UW lens, at times, you get much better pictures with the standard lens in the landscape mode.

The Panaroma or image stitch option is pretty cool and with the help of a tripod and the UW lens you can get really good panoramic shots with ease.

Image-quality-wise, we felt that images from the V570 showed excellent color, but were softer than we'd normally expect from a 5-megapixel digital camera. The skin tones were reproduced beautifully as well. The Auto white balance handles a wide range of lighting comfortably.

Practically speaking, the V570 works best with 3-4 MP resolution as it noise-suppression algorithms make the fine details in the image murky, particularly when the contrast levels of that detail are low. Although, all digital cameras carry this flaw, it was more prominent in the V570.

So, it's best to use this camera at 3-4 MP if you are taking casual pictures with friends and family. Anyways, the average consumer rarely uses any image-measuring more than 1280*1024 (non commercial).

A common pro with most Kodak cameras is that they perform really well when it comes to the Night Mode. The V570 is no different. It gives good low-light performance albeit only in the Night Mode. The user interface is very simple at the same time, it also provides advanced options

The startup time is around 2-3 seconds (a little more than the competing cam but, it's bearable) while the shot-to-shot time is around 1-2 secs. The on-camera editing options are decent enough as well.

The Video Mode of the V570 is very good; it allows you to use the 3x Optical zoom when recording video. The videos look, feel, and sound great. Videos are recorded in the Quicktime format with audio.

What we really didn't like

The digital zoom for the UW lens is just uncalled for as the image just gets hazier and grainy. The absence of image-stabilization functions is to be blamed for this condition. Although, the standard lens gives you good pictures, they could have been better (as you will observe in the sample pics).

Although the LCD on the V570 provides 230K pixel resolution, the pictures look really grainy (even if the actual pic is crisp and clear.) At first, we thought it could be due to high ISO settings, but even after we lowered the ISO, the image quality did not improve one bit.

For a 5MP camera, the image quality we got on the V570 was just above average; nothing that you could really compare to a similar 5 MP Canon or Sony. Also, the red-eye reduction systems failed most of the time (even if you use the proper flash mode.)

Talking about the zoom feature, when you zoom in, you start at 23 mm and suddenly jump to 39 mm; there's nothing in between, except some digital zoom (if you like.) I'd rather think of it as a standard 39 - 117 mm lens with a little bonus wide-angle lens on the side. But the V570 is most definitely NOT a 23 - 117 mm camera.