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Digital Cameras have become one of the essentials for kids going off to college.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have one yourself, chances are one of your friends does.\u00a0 How else are you supposed to tell all your friends about everything you\u2019re doing?\u00a0 However if no one you know has a camera and you\u2019re looking for a good camera on a college student budget, the Kodak M530, despite its shortcomings, will end up getting the job done and recoding all your late night escapades.<\/p>\n
The M530\u2019s design is expressive, yet subtle.\u00a0 The body of the camera comes in several different colors and is made up of plastic and aluminum.\u00a0 The surface provides a good surface to grip when you\u2019re using the camera.\u00a0 The power, flash type, video\/camera mode, and capture buttons are all located on the top of the camera, level with the surface.\u00a0 While this kept the camera looking sleek, it did take a while to be able to press specific buttons by feel alone.\u00a0 The worst case scenario with this was when I would press the power button instead of the flash or video mode button causing the camera to shut down.<\/p>\n
On the back of the camera you\u2019ll see the Kodak\u2019s 2.7 inch viewing screen along with a few buttons for the trash, menu, info, and playback.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also see the zoom in\/out button in the top right corner and navigation arrows below that.\u00a0 Using these buttons is easy and they are relatively self explanatory after experimenting for a minute or two.<\/p>\n
Although the camera is 12 Mega Pixels and its pictures came out clear, it only has 3x optical zoom which was a little upsetting.\u00a0 This caused problems in distance shots and if you tried to use the digital zoom, the picture quickly got pixilated.\u00a0 There are other similarly priced cameras that have 5x-7x zoom which would be much more useful.\u00a0 While 3x may be suitable for a night out when you are taking pictures of friends close up, if you tried to use it for documenting a trip or vacation it wouldn\u2019t be long before you became frustrated with the 3x zoom.<\/p>\n
The feature on the Kodak that was impressive was the facial recognition and tagging.\u00a0 Kodak makes it easy to tag your friends manually and it also recognizes faces and can tag their names automatically.\u00a0 Then when you use the Kodak\u2019s Easy Share program on your computer, you can easily upload pictures from your camera to Facebook, YouTube, or Flickr.\u00a0 You can also rate pictures based on a 5 star system, similar to the way you rate your music in iTunes. The software worked relatively well, but could become sluggish at times during editing.<\/p>\n
Even though the Kodak was able to keep up with normal use, the 3x zoom remained a big letdown.\u00a0 While it is somewhat common in this price range for the camera to have that zoom range, with a little comparison shopping, you can find other cameras for the same price that are much better in this category yet still have most of the features of the Kodak.<\/p>\n
Kodak EasyShare M530 Digital Cameras have become one of the essentials for kids going off to college.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have one yourself, chances are one of your friends does.\u00a0 How else are you supposed to tell all your friends about everything you\u2019re doing?\u00a0 However if no one you know has a camera and you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}