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Camera (Kodak EasyShare DX6340) has been bought.
Similar-ish 5-megapixel version would have been bought if it was more similar- that is, if it had had the same range of manual control as the 3-mp 6340 has. But it doesn't, so it wasn't. Which is pooey, since it was otherwise not that much more money, for plenty more megapixels. But oh well. I mainly want something to carry around to snap on moment's notice, anyway, not something to produce 11x17s with. (If I wanted that, I'd lug around the view camera and set me up some tray processing. ^_^)
Similar-ish 5-megapixel version would have been bought if it was more similar- that is, if it had had the same range of manual control as the 3-mp 6340 has. But it doesn't, so it wasn't. Which is pooey, since it was otherwise not that much more money, for plenty more megapixels. But oh well. I mainly want something to carry around to snap on moment's notice, anyway, not something to produce 11x17s with. (If I wanted that, I'd lug around the view camera and set me up some tray processing. ^_^)
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Date: Apr. 14th, 2004 08:35 am (UTC)From:How's the image quality on the 6340? Granted that I haven't even looked at a Kodak camera since 2001, but we tested a *bunch* of them at Imagine Media between DigitalFoto and MacAddict, and they consistently had saturation and sharpness problems...
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Date: Apr. 14th, 2004 01:16 pm (UTC)From:For image quality, I'm mostly going by the sample pictures for it at Digital Imaging Resource (http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/DX6340/D63A.HTM).
Colour/Saturation: "Kodak's cameras tend to produce very bright, highly saturated colors, and the DX6340 is no exception. Technically, its images are a bit oversaturated, as their colors are brighter than in real life, but this matches the preferences of most consumers who tend to avoid cameras with more technically accurate, but duller-looking color. Color accuracy was generally very good, although the camera did have trouble with the difficult blue of the flowers in the outdoor portrait test. Like other EasyShare cameras I've tested, the 6340's automatic white balance system can deliver very good results under an amazing range of lighting conditions, having little trouble with the challenging lighting of my Indoor Portrait test. (Many cameras have a hard time with the very yellow cast of household incandescent lighting commonly used in the US.)"
Sharpness: "Resolution seems to be the DX6340's weak point, as it showed noticeably less detail in its shots of the "laboratory" resolution test chart than most three megapixel models I've tested, only about 950 lines per picture height, compared to 1,100 or more for competing models. It will still produce good-looking 8x10 prints, but if you're a resolution fanatic, you'd do better with a competing model. In the resolution test, the 6340 began showing artifacts at resolution levels as low as 600 lines, I found "strong detail" to about 950 lines, and "extinction" of the target patterns occurred at between 1,100 and 1,200 lines."
However, I am willing to trade off a little in technical accuracy for the unusual amount of manual control that this camera has for its megapixels and price range. I simply cannot deal with full point-and-shoot cameras; I want to have control over the settings beyond "portrait" and "sports" kinds of things. This camera will actually let me set the ISO and also has Aperture Priority and Shutter Prioirity modes. I'm probably not going to be making actual prints with its images anyway; whatever I take will almost certainly be only viewed on a computer screen, and under some jpeg compression at that.