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I have a question for all of you. My new Z1275 does not have a flash fill icon when I push the flash button on top. It just scrolls thru Auto Flash, No flash, and Red Eye. This is regular Auto mode. It does have the v1.08 software on it. I just bought it last week and love it minus this one thing. In the manual it says it should have it?
Any ideas or comments. I did email Kodak with this issue just an hour ago. Thank in advance Jerry |
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hortaja wrote:
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The worst is that I have no control at all when using the otherwise excellent 3-shot autostitching of panoramas. If I use it I have to post-process severely to ameliorate overexposure. So every panorama has to be taken as single shots as well, if I want to ensure a good result. Good luck! |
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I wound up returning my camera. The picture quality was inconsistent. If you paused and shot it was great. Similarly on video if you composed on a subject with little movement it was fine. I loved the follow focus and zoom during video and the 720p resolution. However write times made picture taking painful. It remined me of my old Ricoh RDC-7. My Fuji F700 is so responsive. I thought all new cameras would be that way but not the Kodak. If anyone knows of a responsive camera with 720p movie mode that my wife can put in her purse then let me know. Price is less important than performance. We do a lot of video clips. We need a new camera since the Fuji has picked up a lens defect. The Kodak had so much promise but it became too frustrating.
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#74 |
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I'm looking for a compact camera that has fast performance, fast flash recharge times and a good video mode (i.e. would be good for taking photos and videos of a two-year old who almost never sits still), so I picked up a Z1275 along with an M753 (has extremely fast flash recharge times - can get three flash shots in around 4 seconds) from Wal-Mart to take advantage of their 30 day no restocking fee return policy. In the several days I've had the two cameras, I havebeen fairly disappointed with the Z1275. I'veexperienced the following problems:
1) It seems like the ISO settings have minimal effect - even when I have it set to ISO 64 or 100, I'm still getting a fairly grainy photo with lots of noise and little detail, looking like how I would expect a photo at ISO 400-800 to look for indoor shots, maybe ISO 200 level noise for outdoor shots. Using the Auto mode or either the ISO or digital image stabilization modes,indoor photos look like they were taken with one of thefirst generationcell phone cameras (literally, I'm not exaggerating) with a detail level of perhaps a 640x480 resolution at bestand are noisier than a Ohio State - Michigan football game. My four year old 5mp Pentax Optio 555 takes crisper, sharper photos indoors and most of the time, outdoors as well. Low light performance is horrible and even with flash, still inadequate. The little 7mp M753 usually takes as good or better photos, except in low light with no flash. Oddly enough, in 720p video mode, I was able to record several videos in relatively low light conditions indoors that were excellent and approached the light levels I was seeing in real life, so the lens is certainly capable - it's the electronics that are at fault. 2) When I set the white balance control to "Tungsten" for indoor photos, it gives everything a very strong blue cast, looking like I selected a blue color filter with one of the digital cameras that offer that feature (i.e., everything is as blue as the same photo would be brown on a sepia setting). While I would suspect that to counter the yellow light from an incandescent light bulb, there might be a verymild blue filter used in the Tungsten setting, this makes the photos essentially unusable, unless it could be cured with photoediting software (which I prefer to use as little as possible). This occurs in either Natural or High color modes (didn't try the Low color mode). 3) Macro shots are poor. Last night I tried taking some photos of several pieces of audio gear I am selling on eBay, and from a distance of about 20-24" away (should be well within the manual's stated 28" range), I was not getting very sharp images in the macro setting or in the self-portrait mode, figuring the typical hold-at-arms-length and shoot picture of oneself range is about the same as what I was trying to shoot to fill the width of the screen with the audio component. Ultimately, I used the M753 instead and got pretty good photos with that one using the self-portrait mode. 4) Fairly strong aliasing on longer range outdoor shots. Got lots of the jaggies of tree trunks and branches in both Auto mode and on Landscape scene. Aside from the need to get some sort of image stabilization in the video mode to steady the fairly shaky recording, the HD movie mode produces really nice videos, but I don't think that's going to be enough to compensate for the weak still photography. I think we're probably going to return thisZ1275 unless perhaps a firmware update and/or new techniques can really make big improvements. Or, does it sound like I have a defective camera? Any thoughts? Thanks. |
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Paul,
I am using Sandisk Ultra2 SDHC. I can take continuous shots (at least 3 shots) almost instantaneously. You just half-press the shutter and the Z1275 is ready for the next shot. I admit as a low-end Kodak DC, z1275 JPEG inages are a bit over-compressed . Also if you don't use the manual exposure controls of z1275, you'd better choose the full-auto counterpart, V1253. You may browse all the night/indoor shots I took using manual exposure above. And these latest shots: http://www.dcfever.com/photosharing/...1188568067.jpg http://www.dcfever.com/photosharing/...1193583479.jpg |
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My C875 has had it and I was thinking about getting this or a Panasonic as a replacement and havea question for those who have it already. When I had previous Kodak models like the 6330 & 7530 I found that the flashat night was much better than the 875 both at a distance and close-up. When taking a close-up picture at any distance less than about a foot and a half away with the 875 it casts a shadow from the lens in the bottom of the picture as seen in the picture below and I was wondering if this is the case with the 1275 also since it seems to be a very similar design? This is a very annoyingproblem to me since I typically do no editing of photos and hate to crop out that area on every shot.
http://www.littergetters.com/c875pic.JPG |
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Pls put some party imagest taken by z1275, like many colors and move ...
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