Popular Photography and Imaging recently published a useful review of the Kodak EasyShare V570. The V570 is a compact camera with a unique dual lens / dual imaging sensor image capture mechanism. According to the article:
Kodak’s dual lens design is useful. For example, if you combine the ultra-wide, fixed focal length 23mm (equivalent) f/2.8 lens with the V570’s in-camera stitching function, you can easily create an almost 180 degree panoramic photo without a computer. Plus, the fixed focal length design lends itself to less distortion. Even with the V570’s distortion correction feature turned off, we measured less distortion from the Kodak’s 23mm lens than we did from the 24mm setting of the Zeiss T* zoom lens built into Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-R1.
The review includes “certified test results” that rate its color accuracy as extremely high, and the image noise as low to moderate between ISO 64 and 200 light sensitivity. You can jack up the sensitivity to 400 or 800, but the results are deemed unacceptable. [ via The Digital Photography Blog ]
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