Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 6:01 pm IST

REVIEWS / POINT AND SHOOT / KODAK INDIA PVT. LTD.

Kodak Easyshare V1273

05 May, 2008, 5:05 pm IST | Gagan Gupta | Point and Shoot

Now about the Smart Capture technology: Kodak had hyped it up during Photofair 2008, but we obviously wanted a real hands-on look at it before we believed it. Now that I personally got to spend time with the V1273, a camera that boasts this technology, all I can say is: it works.

Smart Capture intelligently acquires various kinds of information of the subject in front of it and sets the appropriate scene settings, or even the right scene mode. If you aim the camera at a small object or a flower nearby, it would automatically switch to macro mode. If you aim it at a dark landscape scene, it would automatically set itself to night landscape mode. It's a much better alternative to an auto mode.

On the flip side, however, Smart Capture has the tough task of making photography easy under all shooting conditions, which it does to a great extent. However, if you wish to take good night landscape shots, I would suggest you use the good old scene mode instead. As you can see from the two images below, when I shot the same scene with Smart Capture, it compensated for the lack of slow shutter speed by boosting up the ISO that caused the digital noise in the image. However, the second image was shot in the appropriate scene mode and the quality is drastically improved.

Shot using Smart Capture

Shot using Scene Mode

What I really like here is that you have the option of using smart capture as well as the good old scene mode according to how you see fit. That way you're not limited by this new technology.

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Tags: Kodak , digicam , digital camera , 12 megapixel

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