Any opinions on this camera please, especially from anybody that owns (or has used) one. Cheers John
Depending on vendor the DX7590 is anywhere between £50 and £70 dearer. The other thing I am taking into consideration is, I would ideally like the camera to use AA batteries and SD cards as I have a number of these with my existing 'point & shoot' camera. Cheers John
I believe it does use SD cards, but not AA batteries. Sadly, Kodak seems to be moving to the Li-Ion type for longer charge life, and lower weight. I will have to see a comparison of the 7590 and the LS7xx cameras.
Greetings John, I have one of course as I work at Kodak. I can tell you that it sia great model and has a lot of nice features. Not sure what it is that you are looking for in the camera so hard to advise. Personally, if I were to be seeking a camera like this, I would simply compare the features. Consider what you are going to do with your camera for now and the immediate future. Weigh how much money you want to spend on the camera then check the features. You can then decide if the kind photography you plan to do will be enhanced by the features that the cameras you select will provide. You can match the cameras that Kodak offers at: http://www.kodak.com/go/compare For those of other makers review the facts about them and compare via paper. Another process that I follow is to compare images. These cameras use SD cards and so if you have access to one, you can take it with you when you visit local dealers and take pictures with the cameras that you are considering. Note something in the picture or jot down the sequence so you know which image is from which camera. You can then compare them later. Be sure you take a picture of the same thing under the same lighting. Good luck in your decision making, if you have any questions, let me know. I am usually around. Talk to you soon, Ron Baird Eastman Kodak Company
That shouldn't be necessary if all of the cameras store EXIF data along with the pictures, which I assume they all will. Irfanview (free software) not only displays it, but can also copy it to the clipboard. I've only checked Kodak's LS753 and was surprised that the ISO setting wasn't included. Is this true for all of Kodak's cameras or just for some of them? It was also missing from the EXIF data produced several of Canon's cameras and Nikon's D70, but is included by all of the Fuji cameras I've checked as well as the Olympus E-300. The ISO setting would seem to be one of the more useful items, so I'm surprised that even though its inclusion is optional, it isn't included by all manufacturers. Here's the EXIF data stored by one of Kodak's cameras, downloaded from Steve's Digicam website: File: - . . .\Kodak LS753\100_0144.jpg Make - EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Model - KODAK LS753 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA Orientation - 1 (top left) XResolution - 230 YResolution - 230 ResolutionUnit - 2 (inch) YCbCrPositioning - 1 (center of pixel array) ExifOffset - 504 ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds FNumber - 5.6000 ExposureProgram - 2 (program normal) ExifVersion - 221 DateTimeOriginal - 2004:07:29 17:39:26 DateTimeDigitized - 2004:07:29 17:39:26 ComponentsConfiguration - 0 3 2 (CrCb) ShutterSpeedValue - 1/500 seconds ApertureValue - F 5.66 ExposureBiasValue - 0.0000 MaxApertureValue - F 3.36 MeteringMode - 5 (multi-segment) LightSource - 0 (auto) Flash - 24 FocalLength - 7.3000 mm FlashPixVersion - 010 ColorSpace - 1 (sRGB) ExifImageWidth - 2560 ExifImageHeight - 1920 InteroperabilityOffset - 2746 ExposureIndex - 80 SensingMethod - 2 (other) FileSource - 768 (other) SceneType - 256 (other)
Looking at the aperture, and the shutter speed, I am pretty sure that 'ExposureIndex - 80 ' is the ISO setting....
You may be right. But if so, who had the bright idea to translate ISO into ExposureIndex? If that was an attempt to simplify things for the typical Kodak camera owner, it missed the mark. Also weird is that whereas "ExposureBiasValue" is intermingled with the other exposure settings (shutter speed and aperture), "ExposureIndex" is included at the bottom of the EXIF data, between "SensingMethod" and "Interoperability Offset". I don't see any comparable term in the Canon or Nikon EXIF data that might have been used represent the ISO setting. Does your camera place its ISO setting information in the ExposureIndex field? It should be pretty easy to check, even if you don't have Irfanview installed.
Yes, it appears so. And, of COURSE I have Irfanview installed. It's about the first piece of software I add to every computer I buy. I also like the Faststone picture viewer, but Ifranview is like a comfortable old set of slippers.
