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Kodak DC5000

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Kodak has taken a leap into the unknown with its new DC5000. Unlike most of the competition, it comes with hefty rubber grips, water-resistant seals, big chunky controls and a totally sealed zoom lens mechanism. This makes the camera bigger and heavier than most, but also makes it ideal for use in industrial or action situations.
All the controls are either simple rotating dial switches or chunky buttons. Coupled with the tried and true Kodak icon-driven menu system, they are very easy to use. A secondary cover on the left houses the 8M CompactFlash card, the USB/serial socket and a video-out socket, and four AA batteries hide in the base.
Switching on the camera warms up the zoom, and basic status details are provided by the top-mounted LCD. Surprisingly, battery capacity isn’t displayed until a shot is taken. The non-retractable lens housing offers a standard 37mm screw mount on the front for any filters or special lenses. Flash, macro, focus, exposure metering and zoom settings are simple to operate. The only problem is the lack of options for setting picture quality; you can only select from high or standard.
The autofocus was fast and accurate even in low light. The zoom was also fast, but the 30 to 60mm equivalent optical zoom range wasn’t as wide as it might have been. Digital zoom extends this by 6x. The power-up and refresh speeds were reasonably fast at three seconds and five seconds respectively. A quick preview/ erase is also included, and the flash gave decent fill without over-blueing.
The built-in 1.8in viewing screen provided a quality image in most conditions, and has a brightness control for gloomy conditions. The Arc-Soft PhotoImpressions 2000 software is useful, but not as effective as the previous Kodak software, and is limited to downloading two Images at a time. It took about six seconds to download a 400K image with USB.
Outdoor resolution wasn’t as crisp as for some other cameras, as there were visibly bleached highlights, but its colour tones were quite good overall. Using the flash indoors produced very good overall quality, but switching it off resulted in resolution degradation and muddier colours.

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