| Kodak EasyShare V570: World's First Dual Lens Digital Camera |
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(Review) - As if buying a camera wasn’t already confusing enough - with megapixel counts, digital or optical zoom? How much zoom? What kind of memory? What kind of automatic modes and such? Kodak adds a whole new twist to the buying decision. How many lenses? Yes, with the V570, Kodak has released the world’s first dual lens camera. The camera features a fixed focal length 23mm lens on top and a more traditional 39-117mm zoom lens below. Things get even better. The two lenses are backed by a 5-megapixel CCD each. What this lets you do is take super wide angle shots as well as pack in serious telephoto options, courtesy of the 5x optical zoom. At 1.01cm, it’s the thinnest 5x optical camera in the world. So why do you need two lenses? Are two lenses really better than one? A traditional camera will never be able to give you a true wide angle photograph. Picture a scene where you have to fit in 30-40 subjects in a photograph, or say you need to click a snap of a wide building. With traditional cameras, what you would generally do is keep backing up until your subject comes into focus, and then, shoot. With this camera, all you need to do is switch to the fixed lens (for wide angle shots) and click away. If you want to zoom into a subject and take a close up, simply switch the lens below and you will be equipped with up to 5x of optical zoom and 4x of digital zoom capabilities. We seriously recommend switching off the digital zoom though. It almost always ends up killing the image.
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