Kodak EasyShare C875 Review
Kodak EasyShare C875 is a 8 megapixel, compact camera with 5x optical zoom, and a 2.6 inch LCD screen.
PC Mag states that, “In my experience, Kodak has consistently offered well-performing point-and-shoot devices, and I was happy to see very little noticeable shutter lag in the C875. Resolution averaged 1,850 lines, which is excellent for an 8MP camera. The bootup time was a respectable 3 seconds, and the 1.7-second recycle time was excellent. There was no pincushion distortion in my test shot, but there was a little more barrel distortion than I’d like to see, especially with just a 37mm wide-angle end of the zoom. All in all, the Kodak EasyShare C875 is quite a good camera, but at $299.95 (direct), it’s a bit pricey for a point-and-shoot.”
DCRP reports that, “The EasyShare C875 is a compact (but not tiny) camera made of a mix of plastic and metal. It feels quite solid, though I must always complain about plastic tripod mounts, so there you go. The camera fits well in your hand, with the important controls in the right places. I do wish that the zoom controller was a bit larger, and that the on/off switch wasn’t right in the middle of the mode dial, though… The screen resolution isn’t great, but again, this is a budget cam. It was reasonably easy to see outdoors, and nice and bright in low light situations.
Camera performance was about average. It takes 2.7 seconds after you turn the camera on before you can start taking pictures, which is on the slow side. The camera focuses fairly quickly at the wide end of the lens, but telephoto delays can exceed a second. Low light focusing was just so-so for a camera with an AF-assist lamp. Thankfully, shutter lag was not a problem, and shot-to-shot delays were minimal. The C875’s continuous shooting mode was just okay — nothing to write home about. Battery life was about average.”
Microworks Vega 20.1″ Giant
Microworks recently announced their Vega notebook-a laptop with a 20.1″ screen, and jammed pack with features.
Microworks Vega has the latest AMD Turion dual core processor, a 1680×1050 resolution, 4 GB of DDR2 memory, a Blue-ray burner, EV-DO, GPS, a TV tuner, and a whopping 600 GB of internal hard drive space. However, with a base price of $3599, and configuration price of up to $7800, most people will opt not to buy this monster notebook.
Rapid Transit- USB to USB Transfer
Here’s a useful gadget for transferring music or photos from a digital camera to an mp3 player, or even from an mp3 player to another mp3 player.
It’s called the Rapid Transit, and it allows transfers of music, photos, or data, between any two gadgets that can be connected via a USB port. So, you can now directly transfer photos from your digital camera to your ipod, ipod music to another ipod, music to your mp3 capable phone, and so on. Sounds pretty darn useful! Available for $130, from Herrington.
Ultraportable Macbooks Rumour
Rumours are that the newest Macbooks will be thinner, more portable, and hotter than before. The new specifications, according to Mac OS Rumours, for the new versions of the macbooks are as follows:
- 12-inch widescreen display(1280×800 resolution)
- 2.16 or 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors
- 1GB of DDR2-667 memory standard. Max. capacity 3GB
- Firewire 400&800, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital/Analog Audio minijack I/O ports
- ExpressCard expansion slot (believed to be /34 type)
- 2.5in SATA HDDs at 120GB & up, ‘Combo’ or ‘Super’ optical drive
- 256MB of ATi Radeon Mobility X1600 or nVIDIA GeForce GO 7600
- Mini-DVI display connector with full second display capabilities
- Built-in iSight, stereo microphone, Airport Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
- Battery life is expected to be “best in class” at about 8 hours is possible
Apple Phone Picture?
Chances are, this is probably a mock-up of the Apple phone, but nevertheless, it is at least a decent mock-up.
