KODAK Z760 6.1MP Pics Uploaded

[SFDMALEX]

Well I originaly ordered a Pentax S60 which looked like a good deal. But futureshop was being ghey and didnt ship it yet, its tuesday and I placed the order saturday, so I canceled that.

So I went to another place and put an order for this. And also put an order for a 512mb SD card....bloody pain all this. 360+60=420$ on a camera which I planed to spend no more the 300$ on :( If I knew Im going to hit that total I would have never went ahead with this. Anyway this is it.

So what do you guys say? Any good?

I didnt wont to a get a n00b job with no manual controls, but this has auto settings and more manual controls then the rest.

http://www.dcviews.com/press/images/Kodak-Z760.jpg

Some specs:

Lens
Zoom 3X optical zoom, 8–24 mm (35 mm equivalent: 39–117 mm) Lens threads for 37 mm lens adapter
4X advanced digital zoom
12X total zoom

Aperture f/2.8–8.0 (wide), f/4.8–8.0 (tele)
Shutter speed automatic: 1/8–1/1400 seconds; manual: 64–1/1000 seconds

Exposure
ISO equivalent 100–200 (auto) and 100, 200, 400, 800* (manual)
White balance auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent; can be controlled in any manual mode
Light metering method auto: TTL-AE matrix metering; selectable: multi-pattern, center-weighted, center spot
Exposure control programmed AE; apperature priority: AE: f/2.8–8 at wide; shutter priority: AE: 64–1-1/1000 seconds at wide; manual exposure: f/2.8–8, 64–1/1000 seconds; ISO 100–800
Long time exposure 0.7–64 seconds
Exposure compensation +/- 2.0 EV in 0.3 EV steps
Exposure bracketing automatic 3 images with user-selectable brackets +/-0.3, +/-0.7, or +/-1.0 EV
Burst mode First Burst Mode—2 fps, up to 4 pictures in sequence.
Last Burst Mode—up to 30 frames at 2 fps, with last 4 frames saved

[RC45]

I have had acouple of Kodaks now, and they are greta middle of the road cameras. Good quality, decent features for the price and the generation.

And simple to use ;)

[SFDMALEX]

These are tottal n00b straight out of the box shots I didnt change any settings nothing, just pure auto.

Taken at 6.1 resized to 16x12

http://www.is-mad.com/upload/userfiles/SFDMALEX/Photos/

[Jabba]

000_0048.jpg

Now thats what you call red eye.

[SFDMALEX]

Haha its Alien like 0X

[antonioledesma]

http://imagehigh.com/uploads/ih000004/7792_Dibujo.JPG

[ET frightening voice]YOU WILL GIVE ME that big, fat STEAK that is in the fridge[/ET frightening voice]

[SFDMALEX]

ahahahaha thats great, I saved that on a file :D

[dutchmasterflex]

The quality of the pictures looks pretty good for a point and shoot.

Have fun messing around in manual mode! It might be a hassle changing the settings aorund to get a decent shot, but you'll get a hang of it by trial and error. It beats having to develop the film to find out if the shot you took came out alright.

[SFDMALEX]

I just found a setting that doesnt use as much compression on the JPEGs, still too bad I cant do raw images :(

Anyway here is a full original pic in the "fine" mode instead of "standart", I was pretty pleased with the result.

http://www.is-mad.com/upload/userfiles/SFDMALEX/100_0019.JPG

[nthfinity]

^^^^
its a nice picture... but its a bit soft... see if you have any controls over the Fstops, and set it to the highest you have, then try the picture again see if its any better... that ought to sharpen it up a bit... you really have nothing to worry about in your shutter/iso settings, in that you had your flash on...

just in case you dont know... your settings
File Name
alex kodac.jpg
Camera Model
KODAK Z760 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Shooting Date/Time
1/3/2005 7:12:05 PM
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/125
Av( Aperture Value )
4.8
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
100
Image Size
2856x2142
Flash
On
File Size
1570 KB

[SFDMALEX]

^^^^
its a nice picture... but its a bit soft... see if you have any controls over the Fstops, and set it to the highest you have, then try the picture again see if its any better... that ought to sharpen it up a bit... you really have nothing to worry about in your shutter/iso settings, in that you had your flash on...

just in case you dont know... your settings
File Name
alex kodac.jpg
Camera Model
KODAK Z760 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Shooting Date/Time
1/3/2005 7:12:05 PM
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/125
Av( Aperture Value )
4.8
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
100
Image Size
2856x2142
Flash
On
File Size
1570 KB
And damn how the hell did you get my picture settigns lol?

F.....yes I believe I can change F.....be right back going to check it out.

[SFDMALEX]

Ok, the previous shot was taken with an AUTO setting for "object as close distance"

In order to change F I had to go to manual mode so it doesnt look like the previous shot with the blury background. dunno how to do the blury background yet :(

http://www.is-mad.com/upload/userfiles/SFDMALEX/Photos/100_0034.JPG

[nthfinity]

your focus is roughly where i circled in red... the closer the focus, the more blurred the background will be
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7043/alexkodacmod6fq.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alexkodacmod6fq.jpg)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9877/alexkodacmod20wr.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alexkodacmod20wr.jpg)

in your second picture, the focus is further away then the second... thus the background les less blured... its also somewhat sharper because of your higher aperature value.

[dutchmasterflex]

To the the "blurry background" pics you are talking about, you need to use low apature settings.

FYI, this term is called depth of field. The higher the apature setting (F22) will give you an all around sharp image. A lower apature setting (F3.8) will only give you a sharp image if you focus on that object. Anything else that is not focused on will be blurred (like the background in your first picture).

check this out..
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/950/depth-of-field.html

[SFDMALEX]

Thanks guys, your really helping out :)