Entered CNET Catalog: 04/27/2004
SKU: CNETKODAKEASYSHARELS753
Manufacturer: Eastman Kodak Co.
Manufacturer description
With every shot, you'll be captivated by the impeccable detail and sharpness provided courtesy of the LS753's pro-quality lens. The LS753 is as versatile as it is stylish and sleek. Use the programmed scene modes to keep it simple or explore new possibilities with creative settings. Either way, you'll always get the quality shot you want. The LS753 is compatible with the KODAK EASYSHARE System. Use the on-camera Share button while shooting to tag images for immediate printing or emailing when you dock. Just set your camera in an EASYSHARE Dock to charge the battery and easily transfer, email or print your photos. KODAK EASYSHARE Software is included! It's intuitive, powerful and extremely user-friendly - the simplest way to print and share!Product summary
The good: Solid photo quality; excellent macro capabilities; easy operation; excellent burst mode.
The bad: Limited zoom range.
The bottom line: Fast operation, great macro and burst modes, and excellent battery life distinguish this 5-megapixel snapshot camera from the crowd.
Editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 04/11/2005
With its elongated layout, the LS753 fits two hands better than one, especially if you want to thumb the back-mounted zoom lever while keeping a finger poised over the shutter release. Also nestled on the top surface are the power button (which glows an eerie blue when the camera is switched on), slits for the built-in speaker, a flash adjustment button, and a jog wheel that you turn to switch among shooting and scene modes, then depress to lock in the mode. These modes include Auto, Portrait, Self-Portrait, Night Portrait, Close-Up, Landscape, Night Landscape, Sport, Snow, Beach, Party, Fireworks, Backlight, Children, Flower, and a "politeness" mode labeled Museum/Manner that deactivates the flash and camera sounds in environments where flash photography is prohibited or frowned upon.
Other than the four-way cursor/OK button nested within the zoom lever's collar, the only controls to fuss with are the Delete, Menu, Review, and Share (tag, print, e-mail) buttons located to the left of the 1.8-inch LCD. Unfortunately, some key options, including exposure compensation, burst mode, and the self-timer, are buried in the menu system, along with less-frequently accessed controls such as white balance; ISO speed; multi- or center-zone autofocus; and multi-, center-weighted, or spot metering. While the camera sets sensitivity within only the ISO 80 to ISO 160 range in full auto, you can specify manual ISO settings up to ISO 800, although the highest setting is available solely in the 1.7-megapixel Good mode. These adjustments all return to their defaults when the camera is powered down, so you may visit the menus more often than expected.
Close-up shooting capabilities are extremely good. The LS753 focuses down to 2 inches in wide-angle mode and as close as a foot at the modest telephoto setting. Burst mode is equally impressive; the Kodak grabbed four shots in about 1.2 seconds. A few features are notable chiefly for their fun factor and their convenience. For example, the LS753 can automatically rotate vertically oriented photos for viewing when the camera is held horizontally and, at the same time, embed this orientation information in the file for the benefit of image software that can use it. The Share button makes it easy to tag images for an in-camera photo album or mark them for e-mailing to any of 32 e-mail addresses you've downloaded to the camera from your computer using the included EasyShare software. Less fun are the movie capabilities, which are limited to 640x480 pixels at 13fps or 320x240 pixels at 20fps, up to the capacity of the 32MB of internal flash memory or your SD card.
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The LS753's performance is always at your fingertips because the camera is always ready to take a picture when powered up, even if you're navigating a menu or reviewing your previous shots. You don't waste a lot of time with shutter lag, which amounted to only 0.6 second under high-contrast lighting and a respectable 0.9 second under more challenging low-contrast illumination. Even with burst mode switched off, you'll wait only 1.4 seconds between shots (or 2.4 seconds with flash) until the roughly four-shot buffer fills.
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The LS753 had some fringing on high-contrast edges (left), and the focal point of our test photo wasn't sharply in focus (right). | ||
Image quality was generally good but suffered from purple fringing around many backlit subjects. Exposures were solid, with lots of detail in shadows and highlights, while colors, especially flesh tones, were realistic with the right amount of saturation. However, the images were much softer than we expected from a 5-megapixel camera, and there were lots of JPEG artifacts to be found. The camera's default ISO 80 to ISO 160 sensitivity settings produced little noise, but this grainy effect was quite visible at ISO 400 and above.
User opinions
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Great Deal
Pros: small, high quality, acurite view finder
Cons: navigation relay, 2.8x optical, flash short range
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Basic camera great price
Pros: Great Battery, large scenerio options
Cons: takes lots of time to understand the "easy" share
i recommend this camera
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Real 5MP camera with a very acceptable price
Pros: low price, good picture quality, really easy to use, small body
Cons: Doesn't support low quality picture(<1.7MP), zoom indicator is not easy to control
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Great camera
Pros: small size, easy to use, low price, 5 megapixels
Cons: nothing yet
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Great little camera for pounding around
Pros: Small size, great photos, good battery life
Cons: small size can lead to missing shots.
I have always been a canon guy, so I went to the local photo shop expecting to buy their latest and greatest small camera.
When I was looking at the case, I noticed a sale. A Kodak 5 megapixel camera for $199.
I have had this camera two weeks and so far it takes excellent pictures. The small size has allowed me to pop it into my pocket and take it places I normally wouldn't have lugged my big Canon Digital Rebel to.
At a recent company picnic I ran that camera through it's paces and overall it did well. I got some portraits, some action shots and some scenery shots that all turned out very adequate. Overall, I am very happy with this camera.
I would suggest to get a larger SD card. I got a one gig one and I still was not up to the pricepoint I would have been for a Canon digital.
So far, so good. Great little camera!
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Glowing review of the LS753
Pros: Ease of use, sharp, quality pictures, great value
Cons: Battery life
1 – Extremely user-friendly navigational tools and controls
2 – Beautiful, sharp and poignant pictures
3 – Sleek, compact and sexy metal design
4 – Tons of features and settings for different picture-taking modes
5 – No disparity in quality when uploading to image-hosting sites and digital labs
6 – Compatibility with Kodak printer docks, which are sold in every major electronics retail store
7 – Exceptional close ups
8 – Affordable and reasonable price for a 5MP
The only gripe that I have about this camera is that the battery life is horrid. More than likely it’s me, because the editor’s review on cnet as well as user reviews have all applauded the LS753’s battery life as being excellent. The circular okay button is sensitive, so less graceful photographers may get frustrated. Can I just say how easy and simple this camera is? I tinkered around with a Sony Cybershot, a Canon and a Fuji and found one major item in common: complex user interface. I don’t know about you, but having to pour through a user manual to decipher a camera’s basic functions sounds like a major production. The LS753’s functions and controls are explicitly labeled and positioned, so taking pictures is effortless. A bit of advice: don’t waste your money on a 256 MB card. Get at least a 512. The whole reason why you purchase a 5MP over a 4 is to utilize that extra megapixel of output. A 256 card will get around 150 5MP shots; a 512 gets around 300.
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Excellent Camera For Any User
Pros: Easy To Use, Intuitive, Surprisingly good Video,Long Battery Life
Cons: Small LCD, EasyShare Software not great for editing capability
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Superb camera for taking great pictures without hassles
Pros: Excellent picture quality and very easy to use
Cons: Battery cover looks a little flimsy, resets setting after shutdown
I looked past CNETs bad review of the user interface of this camera when buying it. It is really not that hard to use as the cnet review might make you think. I found the interface to be very intuitive. The OK button might mess you up a bit once or twice but not enough to hate this camera.
The picture quality of this camera is sensational. Using the Auto setting for the camera I am taking excellent pictures. The movies are fairly nice as well with sound and decent quality. I wish the output format was avi, but this camera uses the quicktime mov format.
This camera doesnt have a whole lot of manual settings that the Canon A75 had, but I almost never used the manual settings anyway.
One thing that I dont like is that most picture related settings you change are not stored after you turn off the camera. The camera defaults to Auto after shutdown. So if you have a custom group of settings for taking pictures then this camera is probably not for you.
I wanted a camera that would take good pictures without me having to tinker with a whole lot of settings and this camera fits the bill perfectly and if you are looking for a camera with similar criteria look nowhere else.
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Excellent choice for any user
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: need to buy extra memory card to take full advantage
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Easy to use and takes great pictures!
Pros: This camera is extremely easy to use and has good picture quality. I like the fact that I can store almost 300 pictures on a 256Mb memory card.
Cons: One thing that is extremely annoying is that the "OK" button is poorly designed. Another thing is that there is no option to turn off the digital zoom.
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Kodak quality again shines
Pros: very good image quality
Cons: design should be improved
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Easy to use and great pictures
Pros: Compact. Lightweight. Pictures are excellent.
Cons: Hard to see screen in the daylight.
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You wont be sorry if you buy this Camera
Pros: The only thing I can say about or to Kodak is Thank you for a great little Camera. It does everything I could ever want in a digital and the price is right.
Cons: Cant find any
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great price for a 5mp camera!!
Pros: long battery life, fast charger, great pics, uses standard SD card
Cons: no carrying case, lacks range in optical zoom
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Great 5MP compact camera
Pros: Had this camera for 3mos now, & it delivers hi-quality pix. Bought 512mb mem. which was good for video. Definitely a great buy for those who wants a point & shoot, that is compact & 5MP.
Cons: None so far
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A great camera.
Pros: Small. Pictures are superb. Easy to use. Thank you Kodak.
Cons: The screen is a little hard to see on a sunny day but that's what the viewfinder is for.
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Great value/pkg deal from whlsl club
Pros: Easy to use & understand, pkg deal came with dock & rechargable battery, picture quality exceeds expectationsI have Windows XP and am not using Kodaks software to transfer pics, I use another program for editing
Cons: None at this time
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great small point-and-shoot camera
Pros: very small, great color and photo quality, very fast auto-focus, very easy to use, 1.8" screen, 640x480 movie, can use Kodak docking stations
Cons: no manual focus, view finder inaccurate, extra batteries hard to find Overall this is an excellent camera. It is so easy to use right out of the box. The photo quality is excellent, and there are plenty of manual features. The macro area is very sma
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Simple to use for everyone
Pros: The user interface on this camera is nothing short of fantastic! Point and shoot ultimate simplicity... really good images... what more can you ask for.
Cons: It's not a digital SLR... but then again my kids can use it!
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Feature Rich Easy to use
Pros: First looked at this camera then the Canon SD 110. LS753 is Feature Rich, like comparing a MAC to Windows. Nice easy to use menues and quality of pictures at 5MP, can't beat it
Cons: Comes with a lame external charger, AC adapeter needs to be purchased.
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Easy to use - Outstanding Pictures
Pros: Controls are well placed and intuitive.
Cons: A bit tiny for these old hands. Battery and charger don't function as outlined in manual.
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Intuitive, sleek & tiny... WOW
Pros: 5 megapixels in a sexy little package that has a wide variety of options that are intuitively easy to use.
Cons:
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Great Size, Great Photos
Pros: Tiny. This camera is 4.3 x 1.9 x 1.2. It's ultra compact, but the screen is huge. Button placement is fantastic, when you're holding it, hand wont interfere with flash or lens. Rotory dial is clever and intuitive. The video is great too and mic is de
Cons: Only comes with 32 MB of memory.
