Eastman Kodak Company announced the latest M-Series Digital Camera to join its EASYSHARE System portfolio. The KODAK EASYSHARE M1093 IS Digital Camera, a sleek but powerful digital camera for style-conscious consumers, is packed with innovative features, including Kodak’s Smart Capture, which instantly adjusts the camera settings to help ensure brilliant pictures in virtually any environment – automatically.
The KODAK EASYSHARE M1093 IS Digital Camera is the newest member of Kodak’s line of affordable EASYSHARE M-Series Zoom Digital Cameras for the style-savvy consumer. A range of features lets consumers capture and share their memorable moments quickly and effortlessly:
- Innovative Smart Capture feature identifies the scene and adjusts camera settings for a great picture in just about any environment – automatically.
- Take stunning HD pictures and video and view them on an HDTV with the optional KODAK EASYSHARE HDTV Dock.
- Reduce blur caused by camera shake, subject movement or fast-action situations with image stabilization and blur reduction technology.
- For great shots of friends and family, face detection technology locates faces and automatically adjusts the camera settings.
- Capture the details in low light conditions and fast action situations with high ISO (up to 3200).
With its limited feature set, the M1093 focuses on snapshots. It’s a capable point-and-shoot with a responsive autofocus and fast snapping speeds. Start-up is quick enough, with the camera ready to capture an image in less than 2 seconds. Burst mode is limited to three shots, but captures them in a creditable 2 seconds. Capturing burst shots — and erasing images — does lead to a short delay with an on-screen processing message, but that’s just us being impatient.
“Underneath its sleek exterior, the KODAK EASYSHARE M1093 IS Digital Camera is a powerhouse built to capture beautiful pictures,” said John Blake, general manager Digital Capture and Devices, Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “The Smart Capture feature available on our latest digital cameras, including the M1093 IS, lets consumers capture moments that would have otherwise been missed, thanks to its intuitive and automatic scene detection and setting control.”
The camera is controlled with a jaunty little joystick. This is one of the better mini-joysticks we’ve seen because the indent where it sits is large enough to let you move it comfortably about without squashing a thumb against the rest of the frame. We’re less keen on the flattened zoom control pad, though, which has only the slightest contour to rock the button from side-to-side. It’s not terribly responsive, not helped by the limited number of steps in the zooming process.
Things are kept uncluttered by shifting the flash and mode selectors to the top, next to the power button and flat shutter release.The M1093 is sleekly masculine, like a well-cut suit. It comes in a brushed silver casing with an understated diagonal slice across the front, a subtly contoured face and a flush-folding lens. The minimalist look is continued at the back with the 76mm (3-inch) expanse of screen and neatly-placed, uncluttered controls to the right. Although the screen is large, it isn’t as crisp as it we’d like, with diagonal lines rendered a little jagged.
Kodak continues to bring groundbreaking features to its award-winning KODAK EASYSHARE Digital Photography System, enhancing the digital photography experience for consumers worldwide. The EASYSHARE System consists of digital cameras, picture frames, snapshot printers, online services, software, inkjet printers, and accessories—making picture-taking, sharing and archiving effortless. All KODAK EASYSHARE Products being introduced today include the latest Version 7 of KODAK EASYSHARE Software featuring an array of enhancements to help consumers find, create and share pictures like never before. Version 7 Software now includes direct access to KODAK Gallery making it simple to find albums stored online. The new KODAK EASYSHARE Software Version 7 can be downloaded for free.
The KODAK EASYSHARE M1093 IS Digital Camera will retail for US$199.95 MSRP.