Kodak unveils P-Series digital camera line

Eastman Kodak today announced its P880 digital camera (pictured at right) featuring 8.0 megapixel resolution with a 24 – 140 mm (35mm equiv.,) f/2.8-4.1, wide-angle lens; it also debuted the P850 digital camera featuring 5.1 megapixel resolution, a 36 – 432 mm (35mm equiv.), f/2.8-3.7, image-stabilized lens. Along with a host of accessories, both models are fully compliant with Kodak's Easyshare technology and are capable of capturing 30fps VGA video with single-frame still-extraction and trim/cut/splice/merge editing abilities; they can capture up to 80 continuous minutes of Motion JPEG videos with sound depending on media card capacity. Kodak also bundles Easyshare 5 software, which procides "effortless digital picture organization, editing, sharing and printing" and now includes advanced video editing features. The P880 ($600) is to be available in September while the P850 ($500) will be available early this month.

The P880 features an optical zoom up to 140 mm (5.8X) using the manual zoom ring for precise framing; can achieve accurate focusing (even in low light conditions) with the selectable 25-point hybrid Auto Focus system or via the manual focus ring and utilize enhanced; and offers flexible lighting control via the hot shoe flash connector plus the PC sync port for off-camera flash options. Users of the P880 can select multiple shooting modes including program, aperture and shutter priorities, fully manual and custom modes.

The P850 shares many features with the P880 and includes a unique hot shoe for extended lighting control, PASMC and extensive preset scene modes, multiple burst modes for action shooting, a live histogram, highlight/shadow clipping displays and RAW/TIFF/JPEG support.

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