KODAK CAMERA HAS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

Film isn't dead but I'm hard pressed to remember the last time I saw someone taking pictures who wasn't using a digital model. Yes I can still buy VCR tapes, cassettes and records but why would I want to when I can buy DVDs,
mp3 recorder/players and CDs? I acknowledge that there will always be someone out there who will buck the trends and technological benefits. I figure they either derive some strange pleasure letting people know they like doing things the old fashioned way, or they somehow feel that the old analog technology looks and sound "richer" than their digital counterparts.
Then again it just may be that they think an old dog can't learn new tricks which is pretty silly since these newer technologies are actually more simple to use while empowering their user with so many more abilities.

To me, if I had to pick the most important thing one gets using a digital camera, I would have to say that it's instant gratification. You immediately get to see the picture you just took on the camera's color screen. And right in line with that gratification comes the ability to share your images with everyone who's with you. So the bigger the screen on the camera, the easier it is to let everyone around you see what you just took. Many of the newer cameras are offering 2.5 and even 3 inch screens.
It is this concept of sharing that is the focal point of Kodak's latest digital camera, the EasyShare-One. But this camera goes way beyond sharing via its 3 inch screen that also pivots out and tilts for easier viewing by everyone. It's one of the first consumer digital cameras to have wireless Wi-Fi communications built in.

If you're near any wireless hotspot, you can transmit the camera's images directly over the Internet without a computer. Using the built-in stylus, simply select any picture you've taken that's stored in the camera's memory and want to share. You can compose an email message directly on the camera by tapping your message in via the virtual keyboard displayed on the screen.
Tap in the email address and tap the send button and your email message along with the pictures you've attached are instantly sent out over the Internet via the wireless connection.

The Wi-Fi abilities can also be used to send your images directly into your personal computer. And Kodak's newest EasyShare Photo Printer Dock Plus, Series 3 also has Wi-Fi so you can wirelessly transmit any picture from your camera to be instantly printed. Of course you can also directly connect the EasyShare-One camera directly to the computer via a USB connection as well as docking the camera directly on top of the printer. This latter method lets you use the EasyShare-One's 3 inch screen as the printer's monitor screen so you can make printer selections via on-screen menus as well as preview what is about to be printed. This double use of the camera's screen for both camera and printer is clever and economical. A printer with its own color screen would be more expensive as is the case for Kodak's older Photo Printer 500.

As for the EasyShare-One's other specifications, they are fairly standard, offering a 4 megapixel image, 256 megabytes of built-in memory (expandable via flash memory cards), a 3X optical zoom lens, auto focus, built-in flash with red-eye elimination, self timer and a burst mode for faster pause times between pictures. It can also record sounds via its built-in microphone as well as take full-motion videos with their duration limited only by the amount of memory in the camera. The 3 inch color touch screen lets you perform a wide array of editing features such as an on camera cropping ability via a moveable crop window.

The Kodak EasyShare-One is a remarkable digital camera from one of the world's leading camera manufacturers. And while its general abilities are sufficient for most of us average picture takers, the addition of Wi-Fi and the camera's built-in software that takes advantage of that wireless ability certainly makes this camera stand out in the crowd.

Windows and Macintosh compatible, the EasyShare-One camera sells for $599.95. The EasyShare-One Photo Printer Dock Plus, Series 3 goes for $170.95.

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