KODAK PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ528-BK 16 MP Digital Camera with 52x Optical Zoom 24mm Wide Angle Lens 6 fps Burst Shooting 1080P Full HD Video Wi-Fi Connectivity and a 3 LCD Screen (Black)
KODAK PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ528-BK 16 MP Digital Camera with 52x Optical Zoom 24mm Wide Angle Lens 6 fps Burst Shooting 1080P Full HD Video Wi-Fi Connectivity and a 3 LCD Screen (Black)
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- 52x Optical Zoom and 24mm Wide Angle Lens
- 16 MegaPixel CMOS
- 6 frames per second Burst Shooting
- Wi-Fi Connection with the ability to Wirelessly Control with iOS or Android Devices
- 3\" LCD Screen
Brand : KODAK
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,Point & Shoot Digital Cameras
Rating : 4.2
ListPrice : US $249.99
Price : US $210.95
Review Count : 32
KODAK PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ528-BK 16 MP Digital Camera with 52x Optical Zoom 24mm Wide Angle Lens 6 fps Burst Shooting 1080P Full HD Video Wi-Fi Connectivity and a 3 LCD Screen (Black)
- I bought this for my daughter for her 16th birthday because she loves to bird watch. She loves the camera and it takes great photo’s!
- Review of KODAK PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ528-BK 16 MP Digital Camera with 52x Optical Zoom 24mm Wide Angle Lens 6 fps Burst Shooting 1080P Full HD Video Wi-Fi Connectivity and a 3\" LCD Screen (Black)When I was young, my first film camera was a Kodak. I’m glad to see they have made the transition to digital photography.This is a bridge camera. Meaning it has some features of a Point and Shoot camera and some features of a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera It has a non-changeable lens like a point-and-shoot or a cell phone camera, but it has a moveable lens that gives awesome optical magnification similar to a DSLR with changeable lenses.The Kodak AZ528 allows for various manual settings that are not available in many point and shoot cameras, but it can function well as a point-and-shoot in its automated setting. You can set it to automate Aperture settings (A) while you manually adjust the ISO, and shutter speed, or vice-versa the other settings. You can go full manual (M) on aperture, shutter, ISO. The one thing I wish it could do (maybe I just don’t know how to do it) is to allow fully manual focus. Focusing seems to be an automated process that you can select between three options. The most trouble I have with the camera is having it focus correctly. I can’t always get images to focus. For instance if I attempt to focus on a printed image on a package, it won’t resolve the edges of the graphic on the package, blurring the entire image. If I zoom out away from the graphic on the package and focus on the edges of the package it resolves much sharper. As I said, I may just not have figured out how it works yet.When I get the focus right, it does great and the image is sharp and clear when automated, or suitably adjusted to the manual settings employed, like blurred per creative use of shutter speed.It’s a lot of camera for the money ($211 today) with many of the features that my DSLR camera that costs three times as much has. It also has an optical zoom that my DSLR can’t match with my longest lens!I can see this camera becoming my vacation camera, as it can do point and shoot and some artistic manual shots and because of its incredible optical zoom capability (you can digitally zoom out to 200x)I’ve attached a few shots from the Kodak. One shot of the red package I was playing a bit with the manual settings, the other two are a test of the optical zoom. I’ve cropped the distant shot a bit and added a circle to show the area being zoomed, but you’ll get the idea, the other is zoomed to the full optical zoom level (52x).Very nice camera. Giving it 4 stars only because of my difficulty in getting the camera to focus occasionally. I may modify that if I find the fault is that I didn’t know what I was doing.
- This is a nice camera that is relatively easy to use compared to some other models I have worked with in the past. Took several great photos but quite a few duds mixed in. I found that it is a little harder to get a sharp focus than my other brand of camera and works best when sitting stable or on a tripod, especially when it is zoomed in. It is large and bulky but on the lighter side. Definitely not the best option for some place where you would be on the move shooting or bouncing around. I also had a little bit of an issue getting the flash to work when I needed it to. I was shooting in lower light by the Christmas tree and wanted a few shots where they were front lit more than what room lighting allowed. I popped the flash out and the camera decided that it didn\'t need to be on so it didn\'t use the flash. I have another more compact camera that shoots with flash if the flash bulb is deployed. It has a lot of options and customization settings available and has the workings of an advanced camera but is not my favorite just because of the blur factor and the lack of ease in focusing.
- This camera looks and feels like good quality, but unfortunately the image quality is fairly disappointing. For \'standard\' photos where you\'re within 20 feet or so of whatever you\'re taking a photo of, any modern smartphone will take a clearer photo (see comparison attached between this camera and my iPhone, taken from about 10 feet away in normal daylight conditions). The KODAK PixPro\'s photo looks okay from an initial look, but if you were to print the photo at a large scale or zoom in at all, the photo very quickly becomes blurry.The \'auto\' mode is fairly standard, you half-press the shutter button and it attempts to autofocus on the target, then full-press the button to take the photo. In playing with some of the other manual settings, I was not able to significantly improve the image quality over the \'auto\' mode so I have continued to use the \'auto\' mode since it is definitely most convenient. With my photo size and quality set to the highest levels, the photos are 3456 pixels by 4608 pixels (or 16 megapixels) but as mentioned before, the definition does not match that of an iPhone camera from short range.One thing that I found odd was that the camera did not include an SD card nor did it include full user manual (only a \'quick start guide\' with a QR code to the user manual). The online user manual recommends purchasing a \"class 4 SD card from a name brand with 4GB to 32GB capacity,\" it also states that the camera is \"not compatible with Micro SD, Ultra, Ultra Plus, Extreme, or adapters for any of these other memory cards.\"The limited SD card size is super odd - a camera that should be taking high quality photos (i.e. large files) only supporting small (less than 32GB SD cards) seems like a design flaw. Worry not though, I tested my camera with a three different SD cards: an \'approved\' Sandisk 32 GB SD card, an \'unsupported\' 64 GB \'Extreme\' SD card, and an \'unsupported\' 128 GB \'Ultra\' SD card. All three flash cards worked just fine with no noticeable issues or image quality problems with the larger SD cards.This camera doesn\'t entirely fall flat of a smart phone camera, however. This thing has incredible optical zoom that would be great for sports, birding, and other hobbies. It also has some other \'fun\' modes that work well (long exposure for firework photos, sport mode for fast-moving objects, etc).All in all, the image quality isn\'t the best but it does have some unique components that work well. If you\'re looking for a general-use camera, I would look elsewhere. If you\'re looking to take distant photos that require a lot of zoom without spending a lot more money on a camera, this may fit your needs.
- This is good for someone that isn’t looking for high quality photos. It’s definitely grainy and the focus is lackluster. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone that has owned a higher quality camera as you would be disappointed.
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