Adding to Its EasyShare Camera Line-up, Kodak Launches High Performance DX4330 Zoom Digital Camera and Point-and-Shoot CX4200 Digital Camera.Business Editors & Technology Writers ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002 Kodak EasyShare Kodak EasyShare is a sub brand of Eastman Kodak Company products identifying a consumer photography system of digital cameras, snapshot printers, printer docks, accessories, camera docks, software, and online print services. EasyShare was first introduced in 2001. DX4330 Debuts New LCD Screen for Improved Viewing in Direct Sunlight Eastman Kodak Company today added two new models to its industry-leading family of Kodak EasyShare digital cameras. The DX4330 Zoom Digital Camera is designed to deliver great pictures even under tricky picture-taking conditions, while the CX4200 Digital Camera allows people to explore the benefits and fun of digital photography. The DX4330 is the first camera to debut Kodak's new 1.8" Indoor/Outdoor LCD display for effortless viewing even in bright sunlight. The powerful, 3.1 Megapixel One million pixels. Refers to the resolution of a digital imaging device (monitor, scanner, video camera, still camera, etc.). For example, a five-megapixel digital still camera might take a picture composed of 5,038,848 red-green-blue color dots (pixels). (MP) DX4330 features 10X zoom with a premium Kodak Retinar aspheric a·spher·ic also a·spher·i·cal adj. Varying slightly from sphericity and having only slight aberration, as a lens. Adj. 1. all-glass 3X optical zoom Changing the focal length of a camera by adjusting the physical zoom lens. All zoom lenses in film cameras and digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are optical zoom. Digital point-and-shoot cameras as well as consumer and prosumer video camcorders have optical zoom, but they also lens, producing amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. prints up to 11" x 14". It offers high-performance features including a user-friendly dial that gives fast access to various scene modes such as close-up, landscape, sport, night or fully automatic. Other features of this new model include continuous capture of video and sound - limited only by the size of the memory card. It will be available worldwide in early September at a suggested retail price of $349.95. The easy-to-use point and shoot CX4200 offers 2.0 MP with 2X digital zoom Simulating a longer focal length in a digital camera via software. The digital zoom is accomplished via image enhancement software within the camera itself rather than the inherent mechanics of the physical zoom lens. For more details, see optical zoom. , and is ideal for great prints up to 8" x 10". It will debut in late August at a suggested retail price of $179.95. "Digital camera users enjoy the immediacy im·me·di·a·cy n. pl. im·me·di·a·cies 1. The condition or quality of being immediate. 2. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage. of on-camera sharing with their family and friends and the new DX4330's large Kodak Indoor/Outdoor LCD enhances that experience even in bright sunlight," said Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (August 14, 1910–August 19, 1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. The term is often misunderstood as referring to simply making music out of "real world" sounds, or sounds other than those made by musical , chief marketing officer and vice president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging division. "As the latest members of the Kodak EasyShare system, the DX4330 and CX4200 offer the hallmarks of EasyShare - ease-of-use, high quality prints and the broadest number of integrated printing options." The DX4330 and the CX 4200 make sharing pictures one-touch easy with the recently-introduced on-camera "share" button, which allows users to tag pictures for easy printing, e-mailing or as favorites right on the camera's LCD display. With the "share" button, print tagging is as simple as choosing the picture and selecting the number of prints required. When the cameras are placed in the Kodak EasyShare camera dock and pictures are transferred, the Kodak EasyShare software automatically launches the print screen for making prints at home or ordering prints online through service providers. E-mail tagging is also simple and powerful. Users simply tag the picture for e-mailing and select an address directly from the cameras, which store up to 32 e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address . Both cameras offer an automatic picture rotation feature that ensures that pictures always appear right side up on the camera, computer or TV. In addition, the cameras ensure that users will not miss the shot because they are always ready to snap a picture even when the camera is not in the capture mode. Both come with 16MB of internal memory and consumers can expand their picture-taking capacity with MultiMediaCard or Secure Digital memory cards via the cameras' expansion slot A receptacle inside a computer or other electronic system that accepts a printed circuit board. The number of slots determines future expansion. See PC data buses. (hardware) expansion slot - A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. . Like all Kodak EasyShare cameras, the cameras are designed to ensure the highest picture quality and benefit from the power of Kodak color science inside, Kodak's built-in proprietary color management technology that produces exceptional color quality under any lighting condition. Both cameras are compatible with the Kodak EasyShare camera dock II, which allows consumers to upload their digital pictures at the touch of a button and quickly recharge re·charge tr.v. re·charged, re·charg·ing, re·charg·es To charge again, especially to reenergize a storage battery. re the camera battery pack. The dock also includes separate indicator lights for picture transfer and battery charging status. Combining a full line-up of digital cameras, camera dock and enhanced Kodak EasyShare software, the Kodak EasyShare system is the recognized standard for ease of use in consumer digital photography. The EasyShare system makes getting prints virtually effortless, giving consumers the option to print at home using One Touch to Better Pictures and Kodak inkjet paper Inkjet paper is paper designed for inkjet printers, typically classified by its weight, brightness and smoothness, and sometimes by its opacity. Successful inkjet printing requires the paper to have exactly the right degree of absorbency to accept the ink but prevent its ; from home by uploading to either the EasyShare print service or another online photofinisher; or at retail using Kodak digitally-enabled kiosks or over the counter. Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures -- for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in "infoimaging" -- a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and PDAs), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of $13.2 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. , optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services. (Kodak and EasyShare are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.) Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : For additional information about Kodak, visit our web site on the Internet at: www.kodak.com. |
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