Kodak Easy Share P880 - User Notes

User Notes

• The P20 hotshoe accessory flash is fully automatic with the P880. The flash tilts and can be bounced off the ceiling with automatic exposure adjustment. The P880's flash and the P20 use a pre-flash before the main flash so the camera's autoexposure functions properly. The pre-flash to shutter delay is faster with the P20 which reduces the chance of subjects blinking. The P20 has a guide number of 24 to 40 depending on zoom level at ISO 100, much more powerful than the built in flash with a GN of 9 (ISO 100). It is the number one recommended add on for the P880 to extend its usability.
• Especially at the discounted prices many units sold at, the P880 has a desirable 24mm (35mm equivalent) wide end of the zoom range. Few compact cameras have this. An entry level DSLR with a third party lens capable of the same image quality at 24mm and above was two or three times the cost of the P880.
• The SD card file system is FAT16. 4Gb capacity is not supported.
• Does not have remote control. However provides an additional 2 second delayed timed shutter release in addition to the 10 second self-timer.
• Not really compatible with the Olympus teleconverter model tcon-17 due to some vignetting, best to use Kodak's 1.4x teleconverter. Not compatible with any wide angle converters; really does not need it due to excellent 24mm wide angle lens.
• KDC is directly supported by
  • Kodak Easyshare software - comes with the camera
  • SilkyPix Developer Studio (Windows only)
  • Adobe Lightroom (Windows and Mac)
  • Picasa (Windows)
  • newer versions of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - there is an Adobe Camera Raw 3.6 plugin. (Windows and Mac)
  • Adobe DNG Converter (available for Windows and Mac) which implies that once the .DNG file is created, any program that can process .DNG files can be used.
  • Vuescan (Windows and Mac)
  • dcraw command line tool (Windows, Mac, Linux) The UFRaw plugin for The Gimp relies on dcraw.
  • IrfanView 3.98t - the interim-version 3.98t. (Windows)
  • graphic converter 5.9.3 (Mac - shareware)
  • XnView 1.90 Beta (Windows)
  • Helicon Filter (Windows)
  • RawTherapee (Windows)
  • RAW Photo Processor (Andrey Tverdokhleb) (Mac)
• Manual focus feature is hampered by relatively coarse resolution EVF and LCD screen.
• Visual estimation of contrasty outdoor scenes can be unreliable using the LCD screen. The LCD screen tends to show a pale, bright interpretation of the scene or the captured image. Either switch on the info for histogram and shadow/highlight clipping emphasis or use the EVF for better visual estimation.
• Continuous Auto Focus mode is quite noisy. Use the Single AF option.