Geeks.com, home to many Kodak digital cameras, sent us in the Kodak V1073 10MP digicam, one of the first touchscreen digicams in the market. Naturally, we had to put its user interface under some scrutiny, and compare it to the UI of the non-touchscreen Kodak cameras.
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2005-06-29
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Am I the only person left in the world who hates touchscreens? I hated it on my mobile phone and I sure don't want one on a camera. It's bad enough that they don't put viewfinders on these little camera's any more. Now, as well as not being able to see the screen in sunlight to compose the shot, you won't be able to work the controls either. Thank god I have an SLR where buttons and viewfinders are mandatory. How long before we get laptops without proper keyboards but with a cruddy touchscreen instead? Touchscreens are a stupid fad that I hope dies out soon. Die, die, die!
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Maybe they're in fashion because of the moving, uncryptic UI instead of the fixed buttons which can't be changed except in their functions?
Granted, in the future, I hope to see better, more dynamic haptics to be infused with touchscreens so that we can instantaneously "feel" and "press" the dimensions of whatever we're seeing on the screen (ideally, a plus for the visually impaired if dynamically-rendered Braille raised dots are incorporated); haptic touchscreens, IMO, are only the bare basics of a fluid, click/press-heavy 2D UI.
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2009-07-22
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I wouldn't say they are crappy. Sure they are crappy compared to a DSLR, but for a $100 camera, it performs much better than others. Everything is relative in this world.
Besides, Kodak's main market is actually printing pictures, and these pics do look good printed. Family people need no more than that.
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