Snap Easy, Affordable Pics With Kodak EasyShare

Nov. 30, 2009— -- Every year, digital cameras include more powerful features at a more affordable price, allowing amateur and professional photographers alike to produce high quality photos.

Kodak's newest version of the EasyShare digital camera enables any type of consumer to capture stunning photos with ease.

Among its most notable features, the Kodak EasyShare M381 Digital Camera, which retails for $179.99, has a 5X optical zoom lens, allowing you to get closer to your subjects without compromising the image quality.

Kodak's Smart Capture technology automatically analyzes the scene and adjusts the camera settings to create the best possible image. It searches for faces and adjusts lighting, color and focus automatically.

This feature, plus its 12-megapixel sensor, allows you to maintain a great picture quality, even on prints as large as 30 by 40 inches. If also captures HD photos.

The pocket-size camera can focus on up to five faces at once and reduces blur caused by moving objects or a sudden camera shake.

The EasyShare Camera provides various on-camera photo-enhancing features, such as color modes and cropping.

You can manually select the color modes and create your perfect shot by cropping photos.

The Kodak Perfect Touch technology makes colors more vivid and clears up dark shadows, leaving you with brighter photos.

After you're finished shooting, you can tag each photo on-camera, so that you can find them and organize them once you upload the photos to your computer.

Other on-camera features include a multimedia slideshow, which allows you to select photos, audio themes, creative transitions and a panorama stitch mode, which combines up to three shots in one large photo.

Aside from the multiple still photo settings, the camera has advanced video features that include audio capture, playback, on-camera editing and the ability to capture stills from video.

Kodak makes it easy for users to upload photos and video directly to YouTube or the Kodak Gallery through a red "Share" button on the back of the camera and Kodak's special sharing software.