It’s easy to sneer at clumsy, sluggish superzooms, especially when compared with today’s ever nimble, budget digital SLRs. However, this Kodak delivers in some key areas: it’s light, fairly quick and easy to use, and has a long, well stabilised lens. If you can get past the weak LCD and EVF and are happy with soft, bright mages, it’s a fine camera for the money.

cnet.co.uk Review the Kodak EasyShare Z1012 IS and gave out” We like:Huge, stabilised 12x zoom; easy manual features; nice movies—We don’t like:Average images; small LCD and weak viewfinder—CNET.co.uk judgement:In a world of sub-£300 dSLRs, is there still a need for superzooms? Just about. As well as saving you £100, this 10-megapixel Kodak boasts a powerful, stabilised lens, decent HD-style — if not true HD quality — movies and a relatively slim waistline.”

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