By H. Patel “H. P.” (Columbus, OH)

The Kodak EasyShare ZD710 combines a seven megapixel CCD imager and a Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon-branded 10x optical zoom lens with a very useful 38 - 380mm equivalent focal range. The ZD710 offers digital image stabilization, which prevent blurs due to camera shake. For framing images, the Kodak ZD710 has a 2.0″ 150K pixel LCD display as well as a higher resolution 201K pixel electronic viewfinder. Images are stored on SDHC/SD/MMC memory cards, or in 32MB of internal memory.


The Kodak ZD710 has 16 scene modes to help beginners achieve the results they’re looking for without the need to understand subtleties like shutter speeds, apertures and the like. Scene modes provided are: portrait, sports, landscape, candlelight, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text, fireworks, flower, manner/museum, self-portrait, children, backlight and sunset. But the ZD710 offers additional exposure modes sure to please the enthusiast, including P (program), A (aperture priority), S (shutter priority), M (manual), smart scene, high ISO, digital image stabilization and panorama. The ZD710 determines exposures with a TTL metering system offering multi-pattern, center-weighted and spot modes, and offers 2.0EV of exposure compensation in 1/3EV increments. Five white balance settings are available including an auto mode, and ISO sensitivity can be set to Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1,600, all at full resolution. The EasyShare ZD710 also offers a movie mode, capturing VGA (640×480) or QVGA (320×240) clips at 30 fps, both with audio. Movies are encoded in QuickTime Motion-JPEG format.Images and movies captured on the Kodak ZD710 are transferred to your computer over a USB 2.0 Full Speed connection, rather slower than the USB 2.0 High Speed connections offered on many cameras these days. Power comes from two AA batteries (NiMH, lithium, or oxy-alkaline), a CRV3 disposable lithium, or an optional KODAK KAA2HR NiMH rechargeable battery pack. The ZD710 ships with a disposable lithium battery.

By gracielagata (CA)

i won’t mention any features or anything, as the other review has covered this, plus that i not what my review is about, but here is my experience with this camera.
i ordered this online from another large retailer, as i couldn’t find it in any stores. i had read reviews previous to purchase saying the lens cap had issues staying on, figured, ah, no big deal. well, it wouldn’t stay on to save its life. actually quite bothersome, when you see how large the lens is, and realize it is giving the lens no protection at that point. The body of the camera also felt very light and breakable. So i had it barely a month, hardly touched it the whole time, go to take a picture with it, and lo and behold the LCD screen won’t work, oh and look, the EVF won’t turn on either. and i had it barely a month as i said. it is going back to the store, thank goodness they have a liberal return policy. I went and bought the fujifilm finepix s5700 instead for 200, and it feels much sturdier, etc, like it isn’t going to fall apart if i sneeze on it, as the kodak seems to have demonstrated. Kodak has lost my business.

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