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Kodak Moment
by By Terry Currier—NOCCC , tcurrier@aol.com - December 18, 2000 at 14:47:22:
At COMDEX, the press were very fortunate this year. Palm loaned us units to try out, Kodak also loaned us their model 4800 digital camera, along with a PalmPix camera. I never really thought about buying a Palm. Mainly because I didn’t feel I had a real need for it. I really don’t make a lot of appointments and, what few I do, I put into a paperback calendar. Also they really are not cheap compared to that paperback calendar. However, I have to admit, after using the Palm, it is really fun. There are many cool programs to use with it such as: To-do list, memo, calendar, and even restaurant guides. One, which they beamed to people at Comdex, was Jungleport which lists shows, restaurants, yellow pages, and attractions in Las Vegas. Within the restaurants, you can pick a type you want and see a review, or it would show a simple map. The good news is they also list Los Angeles and it is FREE. Just go to www.jungleport.com and download it for your Palm or Handspring. One other company, at At the Silicon Northwest event, Pistachio Inc. was showing a turnkey, wireless information delivery service with one of its BeamStation, . With it, they could beam applications and information into a customer’s handheld computers. At the Silicon Northwest event they beamed exhibitor’s information onto the Palm.What I thought was the most fun was the Kodak PalmPix. Since I was carrying the Palm anyway; adding on the PalmPix is just another 3 inches. When I didn’t need it, I could just take it off. It’s simple to use, just attach it to the Palm through the serial port connector. The pictures themselves are 24-bit 640x 480, or you can take 340x240 (but why). It previews on the LCD screen in 16 level grayscale mode at three frames per second. Once you capture the picture it takes about 3-5 seconds for it to write it to the Palm. To view them on the Palm itself, click on the PalmPix icon. When you download it, the image is in full color. The 640x480 resolution is perfect for the web. Will I get one? Well I really considered it, but then I happened to win a Handspring Visor at an APCUG meeting and darn, it won’t work with a Visor model. Nothing against the Visor camera model, but it only takes 340x240. It fits very nicely onto the Visor, but after using the PalmPix, I will wait for the Kodak model. By the way, I do really like the Handspring Visor also, it is fully software compatible with the Palm.
The Kodak 4800 digital camera was great to work with. I honestly did not have the time to work with all the settings and capabilities of it. For instance, it can project the pictures onto a TV using cables. You can change the settings from 100, 200, 400 ISO equivalent but I left it at 200. It can take pictures up to 3.1 megapixel, but I left it at two megapixel so I could take more pictures. The batteries lasted much longer than those with AAA type did. There are manual and automatic settings, but I left it at automatic. Whether inside or out the camera took good pictures so I did not have to “find” the right settings. The first four nights at COMDEX I would go from the Comdex show to press shows.
On Thursday night I got to go on the McAfee blimp for a ride. It was truly beautiful with the Las Vegas lights on I took over 50 pictures. Most came out really good, the ones that didn’t were when the blimp turned and the lights look like a blur.
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