Kodak Slice 14MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Prism 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.5-Inch Touch-Screen LCD (Magenta)

by Kodak

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6.6 x 2.9 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0031RGGB6
• Item model number: Slice Red
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,600 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 5, 2010

Product Description

Color: Magenta

From the Manufacturer

Reconnect to your pictures. Redefine how you share them. Connect instantly to your memories, cruise through thousands of shots, and sort them by person, place, location, date, event, and more.

The Kodak Slice is not an ordinary camera. It’s an instant connection to all of your memories. With its sleek touchscreen interface, you can cruise through thousands of your favorite shots. And with just a tap, the unique Slice Search feature lets you sort pictures by person, occasion or date. The Kodak Slice also recognizes friends by face, so even the moments you can’t put a label on are as easy to find as they are impossible to forget. You’ve always kept your pictures close to heart. Now you can have them all right at your fingertips.

Kodak Slice Features & Highlights

Touchscreen interface

• Explore your pictures with the brilliant and intuitive 3.5 in. 16:9 touchscreen interface featuring Kodak Color Science Technology for brighter, more vibrant details
• Capacitive touchscreen can be controlled with the slightest touch of your fingertip, providing you with a responsive, fluid experience
• Anti-reflective coating keeps your pictures free from glare even under bright sunlight

Slice Search feature

• The Slice Search feature allows you to sort by person, place, event, location, or by any of the manual tags you use for your pictures.
• Share pictures instantly with the one-button upload feature--choose from a single picture to an entire collection.

Kodak’s Face Recognition feature

• Find, organize, and share your pictures easily
• Camera automatically recognizes up to 20 pre-tagged faces so you can easily locate and share them later
• Recognizes up to five faces in a single image
• Name tags carry over to your favorite photo management software for easy searching

Store up to 5,000 pictures
The Slice Album feature puts all your pictures at your fingertips--automatically storing an HD resolution copy of up to 5,000 images on 2 GB of internal memory (and your original high resolution pictures are maintained on the optional MicroSD/MicroSDHC card)

5x optical zoom
The 5x Schneider-Kreuznach optical zoom lens zooms in close for extraordinary details on faraway shots

Ready, steady, go

• Optical image stabilization ensures your shots are always sharp, automatically
• Reduce blur caused by camera shake, subject movement, or fast-action situations

Amazing quality prints with 14 megapixels

• 14-megapixel resolution means you can make stunning prints up to 30 x 40 inches
• More megapixels means you can crop and enlarge and still have great picture quality
• However you choose to print--at home, at retail, or online--trust Kodak for picture quality that’s truly exceptional and for memories that will last

Kodak's Smart Capture feature
Become a better photographer with a smarter camera. Kodak’s innovative Smart Capture feature automatically identifies the scene and adjusts camera settings for a great picture in just about any environment.

• Intelligent scene detection--detects and analyzes scene conditions
• Intelligent capture control automatically sets camera settings, including exposure, focus and ISO for clear, sharp pictures even in low light and challenging situations
• Intelligent image processing reduces noise and clears up dark shadows for vibrant, crisp details and true-to-life colors

HD picture capture

• Take stunning HD pictures in 16:9 format
• View pictures in high definition on an HDTV or other HD devices

HD video capture

• Capture HD quality video at 720p at 30 fps with sound and on-camera editing
• Save single frames and e-mail family and friends

High ISO mode
See the details in low-light conditions and fast-action situations with high ISO (up to 3200).

Scene modes and on-camera picture enhancing features

• Get the right shot--manually select from the multiple scene and color modes
• Create your perfect shot with cropping, auto picture rotation, and undo-delete
• Panorama stitch mode combines up to three shots into one large picture

Kodak PERFECT TOUCH Technology

• Make your pictures as vivid as the moment you took them
• Relive your memories in richer detail
• Clear up dark shadows and reveal better, brighter pictures

Don’t miss a shot with Li-Ion rechargeable batteries

• Get energy that lasts with the power of the included Li-Ion rechargeable battery and in-camera charging
• Smaller, lighter battery with higher voltage and energy capacity

One button upload--turn moments into memories

• Snap your picture
• Press the Share button and tag it for Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Kodak Gallery, plus e-mail too
• Connect to your PC and off they go!

What's in the Box

• Kodak Slice touchscreen camera
• Kodak rechargeable Li-ion battery
• Kodak USB AC adapter for in-camera charging
• Wrist strap
• USB cable
• User guide with Kodak EasyShare software

Product Description

The Kodak SLICE Touchscreen Digital Camera lets you organize and share your full collection of pictures, instantly. The SLICE features an intuitive 3.5” 16:9 touchscreen interface and a one-button upload to YouTube, Facebook, Flickr or Kodak Gallery, plus email too. The internal memory holds up to 5,000 pictures in HD resolution. Other features include Kodak’s Face Recognition, Smart Capture technology, Optical Image Stabilization and a 5x Schneider-Kreuznach prism lens. SLICE is compatible with PC or Apple iLife software and includes a rechargeable Li-Ion battery.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

114 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong offering from Kodak, but not perfect, May 6, 2010

By 

E. Yasi (Waltham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Slice 14MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Prism 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.5-Inch Touch-Screen LCD (Black) (Electronics)

After having used my Kodak Slice camera for a few hours here are my initial thoughts: overall I like the camera very much, and imagine I'll be using it a great deal, BUT it's not perfect.

Positives: I really like the look of the camera. (I got it in black.) The front of the camera is rather featureless but attractive in a utilitarian sort of way. The back is dominated by a very large touchscreen. The top buttons are raised slightly and surrounded by translucent plastic that lights up and blinks when the camera is charging or connected to a computer. (It works with both Macs and PCs, so Apple owners need not worry.) It'll comfortably fit in most pockets. It's not as ultraslim as some other cameras in the price range, but overall I very much like how it feels when holding it.

I find most cameras' controls frustrating: It's never immediately obvious how to do simple things like turn off the flash, adjust scene settings, etc. I eventually figure it out, but everyone seems to do it a little differently, and figuring out which little switch to push in which direction is tedious. I really like the Slice's touchscreen: it does almost everything except take the picture and zoom in/out. It's nicely responsive: not as good as the screens on more expensive smartphones like iPhones or the better Droids, but nevertheless does the job well. It's size is wonderful for previewing pictures you just took, and the layout of the menus and controls are obvious for the most part.

One thing that may be confusing to some is the idea of the 'Slice Album'. When Kodak refers to '5000 pictures' on your camera, they're talking about the small versions of every photo you take that get retained in the camera's memory in what they call the 'Slice Album'. These are NOT full photos, but rather scaled down versions that remain on the camera. Every time you take a picture and don't immediately delete it, the camera will not only save the full-sized image in memory, but also save the smaller version into the 'Slice Album', where it will stay indefinitely. Eventually when you transfer the image off the camera and delete it, the full-sized copy goes away, but the smaller 'Slice Album' version does NOT. There's a small review button to the left of the other buttons on the top of the camera, and when you press that, even when the camera is off, you will see all the photos in your Slice Album and search by tag or look through them sequentially. The benefit of this is that your camera is always carrying a copy of the last several thousand photos you've taken in your Slice Album, and they're always there to show someone from your camera. Think of it as a gallery of large 'thumbnails' always available to show people. Another nice thing about the Slice Album is that you can also tag your photos in various ways (location, keyword, people), and have the 1000s of photos available to show someone as long as you have your camera with you, and you can quickly search via tags for that one photo or set of photos you want to show them.

You really do want to get some microSD memory to give yourself some 'legroom' for the full-sized photos (I found some cheap class 6 Transcend microsd cards on Amazon for about $20 each, so I got two and now have 16gb of space, and since I have two cards I can use one for everyday and one for special trips, etc..) Overall the Slice Album is a very clever idea, but Kodak isn't doing themselves any favors by not describing it more thoroughly, and leading people to think the camera stores thousands of full-sized photos, which is NOT what it is doing.

I'd say image quality is very good, but not excellent. (Keep in mind I just take casual photos, so I'm no judge of professional quality). Photos aren't always quite as sharp as I'd like when using its autofocus, but the colors are nice, and the 14MP is more than enough for my needs. It's easy to switch into video mode, and other than the camera occasionally struggling to maintain focus I liked the quality. Facial recognition seemed to work well, and image stabilization also worked well: I didn't notice much blurring to my motions, and I'm not always the steadiest when it comes to taking pictures. (In fact, i'm a bit of a klutz...)

I like the idea of the 'Share Button' a lot, but the implementation is a mixed bag: on the good side, it's pretty slick that I can set up several share destinations (facebook, flickr, the Kodak Gallery, and e-mail addresses of my choice amongst others), and then for each picture I've taken I can quickly get to a sharing screen and check off what destination(s) to send it to. Then, the next time I sync to my PC/Mac it will pull the photos/videos over to the computer, and then send them off to their appropriate destinations. I was able to easily send photos to Facebook, Flickr, and the Kodak Gallery with little effort. I was also able to set up e-mail destinations for my TwitPic and TwitVid accounts, and shared pictures and videos with similar ease.

Cons:

As mentioned above, some pictures focus was less sharp than I'd want when using autofocus, and in videos it would blur then re-focus a little more often than I'd expect.

While the Share Button app is a great idea, there's still a few ways it should be fleshed out: For starters, where's Twitter?!? I set up TwitPic and TwitVid e-mail addresses manually, but it would be nice to have Twitter as a pre-set destination just like Facebook and the others. On my first batch of synced photos, one that I had marked to send to my TwitPic e-mail didn't make it through, even though the app claimed all photos were sent successfully. A second batch were delivered to their destinations fine, including TwitPic. You also can't specify what message goes along with your photos or videos, they just get a generic message like 'New pictures from my KODAK camera'. Being able to specify a custom comment would make this much more flexible.

They already have a firmware update out, but you must have a microsd card and a pc or netbook that can write to it, in order to install the update. You download it to your PC/laptop, unzip it (a step they fail to mention in their instructions!!!), and then move the *unzipped file* onto your microsd card. (The Transcend microsd cards I got came with a standard SD adapter so I could insert them into my laptop's reader.) Once you have the file on the microsd card you insert it into the camera and then the next time you turn it on the camera will ask if you want to update the firmware. It would be better if you didn't have to go through all that to do a firmware update, and could just do it via the USB connection like many other devices do. But at least they ARE providing firmware updates, so that's a good thing!

Summary:

Overall, I think the Slice is a solid camera that is easy to use with nice styling, and that (with some room for improvement) makes it easy to share photos to multiple destinations. At its list price there's lots of very strong competition that give it a good run for its money, but at the price Amazon and others are currently selling it at, it's a more compelling product that I'm very happy with.

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kodak Slice Rocks, August 31, 2010

By 

Cisco Kid - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak Slice 14MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Prism 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.5-Inch Touch-Screen LCD (Black) (Electronics)

Ok, so I'm tired of people bashing things they buy because they're too lazy or stupid to figure it out or do it the right way. I don't care what people say, this camera is amazing! I got it out of the box, fully charged the battery before ever turning it on and in the mean time, I went online and downloaded the firmware update. Granted, I understand that people might not have an SD slot on their computer, but most newer HPs or iMacs and a lot of laptops have an SD slot standard, so it becomes easier every day to get that kind of thing resolved. (I have a 3 year old HP and new iMac, so I can't complain about this issue.) If you don't have this on your computer, you can always find someone that does.

After I fully charged the camera, I checked what firmware it came with FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS ON THE KODAK WEBSITE, which is listed on a paper that came with the camera. I noticed the screen being a bit slow and non responsive, so I was hoping the firmware update would fix that, and boy did it ever! It takes a bit to update everything and you have to do it in a few different steps, but if you read and follow the site's directions and are a bit computer savvy, this is not a problem whatsoever, and totally worth the wait. BTW, don't forget to format the Micro SD card in the camera before saving the update on it, since it needs to be done for the camera to recognize it and this process will delete everything on the card.

After everything was installed and updated I powered the camera back on and I can only say that it was worth the wait and the camera is worth every penny i paid for it. It takes awesome pictures and the screen is almost as responsive as my iPhone 4!!! There is a bit of a lag between taking pictures since it will show you the picture you just took, but a light tap on the button to take pictures with brings you right back to the camera view. If you use the red eye reduction option, there is a bit of a delay between what you see and what you shoot, which can be difficult if you have small kids like me or kids in sports and such. I just turn that option off and do the automatic flash and I can always touch up pictures on the computer if it is too bad.

The LCD display is a bit grainy in low light, but the pictures come out great and the flash does what it is supposed to do. The camera takes great pictures in auto mode and adjusts accordingly. There is also an option to change everything manually, but I probably won't mess with it unless I have plenty of time or I want to be really creative.

About the internal memory; the camera's documentation and description clearly states that the internal memory only stores a thumbnail of your pictures, not a full version and that a micro SD card has to be installed. Again, if you don't read anything, you have no reason to complain. You can buy a good 4 gig card on Amazon for like 5 bucks nowadays, so please don't complain. That is an amazing price, since they were $40 a little over a year ago. Just make sure it comes with an adapter if you want to plug it directly into your computer.

This camera has some awesome options, mainly the share button and you can tag people and upload directly to facebook or wherever you want to send pictures to, just check it on the screen and everything gets done for you. The camera does however not have some gadgets that other cameras have, like that black and white picture option with a splash of color like some Canons have, but oh well, that will only be part of that creative mood that comes out once in a while and there is computer software for that.

Over all this camera is awesome and I highly recommend it if you don't like buttons and a good camera. Check store websites often since this camera is being offered at 199 a lot, and that's a really good price for what you get.

I hope this review helps and convinces you to go ahead and get this camera.

63 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars To Make Your First Experience A Little Better..., April 19, 2010

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George B. (San Luis Obispo, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kodak Slice 14MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Prism 5x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.5-Inch Touch-Screen LCD (Black) (Electronics)

"The internal memory holds up to 5,000 pictures in HD resolution"... well it's not a big deal, but this apparently does not mean what you might think it means! After hours on hold with Kodak Chat and Kodak Phone I've finally decided that... No, you can't use Internal Memory for much of anything. You must buy the additional external memory card (available above, and very cheap). When you first get the camera it will be set at 10MP pictures and you will see that you have 00007 pictures available on internal memory at that setting! If you change it to 2MP pictures you will have 00033 pictures available on internal memory. I was thinking... "What about my 5000 pictures that they talk about!!" I guess that 90% of internal memory is used for software and the Kodak Album or whatever. This is not bad thing but I gave it one less star because of the hours spent figuring it out! So now you don't have to. I have no idea why they stress the "5000 pictures stored on internal memory" without telling you that you MUST buy the external card too if you need to store a bunch of pictures before you download them to your computer. Order the external card when you buy the camera so it's one less thing that you have to do later, a spare battery too if they sell one. geo

p.s. Duhhh... also be smarter than me and notice the difference between "micro" SD 8 GB Class 6 Flash Memory Card AND non-micro! Amazon was out of the correct one when I was ordering so I continued looking and bought the wrong one without noticing! I've reordered their Transcend 8 GB microSDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card TS8GUSDHC6E ( CLASS '6' understanding it to be the latest generation of speed (video)with excellent ratings too )

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