还记得第一个宝丽来相机吗?在那之前,there was no real way to know how your pictures came out until you got them developed. Sure, they were a little on the bulky side and the pictures had to be left to develop for a minute or two before you could see the full exposure, but the Polaroid was really a cutting-edge camera when it first hit the market. For the first time, people were able to get an instant result when it came to their pictures. It made sharing photos with friends easy, and in many ways set the precedent for the way we think about photo technology today.
Most smartphones have cameras built right into them, and with dozens of photo sharing websites, it’s hard not to want show off the photos you take when you’re on the go. Every smartphone has enough memory to contain a few albums worth of high-quality photos, and is fast enough to email, upload or text those files to anyone in the country. Much like the first Polaroid was, the prospect of sharing digital images is still really exciting.
However, sometimes a digital photo doesn’t feel quite the same as a glossy print once did. You can view them any time you want, and they are still as crystal clear as the moment you took them, but for those who miss the days of traditional photography it still misses the mark in some way. Technology typically doesn’t go backward, and that also applies to photography, but sometimes it does borrow ideas from the past to improve upon current gadgets.
Like their earlier analog ancestors, some digital cameras are now being released with printers built right into the body. That’s right. You can shoot, edit and print photos all on one camera for an exciting union of new technology and nostalgia. There are more and more of these products appearing on the market and some are really impressive, while others are still trying to catch up.
In this review we’re going to be taking a look at the newly released柯达迷你射击Wireless 2 in 1 Instant Print Digital Camera and Printer. The Kodak Mini Shot is a beginner’s camera at an affordable price point that lets you shoot and print photos just like an old Polaroid. The big difference is that it’s totally digital. We’re going to be looking at the design, features, image quality as well as any downsides the camera has, to give you a full breakdown of whether or not this camera is here to stay.
Design
乍一看，柯达迷你镜头对几乎任何使用相机的人看起来都非常直观。在正面，您会发现镜头，一个小型内置闪光灯以及柯达徽标，在右侧，您会找到印刷插槽。顶部也很简单，带有明显的电源按钮和明亮的橙色快门按钮。
的back of the camera has a 1.7 inch LCD viewfinder, as well as some menu buttons. You’ll find a menu button, two buttons for scrolling, as well as a print button. There’s also a built-in USB port for charging.
整个相机大约是智能手机的大小，尺寸为3 x 5.2 x 9英寸，重8.4盎司。另外，如果您想知道其他颜色，那么柯达迷你镜头确实有黑色，白色和黄色。
就设计和布局而言，我们认为柯达迷你镜头是基本和简单的，但这肯定不是一件坏事。马上，我们觉得直观的，剥离的设计将使使用该摄像头的快照使您陷入困境。
Wireless Capabilities
Even though the Kodak Mini Shot is an all in one camera, it can still connect to smartphones and tablets. It’s Bluetooth compatible, mainly to allow for the editing of photos from your smartphone via the free Kodak app. It would have been nice for this to be more of an on-board feature, but considering that most expensive DSLR’s don’t even do this, we couldn’t be too picky.
我们确实发现有用的一件事是蓝牙连接双向运行。您不仅可以将照片发送到智能手机或平板电脑，还可以将照片发送到相机以打印。我们认为这是一个很好的补充，因为它可以在任何地方分享照片的纸质副本，即使您保存在手机上。
Power and Charging
的柯达迷你射击contains a 620 mAh lithium battery that’s completely rechargeable via a micro USB cable. It takes about 1.5 hours to fully charge, and will yield about 20 photos. We weren’t particularly impressed by the battery life, mainly because we felt that an on-the-go camera like this one should be able to last a little bit longer. Furthermore, you could theoretically take twenty photos and only want to keep a few of them, leaving you with a drained battery and no way to take more pictures.
Granted, it only takes 1.5 hours to charge the camera back up again, but you’ll have to stop somewhere which, if you’re on vacation or with friends, can be a little bit of a damper on your good time. That being said, the ability to wirelessly print photos from your smartphone to the camera’s printer. This means that you could use your smartphone’s camera as a backup and print from the Kodak Mini Shot later—if you found yourself with a really dynamite photo opportunity.
Printing
Printing from the Mini Shot really could not be any simpler. All you have to do is take your photo, select it using the camera’s menu buttons and the press print. That’s it. It’ll take about 50 seconds for each photo to print and you’ll get an image that is 2.1 x 3.4 inches, about the size of a credit card.
Considering that Kodak fitted this camera with its patented 4Pass printing technology that significantly enhances image quality, this is a pretty fast print speed. 4Pass printing technology refers to something called dye-sublimation that uses a heat transfer process to evenly distribute a range of colors. In fact, the Mini Shot’s printer is capable of producing 256 levels per color, or a total of 1.67 million colors.
这样可以确保您的印刷品看起来尽可能靠近原始照片。如果这还不够，相机还将每张照片涂有保护层，以确保它不会随着时间的流逝而褪色。您也可以从Kodak应用程序打印，只要您将启用蓝牙的手机或平板电脑连接到相机。
的App
柯达应用程序非常易于使用。它可以在App Store和Google Play上提供，并使您在打印照片之前可以编辑，自定义或更改照片。它甚至具有内置的模板裁剪工具，过滤器，贴纸和边界，以给您的照片添加一些额外的东西。考虑到这不是专业的相机，因此在昂贵的照片编辑软件上编辑照片可能有些不知所措。该应用程序是初学者的合适速度，但仍然充满了足够的功能，可以充分编辑您的喜好。
照片质量
的柯达迷你射击is capable of shooting in up to 10 megapixels and is equipped with full autofocus, auto-exposure, white balance and gamma color control. These features certainly improved image quality drastically and took out some of the guesswork that new photographers may find themselves doing. 10 megapixels isn’t particularly dazzling, but for a camera that is designed to take photos the size of a credit card, it was more than enough.
的only reason one might want a higher resolution would be if they were planning on heavily editing, or blowing up the photos they take with it, but in that instance, they’d need something more heavy duty anyway. This is not the camera for a professional photographer but for the average person looking for something with appropriate resolution for what it produces. The details of each photo come out sharp, with mostly excellent, vibrant and well-saturated colors. The result wasn’t exactly what we saw in the LCD viewfinder, but in a side-by-side comparison, were close enough.
Drawbacks
的柯达迷你射击is a great camera – no question there. However it does have a few minor flaws, even for the amateur. First and foremost, the LCD viewfinder may be considered too small. 1.7 inches isn’t nearly large enough to give you a good idea of how your shot looks.
如果相机装有大量的按钮或开关，使得无法在较大的取景器中构建，我们会理解，但是它的背面充满了空空间！柯达可以轻松地使取景器大几英寸，从而使您更清楚地了解所拍摄的内容。在某些时候使用它的事实很小。
我们也希望它能提高能源效率。像其他一些柯达产品一样，电池似乎持续不够长。二十张照片后，您必须为其充电。考虑到印刷墨盒最多可容纳50张纸，这似乎还不够。当然，您可以将智能手机用作备份，并在连接到电源后以后打印，但是如果您想在旅途中分享照片，那么较差的电池寿命可能会带来问题。
最后的想法
总体而言，柯达迷你射击真的很漂亮且易于使用。它产生了一些出色的照片，并且由于免费的柯达应用程序，在自定义图像时变得更加方便。除了一些小型设计缺陷外，我们认为来自柯达的新版本让人联想到旧的宝丽来，同时也无缝整合了当今的技术。
对于专业摄影师来说，这绝对不是相机，但具有令人印象深刻的功能，而且价格也很便宜。如果您正在寻找独特的2合1摄像头和打印机，可以随身携带，前往海滩或度假，您可能需要给它一个机会。
它会通过微型USB充电吗？如果是这样，也许可以插入电源库以在旅途中充电/使用？