Odd choice for the name, since Kodak also has a color negative film called "Ektar" [0] which is just a single transposition away from this new phone's name.
Kodak Ektra
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#42wait, this is a DSLR? Why would they do that instead of mirrorless?
There is no viewfinder. It is mirrorless.
They do, however, mention DSLR multiple times in their presentation. Probably just to get the product associated with the image quality that people expect from DSLRs, but it is a bit confusing.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a continuation of scene. I think they were attempting a panorama where half was "before" and half was after, but the subject and feel of each side of the pano is just so different, that it hardly has a comparison effect! For a true before/after, see these images: http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/before.jpg http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/after.jpg
Eww that looks like the kind of thing you find in reddit's shitty HDR sub.
It's not bad tone mapping, which is what most people think of when they think of shitty HDR. It's sharpening and increasing local contrast. This particular effect can also be created in Lightroom by pushing the "clarity" slider too far to the right.
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#44Odd choice for the name, since Kodak also has a color negative film called "Ektar" [0] which is just a single transposition away from this new phone's name. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ektar
How's it odd? It looks like they've already repurposed Ektar once before. Ektra sounds better (to me, anyway) and there's no chance that film purchasers will be confused.
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#45Odd choice for the name, since Kodak also has a color negative film called "Ektar" [0] which is just a single transposition away from this new phone's name. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ektar
I'd call it apt rather than odd.
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#46The only thing i can remember about Kodak phones is that The Verge tried the first Kodak phone last year at CES 2015 and it was a disaster.
It had a horrible Android skin on that made it look like old Nokia phones
Hope they upped their game with this one.
1st Kodak phone at CES 2015 http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7498999/ces-2015-kodak-phon...
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a continuation of scene. I think they were attempting a panorama where half was "before" and half was after, but the subject and feel of each side of the pano is just so different, that it hardly has a comparison effect! For a true before/after, see these images: http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/before.jpg http://kp.kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/after.jpg
Eww that looks like the kind of thing you find in reddit's shitty HDR sub.
Yeah, it's completely backwards. I thought we were past Instagram filters, but now Kodak is trying to build it into their camera?
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#48While it may seem an irrelevant detail, the camera-like leatherette case that flips or snaps open like the old camera cases did, not only made me smile but gave me hope that they were clued in enough to their market as to make it a success.
To me it's a huge drawback and makes it a no buy. No way I'm going to vote with my money and award them for using inefficient, unrecycled, inferior material instead of abundant recyclable non-animal sourced material.
Edit: Thanks for the flags and downvotes, hate is so fresh here.
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#49I think they are doing the right thing. Taking pictures is a core feature of smartphone usage and smartphones took a lot of camera-marketshare. Vacations have become much more enjoyable since people don't have to carry the international sign of gullibility around their neck, the tourist's camera, that also weighs more than a phone, costs at least as much and has a terrible OS.
I too think though that Kodak can't be superior on smartphone stuff. At least not on their first iterations. But having the stomach to pursue such a dramatic and pragmatic shift in as how to perceive their product says a lot. Either about the company's future prospects or of how much they are on their last legs.
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#50It had better have superior photog specs than the newest iphones otherwise it's dead in the water