Kodak EasyShare M580 Digital Camera Review
The Software
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The Kodak software makes it extremely easy to transfer and share photos. The software installs automatically the first time you attach the camera to your computer. This EasyShare software allows upload your images to your computer quickly and easily. Prompts are in plain English. For instance, as shown in Figure 10, after the pictures are copied to the computer you are asked if you want to erase the pictures from the camera. So it is easy to understand exactly what you are doing.
Figure 10: A typical software prompt
The Share button on the camera lets you share your photos and or videos with social network site including Facebook, Kodak Gallery, Flickr and YouTube. It also allows you to email your photos to friends. This works quite well. You can choose the photo to send and enter your recipient’s email address right from the camera. The photo will be automatically sent through the Kodak software next time you connect the camera to the computer. There are quite a few options like the ability to personalize your message and/or to compress the images.
The EasyShare software lets you tag, edit, organize and print your photos. As shown in Figure 11, it keeps your photos in albums and gives you easy-to-understand icons for various functions.
Figure 11: The Kodak software