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Concord 6340z |
More Megapixels, More Control
Online Retail Price: $229.99
Housed in a stylish metal body for the ultimate in design sophistication, the Concord 6340z is compact in size and rich in features. The camera is equipped with a 6.1 Megapixel CCD sensor that produces high-resolution images of 2848 x 2136 recorded pixels. It has an extremely high-resolution 130K pixel 1.5″ LTPS (low temperature poly-silicon) color LCD that makes framing and viewing easy indoors and outdoors. The Concord 6340z also offers a total 12X zoom capability (3X optical/4X digital), a macro mode that takes close-up shots as close as 5cm/1.9″ and a video mode that takes continuous TV quality MPEG-4 movie with sound up to 15 frames per second.
The 1.5-inch LCD is small and looks grainy, and the information icons are tiny and difficult to see. LCD brightness adjustments are limited to “lighter” or “darker.” There are few buttons, so it isn’t too difficult to decipher your options, but the menus use a serif font that’s more difficult to read than the sans serif fonts used by most camera manufacturers.
The 6340z’s mode dial offers three options: Movie mode, Auto mode, and A/S/M (Advanced) mode, which lets you select Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, or Manual exposure mode via a menu. There are no scene modes for portraits, sports, or landscapes, as you will find on almost any other digital camera. The manual modes would be useful if the LCD would accurately reflect changes to shutter speed and aperture, but it doesn’t. And there’s no indicator to tell you if your exposure is correct, so using the manual controls is hit or miss.
Main Features:
- 6.1 MEGAPIXEL SENSOR
- 12X ZOOM
- 1.5″ LTPS COLOR LCD
- 16MB INTERNAL MEMORY
- MPEG-4 MOVIE WITH SOUND
- SD CARD SLOT
- SLEEK METAL BODY
Key Specifications
Camera body: Metal
Image Resolution: 2848 x 2136 (6.0MP), 2048 x 1536 (3.1 MP), 1408 x 1056 (1.4 MP), 640×480 (VGA)
Lens: 7.7 - 23.1mm (equivalent to 37 - 111 mm in 35mm format)
Zoom: Optical: 3x in 6 steps
Flash Range: 3 m (9.75 ft) in wide, 2 m (6.5 ft) in tele
Storage Type: Internal memory and SD card up to 512MB
USB: Yes, USB1.1, Compliance with USB 2.0
Video out: Yes
Dimensions: 101 x 34 x 56 mm (3.9″ x 1.3″ x 2.2″ without lens barrel and TFT display protrusions
Battery: 3.7v Li-ion Rechargeable battery