The Kodak EasyShare C875 is an 8-mega pixel camera with a 2.5-inch LCD screen. Imaging Resource has written a review of the C875 and they write: “The Kodak C875 is a relatively pokey performer, powering on and extending its lens fully in about three seconds while showing shutter lag of 0.34 second at the wide-angle lens setting, according to our tests.

If you pre-focus by half-pressing the shutter, the lag will decrease to a much more manageable 0.11 second, which is perfectly fine for basic snapshots of friends, family, and vacation photos.”

“Shot to shot, the Kodak C875 was average for a camera in its class, taking about 2.8 seconds per shot over 20 shots, according to our tests. The camera’s 5x zoom is also quite slow and noisy, which becomes even more evident in movie mode where the whir of the optical zoom can be clearly heard during playback. Though the Kodak C875 has a sports mode, I certainly wouldn’t recommend this camera for anything too intense, though it might work at a kid’s soccer game.”

Image quality in daylight was very good for an entry-level compact model. While the Kodak C875 boasts an 8MP imaging sensor, there’s so much hype about megapixels in digital cameras these days, it’s nice to see one that actually takes advantage of all that resolution. The Kodak C875’s 8MP sensor and all-glass 5x Schneider-Kreuznach optical zoom lens produced great color and fine detail in images I shot in bright afternoon light.

I often take pictures of a converted warehouse in my neighborhood that allows graffiti artists to decorate the exterior with colorful designs. This warehouse — known as 5 Pointz — is a good acid test on how digital cameras interpret dense information. I’m happy to report that the Kodak 875 passed with flying colors. In several shots I took at 5 Pointz I could clearly make out the cracked flecks of peeling paint in my pictures. Sharpness was pretty solid edge-to-edge as well; a good performance for a consumer lens. These images also printed out very nicely on my Canon i9900 at home, maintaining the rich detail and color I saw on screen.”