Petition to Kodak to unlock JPEG quality settings and more on Z and V series

[turbogaming]

Kodak makes some very nice cameras. Currently their 12mp line of digicams are the only which will take 30fps 720p video. This is going to put Kodak in the hands of consumers who need both features but will be disappointed once they notice the image quality. Kodak cameras also have a number of other nice features while remaining affordable and fitting in your pocket.
Sadly Kodak chooses even to this day to lock the photo quality settings out from their consumer line of cameras. Surprisingly they offer standard quality and high quality settings in their HD video.. yet Kodak is not a video camera company.
Their focus is on still cameras of which they choose to not allow the consumer to choose what quality they would like to save their picture at - be it high quality JPEG, RAW or low quality JPEG. Also their noise reduction causes most detail to be blurred out in many photos. Newspaper print is unreadable, pine needles and grass are blurred into one big blob if not enough contrast exists etc.

Please add your name!
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/kodakpht/petition.html

[ghost]

Kodak makes some very nice cameras. Currently their 12mp line of digicams are the only which will take 30fps 720p video. This is going to put Kodak in the hands of consumers who need both features but will be disappointed once they notice the image quality. Kodak cameras also have a number of other nice features while remaining affordable and fitting in your pocket.
Sadly Kodak chooses even to this day to lock the photo quality settings out from their consumer line of cameras. Surprisingly they offer standard quality and high quality settings in their HD video.. yet Kodak is not a video camera company.
Their focus is on still cameras of which they choose to not allow the consumer to choose what quality they would like to save their picture at - be it high quality JPEG, RAW or low quality JPEG. Also their noise reduction causes most detail to be blurred out in many photos. Newspaper print is unreadable, pine needles and grass are blurred into one big blob if not enough contrast exists etc.

Please add your name!
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/kodakpht/petition.html

really? you are expecting a lot from a consumer grade cam. I like kodak and all, but if you dont like their cams, then dont buy them. sales will go down, and they will improve their design. If they dont, then buy something else. thats what competition is for. if there was no competition i can understand for a petition.

oh, and i cant save as a raw file (a lot of cams cant) but I can change the detail quality in the P ASM menu. I cannot see any artifacts of exsessive noise reduction in my personal photos. good luck!