Digital cameras keep on going down in price and you can easily get a great point and shoot digital camera for around $150 these days. With many digital cameras being almost the same, what do you really look for in a camera? The things that I really look at are how many megapixels the camera has, the zoom on the lens, and how big the LCD is. Well today we are looking at a 10-megapixel camera that has a 4x optical zoom and a nice large 3-inch LCD display. The camera I’m talking about is the Kodak EasyShare M420. Geeks.com was nice enough to provide us with the Kodak M420 for review. Geeks.com is a great place to find cheap digital cameras.

General Features
- Color: Black
- CCD total pixels: 10.3 megapixels
- Effective total pixels: 10.0 megapixels (prints up to 30 x 40-inches!)
- Sensor type: 1/2.3-inch CCD
- 3.0-inch wide angle color LCD display
- 4x wide-angle optical zoom
- 5x continuous digital zoom
- Image stabilization
- 64 MB internal memory
- Storage media: Secure Digital/Secure Digital High Capacity (SD/SDHC)
- Smart Capture feature automatically adjusts settings for optimal photos
- HD picture quality for viewing on HDTV or other HD device
- Face detection
- High ISO (up to 6400)
- Text and sound tags
- Multimedia slide show with sound
- Record continuous VGA video (640 x 480) at 30 fps and QVGA video (320 x 240) at 30 fps
- Scene modes and picture enhancing features
- Share button
- Kodak PERFECT TOUCH technology
- Built-in speaker
- PictBridge-enabled

Specifications
- Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon Lens, 28 – 112 mm (35 mm equiv.), f/2.6 – 5.8
- Built-in lens cover
- Shutter speed: 8-1/1000 sec.
- Auto focus type: TTL-AF, selectable
- Auto focus modes: normal, macro, infinity selectable
- ISO sensitivity: auto (Smart Capture) – 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600; manual – 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 (@ 3.1 MP) selectable
- White balance: auto, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, open shade
- Flash range: 0.2 – 4.0m at wide, ISO 400; 0.5 – 1.8 m at tele, ISO 400
- Flash modes: auto, fill, red eye reduction, off
- Burst modes: self-timer (2 sec/10sec, 2 shots), burst 3 shots
- Scene modes: portrait, sport, landscape, close-up, night portrait, night landscape, snow, beach, text/document, fireworks, flower, museum/manner, self-portrait, high-ISO, children, backlight, panning, candlelight, sunset, panorama (right-left), panorama (left-right), blur reduction, program
- File formats: Still image – JPEG/EXIF v2.21, Video – QUICKTIME MOVIE, motion JPEG
- AV output: NTSC/PAL selectable

Still Image Sizes (in Smart Capture mode)
- 10.0 MP (3648 × 2736)—4:3
- 8.9 MP (3648 × 2432)—3:2
- 7.5 MP (3648 × 2064)—16:9
- 5.0 MP (2592 × 1944)—4:3
- 4.5 MP (2592 × 1728)—3:2
- 3.8 MP (2592 × 1456)—16:9
- 3.1 MP (2048 × 1536)—4:3
- 2.8 MP (2048 × 1360)—3:2

Packaging
The M420 comes in a normal retail Kodak camera box, on the back there is an overview of some of the features.

Opening the box up we have the M420 camera, AC / USB power adapter, USB cable, battery, wrist lanyard and user guide.