Comments on: Kodak to launch a 24x ultra zoom with 12 megapixels

By: Gareth Powell

Gareth Powell — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:41:37 +0000

Margaret
That is most kind of you and cheers me up no end.

By: Margaret Hope

Margaret Hope — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:23:36 +0000

Thanks for the plain English explanations. I’m neither dumb nor a techno whiz and appreciate explanations I can relate to – they’re not that easy to come by.

By: Gareth Powell

Gareth Powell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:43:30 +0000

A fair comment. As yet I am not sure of the expertise of the readers. I can write it high tech working on the assumption that readers do understand the complexities of, say, image stabilization. So far I have seen nothing to suggest this.
I am not alarmed at it being called ‘cliche humor’. Most humor is cliched. You can only go original and out on a limb when you know the audience.
The ‘slight air of condescension’ worries me. That accusation has never been made before but even if one reader detects it than it is a warning signal. I will try to do better next time. And yes that sentence is a cliche but it is not condescending and it is true.

By: Edward D.

Edward D. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:53:52 +0000

This review was informative, if slightly “dumbed down”; but maybe I’m misunderstanding cliche humor as a slight air of condescension I disagree with the writer on one point. He claims “the Kodak name is not normally associated with superb imagery”. This is untrue. Kodak is a world-class imaging company and makes some extremely high-end cameras, and tons of top-of-the-line imaging equipment, and has done so for many, many years. The Kodak name has fallen from the top of the heap because of the company’s lack of competitiveness with foreign manufacturers, but it still is a name that garners respect, if not “bragging-rights”. Well, while you are out there bragging to others about the name brand of your over-priced camera, I’ll be out there snapping amazingly beautiful, high-res photos with my Z980, with plenty of money left over for a bunch of matte finish 11×17″ prints!!! Thanks for reading!
Eddie D. (Rochester, NY)