The Kodak Easyshare V570 is interesting for only one reason, its two lenses. While the first lens is somewhat typical, the second lens shows a 23mm equivalent ultra-wide field of view. This is unique among ultra-compact cameras and even very rare in larger fixed-lens digital cameras. The Sony Cybershot DSC-R1, the Kodak Easyshare P880 and the Nikon Coolpix 8400 all have 24mm equivalent zoom lenses, but are all much larger cameras. The ultra-wide angle lens shows significant barrel distortion which can be greatly reduced by in-camera software compensation. Combined with the dual-lenses is an effective in-camera panorama stitching software which can make a 180 degree panorama with only 3 shots of the 23mm lens.

 

As for the rest, the Kodak Easyshare V570 is nothing to be impressed about. This camera produces overly noisy and overly soft images, has very short battery life and has trouble focusing in low-light. Several reviewers also complained about movie-compression used which shows much more compression artifacts than usual. The bottom line is that the V570 is the only ultra-compact camera with an ultra-wide lens. If the ultra-wide lens is not important, the 6 megapixel Fuji Finepix F10 will do much better in terms of image quality, speed of operation, battery life, plus its cheaper.