Photos: Hands-on with the Kodak EasyShare M1063

All British schoolkids know what happened in 1066: some chap called Norman shot Harold Bishop in the eye with an arrow during a European Cup tie at Stamford Bridge. All right, so perhaps we didn't pay much attention in History -- we were too busy trying to reverse-engineer a flux capacitor out of a BBC Micro B+64 and the wheels off a Matchbox KITT. But even we know that nothing of interest happened in 1063. Until today, when the 10.3-megapixel Kodak EasyShare M1063 camera has arrived at Crave. Is it history in the making?

It's a simple, straight-up point-and-shoot. The 3x optical zoom lens has a 35mm-equivalent focal length of 32–96mm, which is above average at the wide end. It packs a 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor, orientation sensor and Kodak's trademark big red share button for printing and the like. Video is recorded at VGA 640×480-pixel resolution at 15fps with sound and on-camera editing.

Face-detection technology joins perfect touch technology, which is designed to capture greater detail in shadows and highlights, without losing clarity elsewhere. Scene modes include the usual portrait, sports and landscape, as well as options such as backlit and candlelit scenes. We'll be testing these features in our forthcoming review.

The first feature to really leap out at us is the large 69mm (2.7-inch) LCD screen. This supports an onscreen keyboard for text photo tagging, allowing you to type in a keyword and then sort your pictures by those tags.

The Kodak EasyShare M1063 is available now for £89. Click through for another innovative feature and some more fun with history! -Rich Trenholm

Update: Read our full Kodak EasyShare M1063 review here.

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