Design and FeaturesThe AZ521 is one of the first cameras released under the Kodak brand since the company announced its exit from digital cameras in early 2012. As part of its successful bankruptcy reorganization, the company licensed its brand to Chinese manufacturer JK Imaging: the AZ521, AZ362 ($0.00 at Amazon), and AZ522 are the first new Kodak-branded cameras to hit the U.S. market.
The AZ521 is a bridge camera, meaning its design bridges the gap between a compact camera and a SLR. From a distance, it looks like a shrunken SLR, even with a fake viewfinder bump on top that houses the pop-up flash, but the zoom lens is fixed to the body. For $50 more, you can opt to upgrade to a nearly identical camera that adds an eye-level viewfinder, the Pixpro AZ522. I checked the sharpness of the AZ521 zoom lens using Imatest. Standard PCMag sharpness testing is conducted at the camera’s widest angle and uses a center-weighted method to generate scores. A camera passes the test if it achieves or exceeds 1,800 lines of sharpness per picture height. The AZ521 does just that, scoring 1,932 lines in testingKodak Pixpro AZ521 Camera Battery
The studio space where testing was conducted was too small to test the lens at 52x magnification, but a crop of the Flatiron Building telephoto (below) shows just how blurry the AZ521 is at 52x. The same photo shot with a Fujifilm SL1000 scored 2,773 lines on a sharpness test, which is much sharper—though it should be noted that there’s some chromatic aberration in images captured with the Fuji camera. It can be removed with a few clicks in the software application, but the details that the AZ521 missed can’t be added in that way. Imatest also checks photos for noise, and this is where the AZ521 struggled. At the base ISO 100 setting, it was only able to keep noise below 1.5 percent. I took a close look at its images on a calibrated NEC MultiSync PA271W ($0.00 at Amazon) monitor to see how excessive noise affects image quality.
It’s not a good thing; in our standard ISO test scene, the fine lines of a foreign banknote start to show noise at ISO 400 and disappear completely at ISO 800. The Panasonic FZ200 is a better camera for use in average light; it has an f/2.8 lens and keeps noise under control through ISO 800.
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