Neat Christmas Gift Ideas: Kodak “Share”

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Thanks to my involvement in the world of tech journalism, I recently had the chance to spend some time with two new Kodak products — both of which embrace the company’s new philosophy of sharing.

“Share” is a great buzz word for the photo industry, because it’s what most of us are looking to do with our pictures once we take them.  The latest line of Kodak cameras and pocket camcorders has embraced this buzz word, offering up what they like to call the “share button.”

The share button is a button you can press on the back of the camera while you’re browsing through your photos that will let you upload any pictures you want directly to your Facebook, Flickr, email, and more.  Once you’ve selected what you want to share and told it where you want to share it, all you have to do is sync up your camera and it takes care of the nitty gritty for you.  Neat, right?

The camera I had the luxury to play with this on was the M590, and as you can see from the sample pictures I’ve taken here and here, it takes a pretty great shot for being a low-end model, well worth it’s entry level price of $199.

It’s a nice thing to know about if you’re buying someone a camera — but let’s get real — the chances of that are probably slim.  What’s more likely, however, is that you’ll be shopping for a digital picture frame.  This is where the idea of “share” really comes into full swing.

The Kodak Pulse picture frame is quite literally the gift that keeps on giving.  Once you’ve given it, you can continue to update the frame from the comfort of your desk by e-mailing new pictures to it whenever you want!  What better gift for Grandma than a picture frame given in December that gets little league photos in the summer and graduation pictures in the spring?

And since the frame just uses a conventional e-mail address, you can give it out to everyone in the family so that new pictures can arrive from all sorts of familial photographers!  The frame gets bonus points for streaming Facebook photo albums too, should you simply want to stream a particular album belonging to yourself or your friends right out of the box.

You can pick up the Pulse as a 7 inch frame for $129, while the 10 inch is available for $199.  If you were already thinking about getting someone a digital picture frame this Christmas, why not get them one that you can update for them all year round?


6 responses to “Neat Christmas Gift Ideas: Kodak “Share””

  1. Tarynm says:

    What a great gift idea that frame is! I’m sure this is a silly question, but does the frame have to be hooked up to the internet to receive new pics, or is it based on a subscription? My dad isn’t online….

  2. Angie says:

    Dell has the Kodak Pulse frame on sale for $99.99

    http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=A3563150&dgc=SS&cid=38279&lid=1344936

    I purchased one the other week for my Dad.

  3. Jim Squires says:

    Hey Tarynm — sadly, it needs to be connected to the internet. The one downside to this frame is that, without WiFi, it’s pretty much useless. But with WiFi? Outstanding gift! 🙂

  4. Angie says:

    SD cards are so cheap now, you could always fill up the card with photos for your Dad and mail it to him to insert into the Kodak frame. That’s what I’m doing.

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