Digital Home Thoughts: Kodak's EasyShare Z1015 IS is Fast with 15x zoom & 10MP

"Kodak's got a new one for the semi-casual point-and-shoot crowd, the EasyShare Z1015 IS. The 10 megapixel Z-series camera manages a 15x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD, HD footage at 720p and 30 fps, and Kodak's Perfect Touch processing. Naturally the IS implies optical image stabilization, but the 6400 ISO should help out in the shaking department as well if grain is not an issue, and full manual controls should help out all the in-betweens. It'll go for $350 come September."

This really appears to be a nice looking camera, especially if it will sell for around $350. I am thinking that this will be a good competitor to Canon's G series. I only wonder what the manual setting capabilities will be. From what I am reading here and in a couple of other articles I found, it looks like the camera comes with Kodak's smart capture technology, but also exposes a number of 'tweakable settings'. I read that as exposing manual controls on ISO, WB, shutter lag, etc. but that may just be wishful thinking. i will definitely be checking this camera out in September when it is released.