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The Kodak Pixpro AZ652 Digital Camera: REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
Kodak's always been a great brand in the photography world, but its cameras haven't been its strong point. Until now. The Kodak Pixpro AZ652 Digital Camera turns out to be a terrific device, able to record crystal clear 1080p HD video and crisp photographs with its 20MP CMOS sensor and 35mm-1560mm zoom lens. Yes, you read that right; it's quite a zoom, as demonstrated in this detailed review. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ puts the Kodak Pixpro AZ652 through its paces, showing off a wide variety of different features and capabilities of this impressive digital camera. Heads up! Kodak set up a promo code for all you savvy viewers: Use "DaveTaylor10" for a sweet 10% off at https://store.mypixpro.com/ for your gear. This applies to the AZ652 as well as any other cameras or accessories you acquire!
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this digital camera is bound to impress
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you let's have a look Dave Taylor here
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this time I'm looking at a camera a
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digital camera this is the kodak pixpro
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AZ 6 5 2 and notice I said digital
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camera I didn't say DSLR it doesn't have
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interchangeable lenses but the lens that
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comes with is a crazy zoom lens it goes
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from 24 millimeters to 1560 millimeters
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now that's a lot so let's see what that
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looks like this first photo is me taking
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a shot of the mountains here in Colorado
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at the widest angle possible setting now
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without moving at all I'm gonna zoom in
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as much as I possibly can and this
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second photo is actually at the full 15
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hundred and 60 millimeters that is a
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whole lot of zoom you got to admit
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that's pretty impressive
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now the lens when you do it obviously
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the zoom comes out and on the top there
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are markings that give you a sense of
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the focal length the way this works is
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there's a 65 X optical zoom and a 4x
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digital zoom so together they combine to
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give you effectively 260 X zoom that is
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pretty crazy pretty nice too has an
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electric viewfinder or a sorry
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electronic viewfinder so as you can see
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maybe I'll zoom out a little bit you
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have the 3 inch LCD screen on the back
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then that's very nice but here's what's
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really nice is if you prefer to shoot
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old-style like this you can switch and
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then you have a tiny screen inside the
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viewfinder that gives you all the same
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information and it makes it very easy
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for you to work with and focus as you
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want but that LCD screen has more tricks
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up its sleeve too because you can flip
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it out and you could even turn it around
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so I could shoot like this if I want or
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of course I can do these selfie mode and
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now you can see the camera I'm using for
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this video all very nice very easy the
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sensor inside of this
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is a 20 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor so
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that gives you a huge color range and it
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gives you a lot of bright vivid colors
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you can shoot in JPEG and RAW mode if
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you prefer to use raw and work in
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something like Photoshop cameras got you
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covered I actually preferred to shooting
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in JPEG so you set what you like and you
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are good to go it also does video in
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fact let's go and look at the top here
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you can see that you have the standard
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set of options so you have manual
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aperture priority shutter priority
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program and you have the fully automatic
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I often shoot in fully automatic the az6
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5 2 also has a lot of scene selection
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modes so it has presets for macro and
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for flowers and for sunsets and for soft
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portraits and stuff it's pretty fun to
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play with those and see how they work
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but honestly you can just leave it in
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fully automatic mode and you're pretty
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much good to go if you prefer to do your
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own focusing however on the side you can
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switch between a fully automatic zoom
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autofocus or what they call smart focus
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or a fully manual focus whatever you
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prefer now let's go back to video
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because when you switch it to video mode
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you can get 1080p full HD video but only
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at 30 frames a second so it's not 60
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frames a second at that if you want 60
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frames a second jump down to 720 and
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still going to look really gorgeous on
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your television but let me not talk
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about it let me show you so this is an
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example of me shooting of 1080p and as
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you can see it's crystal-clear came out
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very well and that's handheld so how do
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I put it on a tripod it would have been
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a little bit more stable now that's
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worth mentioning is that when you zoom
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way out just like any other super long
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focal length you're really gonna want to
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have a tripod or something to have it be
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stable because it's really hard when
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you're zooming in it like over a
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thousand millimeters to hold a lens
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without getting some sort of play which
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then of course because you're so zoomed
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in becomes a very dramatic move so
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that's something to know now on the
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video side the only critters
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that I have or maybe the big criticism I
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have is that there's no external
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microphone jack now that's pretty common
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on a lot of these sort of cameras so
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that they have a dual microphone on the
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very top and it works pretty well you
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could hear the stream certainly well
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enough but I wish they would have had a
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little plug for the microphone that'd be
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a nice additional feature now it runs
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off a thousand of twenty milliamp hour
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battery gives you about four hundred
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shots but here is easily and by far the
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coolest thing about this Kodak camera is
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that on the side there's a little thing
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you pop off and it's a micro USB
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connection to charge it thank you thank
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you thank you
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I have Nikon's I have canons and they
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all have a big battery you take out you
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put into a gizmo you plug that into the
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wall and what happens you don't have the
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charger when you need to charge your
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camera so that's a huge pain and the
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fact that this works off micro USB is
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such a win now the other plug you saw
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there just in that fleeting shot there
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was actually an HDMI out so it's a it's
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a compact HDMI it's a special cable but
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you can plug this straight into a
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television and you can look at all the
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pictures that way pretty cool but the
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Wi-Fi is way more cool because on Wi-Fi
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mode you can not only get all your
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photos and download them up to your
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Android or your iOS or your iPad or
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whatever did you want but you can
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actually control the camera so here I'm
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actually trying to take a stealthy shot
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of my cat without being in the room and
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you can see I have access to all the
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controls including I could actually have
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zoomed in further which wouldn't have
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worked in this case but really really
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interesting set of features now what
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else can I tell you about this camera it
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just it's just a lot more than I can
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really cover in this video but I will
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say it's nice and light it's just over a
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pound its 1.3 pounds which makes it
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really easy to work with even one-handed
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there's not much fatigue a lot of DSLRs
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tend to be really heavy and that's
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something where you know if you're
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holding it like this maybe it's not so
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bad but you want to do a one-handed shot
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or just have it sitting around your neck
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while you're on some too
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expedition or something that gets very
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fatiguing so this is nice and light for
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all of its features that I definitely
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appreciate and let's see I think that's
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pretty much all I want to cover it does
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have a built-in flash but I would
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definitely be trying an external flash
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of some sort and since this doesn't have
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a hot shoe if I was to use an external
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flash then I'd be using one that synced
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off of its flash that's up to you
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it also does pretty good in low-light so
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that's something you could experiment
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with I use this outdoors I do a lot of
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wildlife photography so I love the big
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zoom because it lets me really get in
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close on whatever my subject is really
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really appreciate that now the camera
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does come with lens cap and little the
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lens cap strap and this strap but that's
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all you get so you will probably need to
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go pick up a little camera case for
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yourself I found a nice one for about 25
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bucks really easy and why you're getting
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other stuff camera comes with a nice
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bunch of stuff but it doesn't come with
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a full manual so you'll want to go
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online and you'll want to download the
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full Kodak pixpro az6 5-2 manual it's
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some couple of hundred pages PDF it's
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free to download read it it will give
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you so much more information and you'll
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become so much more smart and
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sophisticated about how to use this
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camera that it is absolutely worth the
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time so with that there's not much else
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I can say other than hold on click that
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subscribe button really appreciate if
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you can subscribe to my channel thank
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you now the only thing we haven't talked
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about is the price so this Kodak pixpro
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az6 5 to digital camera will run you
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three hundred and forty nine dollars and
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ninety nine cents at amazon.com now that
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might sound expensive but if you're
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looking for a camera that can give you
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really good results that's actually
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remarkably inexpensive if you want to
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look for something with similar features
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from someone like Canon or Nikon you're
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gonna probably put a one in front of
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that number they are very expensive
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cameras this one gives you a lot of
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great features it has a nice lens a
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really good sensor system and
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been having a lot of fun with it so I'm
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really a fan this is like I said the
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kodak pixpro AZ 652 I'm Dave Taylor I'm
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gonna go off on another shoot and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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