2026-06-30 Kodak EasyShare Sport C123 Camera

Kodak’s first underwater digital camera—the EasyShare Sport C123—was released January 4^th 2011. It is waterproof to 3 m (10 feet), dust proof and shock proof. It uses 2 AA batteries of any type, available almost everywhere.

If flooded it might be OK

after opening the battery door,

removing SD card and batteries and leaving it open until dry.

The rubber seal located inside the battery compartment door should be checked regularly and particularly before going underwater. Any particles on the seal could cause a leak, so a swipe with a cotton swab is a good idea!

It captures sound while recording movies, but the camera doesn’t play the video with sound (you have to play the video on something else). Originally the “Share” function provided many options with social media, but now all support for that is gone. The camera does have PICTBRIDGE—support for direct coupling camera to printer—features. There are also many built-in intelligent picture corrections.

Criticism of the Kodak EasyShare Sport C123 is quite harsh using terms like—

only suitable for a child
poor results in anything but broad daylight
not adjustable enough
slow between shots

I would like to disagree about how poor the camera is. The initial technical requirements for newspaper photojournalism maintained you had to have—

a 35 mm lens on a 35 mm camera
flash mounted on the camera
at least 30 sec shutter speed
be there

The EasyShare Sport can do all of that. Moreover, it was styled by a New York design company (who were recognized for how fine a job they did). It is basically bulletproof, foolproof and reliable. You can make 30 x 40 inch enlargements from the stills, although the best video it can do is VGA. It was available for $80 list in three colours.

Body type Compact

Max resolution 4000 x 3000

Effective pixels 12 megapixels

Sensor size 1/2.3" (6.17 x 4.55 mm)

Sensor type CCD

ISO Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1250

Focal length (equiv.) 35 mm

Max aperture f/4.5

Fixed Focus 1.3 m to infinity

LCD Fixed

Flash Guide number 6.4 m (range @ ISO 250: 0.3-2.4 m (1 - 7.9 feet)

Screen size 2.4″

Screen dots 112,000

Longest shutter speed 0.5 - 8 sec

Max shutter speed 1/1400 sec

Format Motion JPEG

Storage types SD/SDHC card (32GB), Internal (19 MB)

USB USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec)

Weight (inc. batt.) 175 g (0.39 lb. / 6.17 oz)

Dimensions 147 x 58 x 23 mm (5.79 x 2.28 x 0.91″)

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