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Summary: very nice camera - and easy to use
Review: This camera has been perfect for my wife. I wanted to get her into the digital world, and retire her 35mm camera. She began using this camera right away, with very little trouble (she still has trouble understanding the various flash modes, but I'm confident that she'll grasp the basic idea soon). I like the feature that automatically rotates the image when you shoot in portrait mode (holding the camera sideways) so when you review the images they're all oriented correctly. The buttons and dial are very easy for my wife to operate (one of the things she didn't like about my Sony). The only thing I didn't like was that it came with lithium batteries instead of rechargeables. I bought a travel kit (which included a case, rechargeables, and a travel charger) instead of the recharging dock for now. Also, I wish the battery strength indicator was always visible. Over all, my wife is very, very happy with the camera and the resolution is excellent. My wife also loves taking videos, but I have to keep reminding her that it's for "short" video clips - it's not a camcorder!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I just got it today, and this is an awesome camera, got it out of the box, installed really easy told you what you needed flat out. I have had it a few hours and i have taken a ton of pictures, videos and emailed them half way across the country successfully. This is an amzingly easy camera to use. Don't believe me? I'm 15 and I could use it right out of the box. And props to kodak on the index in the back of the instruction manual.
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Summary: Poor indoor results
Review: I have a 3 year old 2MP DX280 that takes much better photos. Indoor shots are dark and blurring is a problem with the DX4530.
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Summary: Great camera, software needs improvement
Review: this camera takes great pictures--amazing details, true bright colors, pictures come out great even in low light settings. My two problems are:
-a 2-second delay between when you push the button and the camera takes the picture (very hard to take a good picture of an active toddler)
-software that came with the camera offers very few editing options, you can only: brighten or darken the shot, crop, make it black and white, and take care of red eyes--that's it. This is strange since this camera is not intended for professionals who already own powerful photo-editing software.
Other than that, I like it and recommend it!
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Summary: Not happy
Review: I purchased the dx4530 after reading review and research. It takes great pictures,if you have good light. In low light and what I would not consider low light the pictures are dark even with the flash. Took pictures at a wedding and all were too dark. You can with the software make them look alitte better but who wants to do that to every picture. It does have a low light setting but you have to hold very still and nothing can move in the picture or it will all be a blurr. I have kids so holding still is not an option for them. Kodak told me to use a tripod and low light setting, but you then have to carry that around. I returned my dx4530 to the store.
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Summary: Best Digital Camera!
Review: The Kodak DX 4530 is the best digital camera that I've had. I started with the 2 megapixel Kodak camera a year ago, which I thought was great. Then I tried a friend's 3 megapixel camera and saw how much clearer the photos were. I looked at Kodak's line of digital cameras and saw the 5 megapixel camera for $299 and the decision was made. This camera took some awesome photos of the Yorkshire Dales in England. Very crisp and clear pictures that had an "alive" quality. I'm now buying this camera for my sister who suffers with a 2 megapixel camera. This camera is a great value, easy to use, and takes great photos.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: We just got this camera, having decided to upgrade from a Kodak
CX4200 that took a swim in a nearby lake (it was submerged completely, but dried out and 4 days later, was working again just fine). I chose the DX4530 because we already had the docking station and because this camera could take videos. We LOVE the videos! Both audio and visual are good. Someone said the videos were blurry, but ours seem crisp enough and don't look blurry at all. The Kodak is a great camera; good-looking video, excellent photos, well made, a snap to use; it feels good in your hand, not like a kid's toy. I'm looking forward to taking it on our next trip. Get extra memory and a battery charger you can plug into the car's cigarette lighter, and you can't go wrong. I simply can't say enough good things about the Kodak cameras I own. We're so pleased with them, and would never hesitate to get another one. The only thing I would change is to add a neck strap - I'm personally just not comfortable with the wrist strap. Otherwise, this camera is A-1 in my book.
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Summary: Great quality for the price.
Review: I purchased this camera before a recent family trip to Disney World. I bought the camera, loaded the software on my laptop and was up and running in less than 2 mins. The docking station is a must for quick transfers of pictures. I am also impressed with the software, as it is super easy to create albums, crop pictures, and order prints (Kodak uses Ofoto- which has been a good service for us). My only complaint (and it is a big one) is taking pictures at night is a pain in the rear. The engineers must have been drunk when they designed the camera, as they put the flashing green light next to the viewfinder -making it virtually impossible to see through the viewfinder at night. It is completely annoying. That being said, the quality of night pictures are good (if your lucky enough to hit your target through the viewfinder). Overall, I am pleased with this little camera.
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Summary: Better deal at Walmart
Review: This one is available for under $300 at your local walmart. No extra memory though.
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Summary: wonderful all-around camera
Review: I bought the Kodak 5 MP camera as an up grade for my HP 320 2MP camera. I notice another person here mention that he was displeased with his Kodak because he couldn't tell the difference between his new 5 MP camera as compared to his old 2MP camera, so he returned it. My experience is the same as his - at first. If I take a picture of my room with both cameras, I cannot tell the difference at all at casual glance simply because the 2MP camera I have does such a wonderful job of normal picture taking. I really recommend people who just want normal pictures and don't want to part with a lot of dough to stick with the 2 MP cameras, because it costs half of what a 5 MP camera costs. However, I must stress that there IS a difference between the picture qualities of the 5MP and the 2MP camera. It is just that the difference isn't that obvious, and you have to look very carefully to see it. The 5 MP camera is definitely better and if you look at its pictures long enough, you will notice it. The main reason I bought this camera is so that I can take close-up pictures of dishes I cook so that I can show off my cooking to friends. Without a doubt, the 5 MP camera takes clearer pictures of close objects, but this is not to say that the 2 MP camera can't do it. It just doesn't do such a good job, but it does do an acceptable job - a friend said the shot of my lasagna with the 2MP camera made her mouth water. The 5 MP cameras don't do a perfect job of it either when compared with the professional pictures I see in cook books, but it is better by about 20%. You have to be picky to see the difference. Overall, the Kodak 5 MP camera has the following major benefits over the HP 2 MP camera: 1. It has a lens cap.
2. It does short little movies.
3. It allows you to delete pictures selectively from within the camera. This is a very nice feature when you go on trips because then you can get rid of messed up pictures and not take up as much memory space. 4. It has a close up option for objects between 2 to 28 inches.
5. It has a night option to allow you to take pictures in the semi-dark.
6. It has a sport option to allow you to take pictures that are moving. (The HP camera does a fine job of taking pictures in a moving vehicle, however.)
7. The LCD screen is clearer and brighter.
8. There is a TV plug-in that allows you to look at the pictures from the camera directly into a TV (I can't imagine why anybody wants to do that, but it is an option)
9. It has an easyshare button to send pictures directly to printers, but I find this option pointless because printing pictures costs a lot (ink and photo paper), so why wouldn't anyone look at the pictures on the computer first and choose the best ones before they try to print it or email it? There is one drawback to the Kodak camera package: the software that comes with it isn't half as powerful as the HP software. My main complaint is that you can't crop a picture completely at will. What's worse, when the picture is cropped, it still just as big as the original one in memory, and even if you shrink it, it is still humongous and slow to send. For example, I have the same picture cropped and shrunk to identical size (about 5 by seven inch) by the two programs. The resulting pictures look identical, but the HP software's picture is 43 kB whereas the Kodak one is 304 kilobytes! When you have a dial-up connection and have a lot of pictures to send like me, you will find the Kodak software very irritating. I can't believe they call themselves "easyshare" when it isn't easy to share at all. The conclusion is that if you are stingy and uncomfortable with dishing out a lot of dough, you are better off with a 2 MP camera. It does an excellent job of point-and-shoot. If you like to have a camera that does everything and you don't want to be caught with a cheap camera, the Kodak one is the way to go. Don't be surprised, however, if you can't tell the difference. A word of warning to those who wants the 2 MP camera: My HP 320 has a very high customer rating at Amazon.com when I bought it six months ago. Since then, however, I notice that HP came out with a newer version of HP320 that Amazon is selling. It costs only half of what I paid, and the customer rating isn't as good either. I cannot speak for that new model, but I can say that my HP 320 takes perfectly clear pictures.
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