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Summary: Great pictures but night time shots need improvement
Review: I got this camera as a gift. It takes pictures with very rich colors and sharpness if you do the focus right. I am not happy with the night time shots but some have said they will come out good if a tripod is used or the camera remains steady for sometime after taking pictures. Also the well known issue is the battery case cover which is flimsy.I purchased a 256 mb card to store the pictures. Also am pleased with the video mode which comes out fine. All in all a good camera for a first time digital camera buyer.
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Summary: Also takes lenses
Review: I have owned this camera for 6 months now and am quite pleased with it. It is extremely easy to use and you can purchase a 17X close up lens, 2x telephoto, and a wide angle lens. I do a lot of close-up work so the close up lens works great. You can find links to the lenses at Kodak.com.
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Summary: A breeze to operate for anyone over 8
Review: I did a lot of research on cameras and spent a large amount of time at Best Buy and Circuit City looking at this model up close and personal. I have to say that this camera is fantastic! It works well in a variety of light settings and is easy to switch from one setting to another by a simple turn of a knob. I've uploaded all my photos to ofoto.com and have loved the resulsts so much that I've ordered well over 75 pritns including some blown up to 11 x 17, WITH NO PIXELATION! My wife can't believe the framed work was taken with a digital camera. They also print out great on my printer and I only have an hp 880c to work with on a day to day basis. You don't even need to go through the camera manual to be up and running with this little jewel. I started right out of the box and have been working with it ever since for all types of shots. I have no problem with the software and the pictures can be downloaded with ofoto.com free software as well. In fact I use that more so than the Kodak software included. So far, the battery life of the camera is excellent! I use flash and no flash with the screen on quite a bit, and I did ivest in some newere NiMh batteries from kodak. They hold a large charge and work well with this camera. I invested in a 128MB memory card for this camera for only $40.00 bucks from Circuit City. It's well worth it and much better than the any of the smaller cards. I did not buy the Dock due to the ease of downloading with the card reader that came with the 128 mg card. To sum things up, I realy like its ease, and clarity of detail in my pictures. Also, it bounced off the concrete from three feet when I tried to catch my 13 month old son, completely forgeting about my camera. It is still working fine with only a few minor scratches. Enjoy!
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Summary: Camera Dock 6000 makes the Kodak DX6340 much easier to use
Review: My daughter wanted a digital camera for Christmas. She has been using inexpensive film cameras for years. A senior in high school, she is still prone to breaking the camera's battery compartment door after about six months of use a camera and I have to buy her another film camera. The Kodak DX series cameras all have the same type of flimsy battery compartment door. The USB cable to hook the camera to the computer is very tiny and delicate. If you are not gentle with the connector, you could cause damage, rendering the Kodak camera useless. I bought the $280.00 Kodak DX-6340 digital camera for her to use. Since the digital camera is so expensive, I don't want to replace it in six months due to a broken USB connector or a battery compartment door. The Kodak EasyShare Camera Dock 6000 solves both of these problems. There are already a lot of good comments regarding the DX6340 in this forum. I won't repeat what everyone already said. I would say that the best thing about the Kodak DX6340 is its ease of use, but the Kodak Camera Dock 6000 makes the Kodak DX6340 a great camera. It is true you have to buy special rechargeable NIMH batteries to use the Camera Dock 6000. Generic AA sized rechargeable NIMH batteries with a generic battery charger costs less than the Kodak EasyShare Camera Dock 6000, but AA sized rechargeable NIMH batteries cannot be charge inside the DX6340 camera, therefore you would lose the ease of use with that option. There is a brand of NIMH rechargeable battery pack made for the Kodak camera made by DigiPower available for $15.00 (quite reasonable, when you compare that to the cost of proprietary batteries for cell phones and other digital cameras) from Circuit City and other fine photo retailers. Since the Camera Dock 6000 conveniently recharges the battery pack in 3 to 4 hours every time the camera sits in the dock, you never have to open the battery compartment; it would be like charging a cell phone battery. The battery pack should last one or two years before you need to replace the battery. If you want to transfer your picture to the computer, you never have to open another compartment door and connect up a flimsy USB cable to the camera. You connect the same USB cable to the Camera Dock 6000 permanently and forget it. If you want your camera to last a few years, this camera dock goes a long way to extending the life and reliability of any DX series camera. I bought the Kodak Printer Dock 6000 with the DX6340 initially and returned it un-opened after I found the cost of printing at the local Sam's Club a lot cheaper. The Printer Dock 6000 provides the same convenience and provides printing capability at a very steep price. The paper/ink cartridge refill kit costs $25.00 each time and comes with only 40 sheets of single size 4x6 photo paper with exactly enough ink to print 40 photos. That works out to be a costly 63 cents per print. I could get Sam's Club 1 Hour Photo department to print the digital prints for 17 cents a print. Even the local drug store can provide digital prints for half that cost of the Kodak refill kit. So I decided that the Kodak printer supplies are too expensive. The Kodak Camera Dock 6000 on the other hand allows me the same convenience at home to print through a generic photo printer made by Epson, Canon, HP and others at a lower cost using my home computer. However, I'm very lazy when it comes to photo printing and at 17 cents a print from Sam's Club 1 Hour Photo, I don't have to even do the work. Just spend five minutes to put the pictures on a CD and take it over to Sam's Club 1 Hour Photo department. If I want any size other than the single 4x6 size, Sam's Club 1 Hour Photo can do it. Not possible with the Kodak Printer Dock 6000. So, I say the Kodak EasyShare Camera Dock 6000 is definitely a must have option. $80.00 is not a lot to pay for the Camera Dock 6000 to get this level of convenience for the DX series cameras, especially when it makes using the DX6340 similar in ease to using a cell phone. Isn't convenience, the reason for all the cell phones in use today?
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: This camera is so easy to use. Takes great pictures. I didnt give it 5 stars because I believe there is always room for improvment on everything. Kodak provides great customer service for those who can't properly read instructions (like me) and they dont make you feel like a dummy. We compared the pictures from the DX6340 to the Sony mavica(pictures had alot of yellow) and although close Kodak won (true in colors). Kodak DX6340 has so many great features and the software is easy to use. I highly recommend the Kodak Dx6340.
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Summary: Excellent camera!
Review: I got this camera for Christmas, and I am very pleased! At first I didn't think 3.1 MP would be enough, but I printed a few pictures and was amazed at the film-like quality. The different modes, such as portrait, landscape, and close-up, allow for versitility. This camera is extremely easy to use, and I still haven't had to read the manual. Another feature I like is that you can turn the LCD screen on by pushing a button, so it's not on all the time to kill the battery (though that is an option). The video is also impressive; not video-camera quality, but then again it's incredible for a camera! I used it for 4 hours and the battery is still going strong, but I plan on buying a rechargable battery since only a regular one is included. I would definitely encourage you to purchase this digital camera!
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Summary: Puts the "Easy" in EasyShare
Review: I have to say that I love this camera. It has the easiest and most intuitive controls of any digital I've used. The image quality is very good in all modes and with all quality settings (there are four of them), with the auto mode usually doing a great job for normal point-and-shoot stuff. The PAS mode gives you more or less manual controls -- nothing like what you'll find on a real SLR, but very handy nonetheless. If there's one problem with the picture quality, it's that the auto mode tends to darken the foreground or subject ground of a picture based on small amounts of backlight -- the flash against a white wall alone is enough to skew the brightness. Overall, though, it's a rather minor complaint for a camera that works so well -- two seconds in Photoshop or any other editing program will correct any problems. As I said before, the controls are extremely easy. Anyone can use this camera within minutes of picking it up, even the uninitiated or technologically disinclined. It's too bad that this ease and simplicity of use didn't extend to the software, however. Don't get me wrong -- it's certainly easy to use. The problem is that it turns your computer into a Kodak digicam station. I had to remove three Kodak entries from my startup menu, and the next time I rebooted my computer, I still got a Flash tutorial for the software. It would have been very useful if I had been expecting it. Needless to say, the software isn't exactly my sort of thing, though it does make it very quick and easy to transfer and share pictures from your camera. Overall, the DX6340 is a great piece of work. Its high point is its ease of use -- it really cannot be overstated how smooth this camera is to use. Once I get my 256 MB memory card, I'll be in heaven -- imagine, 263 "Best" quality photos or 23 minutes of video, with sound. Oh, I didn't mention it had a full video mode? Great stuff.
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Summary: Annoying switches
Review: Having to click past SIX modes to FINALLY reach the manual (PAS) mode really sucks. Why don't they use USB 2 instead of the extremely slow USB 1 mode to upload the pictures?? Almost every time we go to use the camera in the automatic mode the flash activates!! I wish there was a way to shut the flash off and have it stay off (even when you turn the camera off and back on) until you want to use it. The digital zoom mode is really pathetic as far as photo quality goes. Our Sony Mavica FD-85 (1.2 MP)(2 years old and outdated) takes much cleaner and clearer pictures using the digital zoom. Battery life sucks - We like to keep "Live view" and "Quick View" turned "on" but this will empty the batteries in less than 50 pictures. Sure we could buy the "optional" L Ion re-chargable batteries but the above mentioned Sony came with them at no extra cost. We plan on returning ours to the Mart of Walls for a refund and purchase a Minolta Dimage Z1 instead.
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Summary: Excellent Camera
Review: Excellent camera that takes amazing photos. It's easy to use. I also purchased the printer dock which is great if you want to print 4 x 6 pictures without having to use your printer. Be careful with the memory card. I originally bought the Viking memory card and it didn't work. Stick with Kodak brand. I'm not sure about the Simple Tech memory cards.
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Summary: Love at first Digital Image
Review: I never thought I would ever part with my SLR camera outfit, but I am hooked on digital photography already. I enjoy the crisp and bright digital images on my computer the same day I take them. Having family in another state, this camera allows me to e-mail pictures and share the moments. I use a 256 MB scan disk, so I can take pictures without abandon and just delete what I don't like. Love to be able to view what I've taken immediately on the screen. The scan disk is also compatible with my MP3 player and my palm pilot, which makes this convenient to share between all my toys. Shutter is not as fast as I had hoped and I would probably revert back to my SLR for more control on fast action photos. Alkaline batteries don't cut it! The camera shows a low battery almost immediately upon putting in new ones. I now have the printer dock with the built in charger, which works well for me. My family enjoys the TV plug-in feature that allows me to show the pictures right on the TV like a slide show. The EasyShare printer dock allows you to print 4X6's at home. I purchased this accessory very quickly after getting the camera. This is a fun accessory for the standard "snap shots." I took the dock to my parents house and printed pictures that I had just taken. It reminded them of the old polaroid convenience and the pictures are waterproof, so sticky kids' hands are no problem. See my review on the print dock. I wasn't interested in capturing movies initially, but have now tried a few short film shots. It too is fun for quick captures when just a photo won't do. It captures sound well! Movies will have to be just a minute or two and you would definitely need an extra scandisk for more room. These "movies" can also be e-mailed in a quicktime format. I only give 4 stars as sometimes I feel I am waiting for the camera to catch up with me, but this is a minimal trade off for the fun I am having.
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