Rating: Summary: Great Camera Review: This was my first digital camera purchase. I have been very pleased with the camera. It takes wonderful pictures. I found the software easy to use. I would recommend getting a battery charger. I do not have the camera dock, so I do not know how well the camera works with the dock. I connect the camera to my PC using the USB cable and have not had any problems.
Rating: Summary: Wonderful Camera! Review: At first I didn't know anything about Digital Cameras. My father's company gave him his camera for work. It's the same camera I own now. I love the camera! It has a sharp image and I love the up close feature it comes with (the little flower icon) it's great for taking up close images! I have the Kodak Card reader instead of the loading dock and it works nicely. And the really nice deal is if you get your picture developed they only cost .29 cents per picture at Wal-Mart for the one-hour developing. Great deal! I just can't say enough about this camera! I enjoy it and try to use it whenever I can.
Rating: Summary: Careful Review: This camera takes great photos, especially outside. I had a shot blown up to 8X10, and I could hardly tell that it wasn't a film photo. However, I found the camera fragile, Kodak customer service unfriendly, and the lens cap annoying. A small drop of the camera resulted in massive damage and a $$$ repair bill. The lens cap is annoying because it relies on friction to stay in place, but the smooth surface of the lens mount causes it to fall off all the time, resulting in a dirty lens. Buy the camera, but be careful with it.
Rating: Summary: A Great camera Review: I received this as a Christmas gift this past year and all I can say is WOW!!!!!!!! I took more pictures and short video in two weeks than I had taken in two years with my old 35mm camera. It is a Minolta Maxium 5000, with a 35-85mm lens and a 70-200mm lens. This Kodak is the most like a "real" camera that I have seen in a digital format. The macro mode and the sport modes are great. You can even get great 8x10's at the 2 mp setting. You won't be dissapointed with this camera, but I recomend you get at least a 128 mb secure digital card to go with it and take the pictures in at least to 2 mp mode because with all the pictures you will be taking you will want to print them out. BUYS THIS CAMERA! and you WILL NOT be disapointed. One more thing get a good editing photo software I recomend Picture It Premium or Digital Pro, very user friendy
Rating: Summary: Don't waste money on Docking station Review: I have recently bought this camera. Very easy to use. I am happy that I have not purchased the docking station. According to Kodak, by pressing a button on the docking station you can transfer your pictures to your computer. What I feel is that if you are too lazy to press that damn button on the docking station, just don't buy the docking station. After installing the software just connect your camera to your computer using the USB cable --- the software will automatically sense the camera and you can transfer all your pictures with a mouse-click! As far as charging the battery goes, I guess that you are better of using the non-rechargable CRV3 lithium battery (you will get one of this with the new camera). Just buy a few of them in advance from discount stores --- if you buy them at tourist spots, you can end up paying a lot more. The lithium battery has much longer life, and I don't think that you should worry about how docking station can help you recharge. One more tip --- register your camera and software to extend the standard 12 month warranty to 13 months! I have bought it a month back and paid $$$ + sales tax for the new camera. This price beats what Circuit City or Best Buy offers. Shop online from reliable stores or check out smaller dealers willing to offer a nicer deal. 3 Mega Pixels, 3x optical zoom, user-friendliness, low price and the Kodak connection --- you will surely be happy with this camera!!! Of course, you need to be careful --- don't listen to anyone asking you to waste $$ on the docking station. OK! I don't need to buy any more Kodak films :-)
Rating: Summary: Great Camera!!! Review: I bought this camera for my wife a few months ago and she loves it! Actually, I meant WE love it! I bought it from Dell.com and used a number of stackable coupons plus free shipping. The final price we paid was $...! What's even greater is that it came with the Camera Dock II. So I think I got a pretty good deal, especially since every other local retail store was selling it for $... and $... additional for the camera dock, not to mention the tax. So we saved over $... PROS: Great outdoor vivid colors, Resolution helps make fantastic 10 x 13 prints and perhaps a bit larger, Capable of making low resolution live captures for emailing only, Dock makes transferring images from camera to computer a snap, Dock also recharges batteries. Camera has expandable accessories (sold separately) including a digital smart card, wide angle, telephoto and close up lens. I have not used a lens yet but plan to get a close up lens to shoot my coin and baseball card collection. We plan to purchase a memory card also, but honestly, you don't need one. It can take up to 38 images with its internal memory. CONS: Low illumination shots require a virtually motionless hand or using a tripod. Otherwise the images are not great and look slightly blurry. I use a tripod for this environment and the images are sharp. OVERALL: This is a great camera, especially for the price I paid. Shop around and you too can get a great deal. The performance of the camera thus far is what we expected and more. We love the plug and play features of this camera not to mention the great images we capture. We recommend you try Dell.com but first visit DealCatcher.com for coupon codes.
Rating: Summary: you would love this camera Review: this camera is so easy to use, you don't need to go thru menu after menu, buttons after buttons. I also love the movie functions that i used a lot. the movie picture quality is so-so (sure, it's camera but for bloody sake) but movie picture does look pretty if you plug the camera on TV. Problems: the only problem i have with this camera is the battery life. I am surprised a couple folks said the battery life is not bad, but I think only the CRV battery coming with the camera lasts decent long enough, but other NiMH rechargables aren't last enough. so you may want to carry extra battery. Overall, I still highly recommend this camera with highest rating.
Rating: Summary: Maybe I got a lemon, but... Review: On a recommendation from Consumer Reports, I purchased the DX4330. Most of the time it takes beautiful pictures. BUT- About a month after I bought it (with dock and rechargable batteries,)it started having trouble turning on. Sometimes it just starts to act up and it takes as many as 10-15 turns back and forth of the on switch to get it to go. Sometimes it works fine. Sometimes I miss important pictures because of this. :( Now it's understandable that a camera might have a problem once in a while, so I called Kodak. Here's where I become an angry customer. They were extremely unhelpful, telling me I could send it in for repair, but that the tech who checks the camera would turn it on about 10 times, and if it didnt exhibit the problems I described right then, they'd send it back to me, and Im out the shipping. Now, it has decided to sometimes freeze up and not turn off either. I would send it in to Kodak, but of course, I got it to turn off again. I tried to return the camera to cut my losses, but its been over thirty days. Im screwed. (Not to mention, that in many of my pictures, the subjects are out of focus, and the background crisp and clear. This can happen even when I line up the little red square in the viewfinder right on my kids....)
Rating: Summary: great little camera Review: love it. only one problem- the instructions don't say much about how to email pics. pics are good and clear.
Rating: Summary: BAD Investment.... Review: After only 1 month my camera started to give me troubles: It does not work with the external memory ONLY the internal. DONT BUY IT!!
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