Rating: Summary: Wonderful Camera Review: This is my second Kodak digital camera, and like my first, I am not disappointed. Wonderful, crisp, clear pictures. I take a lot of close up pictures of flowers in my garden, and the built in macros is excellent.
Rating: Summary: Awesome Pics and VERY easy to use Review: For the price you pay for this camera, its worth every penny. Its compact enough to store in your pockets when not in use. I own a 1.3 Megapixel camera and yes there is a big difference. No matter what the guy at the electronic store say. This is a must buy.
Rating: Summary: My first review at Amazon Review: I'm suprised that there are a lot of people who liked this camera. I had a Nikon Coolpix 800 (only 2MP) that my daughter dropped and broke so I had to invest in a new digital camera.After looking around this one seemed like a sweet deal. 4MP and it got pretty decent reviews. However, there were a couple scathing reviews from people who had previous experience with digital cameras. I have to say, those people have it right. Most of the good reviews have to be coming from people who are just jumping into the digial world. This Kodak camera is horrible. The pictures were a grainy mess and when compared with my Nikon 2MP pictures the overall colors and quality were less impressive. I've sent this camera back to Amazon, and am going to invest the money to get a camera with a higher quality lens.
Rating: Summary: Very easy to understand and use Review: In this day of high tech gizmos and gadgets, many items are complicated to the point to where the consumer must have an engineering degree in order to understand. NOT so with this camera!!! This is the most user friendly camera I have ever had the pleasure to handle. Before investing this kind of money into something as high tech as a digital camera, I looked at several brands over many weeks. I selected the Kodak DX4900 for it's simplicity of use and ease of understanding the easy to read manual. I can now say that after over 1000 pictures taken at all levels of megapixels that this camera lives up to the advertisements by Kodak and more. You can't go wrong with this one at all.
Rating: Summary: Hoowee! This is great! Review: Well, if I were to write a one word review on this baby, I would just say, "WOW!", but it wouldn't do any justice to this little gem of a camera. I just started fiddling with digital cameras fairly recently (in the last 6 months) and after getting a ZR45MC camcorder/camera, I longed for a better camera that can do some excellent digital stills. After reviewing all the digital cameras available in the market that can do some excellent photos, PLUS is reasonably priced (this one is the cheapest 4-megapixel camera in the market), I ended up getting this camera, and I'm sooo glad I got this! Even for someone who doesn't know much about photography (like me) this camera can take some excellent photos without much tweaking at all. I've yet to learn the more advanced features it has like exposure settings, sharpness, ISO settings, shutter speed, closeups/distant focusing, and a number of others, but I'm already taking some pretty good photographs even without all the tweaking. I can only imagine how much better my photos will look IF I master this camera! Also, if you have a very good photo printer (I have an HP Photosmart 1315), you can just directly take out the compactflash card out of the Kodak DX4900 and insert it in the HP Photosmart printer's card reader, and out comes an EXCELLENT, photolab-quality photo! A friend of mine wouldn't believe that I did all these myself and thought I had it professionally done at a photo store like Ritz Camera. Overall, I would recommend this camera to anyone who wants some excellent photos but doesn't want to do any major tweaking just to get great-looking shots. I HIGHLY recommend this one!
Rating: Summary: Resolution great, camera not durable Review: Extremely happy with the pictures the camera takes and the bells and whistles on it. Easy to use and with the great resolution, you can crop unwanted stuff out of your pictures. Unhappy with the cheap plastic feel, even unhappier when the little plastic battery slide broke off so the camera can't stay powered. Kodak promised to fix it without any arguments, but it needs better workmanship, maybe metal parts instead of plastic? I'll be treating it to a well padded camera case when I get it back!
Rating: Summary: An almost perfect choice. Review: I spent a few days looking at cameras. I went to Circuit City and played them all (in our small city, that's the only choice). I wanted a camera that with lots of picture density (megapix), easy to use, and had some extra features. Most of all, I wanted a camera that my mother could use. This camera ended up being the one that was feature-rich and easy to use. I've had many of the pictures I made printed on photo paper, and came out perfect. The only thing that makes this not perfect, is that YOU NEED TO buy the dock seperate, and YOU NEED the dock in order to have recharging batteries in it. Buy this camera! I gave this a 4, because the dock is seperate, but it's a fantastic choice.
Rating: Summary: The best deal for the price Review: I have been a digital photography early adopter, and this is my fifth digital camera. I owned two Olympus, one Sony Mavica, and one Kodak before this one. When I received the DX4900 I was somewhat disappointed for its lightweight and plastic case but I have to admit that this is the best combination of features and capabilities for under 400 bucks. At this time (July 11th) you hardly would find any 4MP camera for under $500, and Kodak just do it with this gem. Very easy to use, and yet plenty of settings to tweak if you are like me. I love the ISO setting and the exposure, just to mention two. My only complaint come for the 2X optical Zoom. If you are looking a camera for remote photography, maybe you should look for some Mavica models which delivers up to 20X. The Kodak DX4900 speed is quite good (compared to an eternity in any Mavica), and the image quality, after some fine tuning, is great. The software included is a good start kit, but you may better consider some professional or semi-professional image editor instead. And you absolutly will need more memory! 16MB is simply not enough. Consider at least an additional 64MB CF card. I think this camera will be with me for a long long time!
Rating: Summary: Best of 2 worlds Review: I recently bought this camera after postponing a digital camera purchase for a long time -- I just didn't find what I thought I'd want before at a price I could afford. The stated combination of features and cost grabbed my attention. It is a great combination of satisfying picture, options to fiddle with and ease of use for this middle-aged, amatuer-plus-a-little 35mm user but new digital camera user who wants more than just a "fun" camera.
Rating: Summary: great camera except be aware of.... Review: I love the camera. Just watch out with photo transfering. The photos get transfered to both the photo transfer software as well as the Kodak pictures folder on your desktop. That's fine. However, if you delete the pictures from your photo transfer software, they are also deleted from the folder and lost forever. The solution is to either transfer the pics to another folder or when starting up the transfer software, press and hold control, alt and shift...it will then delete the pics only within the transfer software. Otherwise, no complaints at all and would recommend wholeheartedly!
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