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Summary: This is a terrific camera!
Review: My first introduction into digital photography was with the low end Olympus camera. When I made the decision to upgrade I did alot of research and came to the conclusion that there were several good options for quality digital cameras in the $400 price range. After reading many reviews and speaking to many people who were familiar with both the Sony, Canon, and Kodak I opted for the Kodak 4900. I am extrememly pleased with my decision and love this camera and its' docking station (a must).I just returned from a three week European vacation and had such a blast taking pictures, deleting those I did not like, retaking the picture with different settings, etc. This camera has alot of flexibility but is so very easy to use. After spending 30 minutes reading the instruction book I was good-to-go. One of the things that amazed me with this camera is what good pictures it took in low light conditions. All I had to do was make an adjustment to the light conditions on the camera; I was able to take great pictures up on the bright snowy alps as well as pictures of a lit up castle on a hill at dusk. I agree with a previous review on the Kodak editing software that came with my camera. I do not like it and have opted to use PhotoSuite software to fine tune my pictures. I upgrated the memory to 128MB and purchased 2 sets of rechargeable double AA batteries and a charger (for $20). With the docking station the rechargeabe batteries aren't really even necessary but they came in handy during my vacation. One last comment, I watched the sales ads. Best Buy had the camera on sale for $349.00 I took the ad to Circuit City and they matched the price-as well as threw in 2 packs of photo software.
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Summary: Great Camera!!!
Review: I'm a novice with cameras, but I knew I wanted a digital. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy this one was to operate and how many features it had!
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Summary: My first digital camera
Review: I researched the digital camera market for 4 months. The Kodak
was the best value for the money at 4MP. I got 25% off at Sears
which made the value better. I recently bought the telephoto
and lens adapter through Kodak. The telephoto was [price]. Pretty good deal. The Easy Dock is great for loading pictures and E-mail to family
and friends. It is a great toy to experiment and have fun. Patrick
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Summary: Great camera !
Review: After watching the digital camera market and its products for quite some time, I've finally arrived and purchased my first one. I am very pleased with my purchase. The camera is easy to use. The bells and whistles are intuitive. My spouse is not a gadgetry person by any means but was able to use the camera in no time. The images are simply astounding at the 4.0MP resolution! Don't listen to the negative review in this list of reviews--you'll like this camera unless you're nearly a pro.
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Summary: Awesome pictures!
Review: This camera takes flawless photographs at almost any distance, and at almost any light. There are lower resolution modes and also a high-compression mode, but this does degrade the quality of the image (perhaps the reason for some of the unfavorable reviews?). Also, Kodak has some extra lenses available, one of them being a 2x zoom lense (I've ordered it, but it's still in the mail), which I am hoping will give me 1x to 4x zoom, which is actually BETTER than the 3x zoom you get on most digital cameras. They also have a close-up lense for taking pictures of things like stamps if you are interested in that sort of thing. The downside is that you don't get a camera bag, and the 16MB memory card is too small. I think the 64MB memory card is perfect for me, but then I have a laptop that I can take with me and dump the pictures onto when the card gets full. The camera also comes with a lithium battery, so you still need to buy either a charger or a cradle (both come with one rechargable battery pack). Buy an extra battery pack so you don't get caught without juice! The lithium battery packs last only about twice as long as a charged battery pack, but they cost more ..., so definitely go rechargable! Even without accessories, however, this is a great camera, and you can't get this kind of resolution for this price anywhere else. I've taken some absolutely breathtaking nature photographs after having the camera for only a few days. The automatic shutter speed is great for evening and low light situations, and I haven't even tried some of the cooler features of the camera yet. One more thing - think about investing in some photo-editing software. The camera takes great base pictures, but they still need to be brightness, contrast, and color adjusted. And cropped. And retouched. I like the ULead stuff myself, because it is [reasonably priced] and powerful. But there are a number of very good tools available for less than [money], and you can really spruce up your favorite photos pretty quickly and easily with the right software. In my opinion, it is the ability to edit the photos that MAKES digital photography so powerful, and the higher resolution you go in with, the better the end result. Although Kodak provides some image editing software with the camera, it was really pretty poor. I definitely recommend getting something better (though you may not need it at first depending on what you want to do, and your level of experience). Great camera, great pictures, great price. Plan on spending at least another [money] on accessories (battery charger or cradle, memory card update, camera bag, optional add-on lenses), and maybe [money] on software if you don't already have a favorite image editing tool. Once you have it all in place though, you get to take as many high-resolution photos as you want to for almost free! And I am telling you, I was just blown away at how some of my photos came out. Breathtaking!
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Summary: Good easy to use camera
Review: Someone else complained about some features of this camera and they just aren't true. While it is difficult to see the LCD in sunlight, it's like that on all cameras. And this does have a video out. Images are 35MM quality and it doesn't take 13 seconds to write to the disk. While it does only have 2x zoom and no mpg mode, it does what I bought it for: to take pictures. And if you already have a charger for batteries the docking station is not essential. Overall this is a great camera that takes great pictures and is very easy to use.
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Summary: ... plastic junk ... beware..... MP's isn't everything !
Review: Here's the reasons why I call this a ... plastic junk,
1. The 4 MP doesn't give enough picture quality. 4MP is just a marketing thing, its actual quality is more like 2MP.
2. Visible purple fringing/ chromatic aberrations.
3. LCD monitor is not good, tough to see anything on in sunlight. Using a cheapish LCD helps drive profit margins higher for Kodak on this.
4. Unacceptable time lag when veiewing on LCD.
5. Takes more than 13 secs to write anything on the CF card. Even my last year's Fuji was much better than this !
6. Poor viewing capabilites.
7. You need to spend lots of extra money to get its dock. Why doesn't Kodak sell it along with camera itself ? After all it hardly worth 15 bucks !
8. Missing features like movie/audio, Video out, atleast some manual controls etc. or atleast a 3x optical zoom
I have compared this camera to other Canon/Sony ones and find this way below on quality/features compared to them. I see that many people here have a 5 star review for this, but then maybe its their first experience with a digicam. Kodak needs to improve the quality of their products and stop making such shabby cameras. Buy a Canon S200 or S330 or A40 and you will be much more happy. They have much more features and have very good metallic bodies. Don't buy this plastic junk. Look all the freebies that Kodak is throwing in to sell this :) I know I will not be very pouplar in my harsh review about this cheapie but I prefer to be candid.
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Summary: great camera
Review: Great camera with a good price. Its Very easy to use and takes extremely crisp, clear pictures. The dock is great to keep your batteries charged and you need at least a 128mb card. I wish the camera came with better zoom...but once i bought the additional telephoto lens, i was not disappointed at all. Can't go wrong with this camera.
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Summary: Great Camera, Great Price
Review: This is my first digital camera and so far I love it. After a lot of studying I thought I knew what I wanted. I was looking at 2MP's because of price. I did some comparing when I got to the store and ended up buying this one. I love it, the price was great, its simple to use, and the pictures turned out perfect. Can't go wrong with this one.
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Summary: Good camera but need a card reader
Review: On the whole, a good camera for the price with one serious limitation. For some reason, Kodak has decided to stop letting the DX series of cameras write from the computer to the compactflash card. You need a separate card reader to add files to the card.
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