Rating: Summary: Best Bang 4 ur Buck! Review: I bought this camera one year ago and have found it to be absolutely one of the best on the market. I believe Kodak may have replaced it with a 3900 or something, but the camera is great. I read reviews about the batteries not lasting long, and about the clarity and size of the LCD being insufficient. In my humble opinion, that is not correct. The camera takes some of the best pictures I have seen. Several friends and relatives have digital cameras that cost way more than this one and their pictures just cannot compare. For this kind of money, you will not find a better deal - and Kodak provides any accessories and software drivers you may need.
Rating: Summary: DC3400 Review: Nice pictures on all quality settings. Battery life is much better then I thought it would be. Reviews I read before buying this product indicated short battery life as one of the Camera's negatives. Not so. Often used functions like "no red-eye", "Close-up", "distance" settings are on top of Camera for easy access. Other functions are set via menus displayed on LCD display. Very simply to use. User's LCD interface used for Camera setup and function settings is very intuitive.Negatives: 2X zoom is not enough in some cases. Comes with only a 8MB memory card. I had to buy a 64MB. Recharger and Ni-Mh batteries are not included. I had to buy these seperately.
Rating: Summary: Great Camera Review: Does everything you need to do with a digital camera. Looks like a camera! Easy to use and do all functions.
Rating: Summary: Very good! (Almost Excellent though) Review: This is as short as it can be: THUMBS UP: - Turn On/Off in 3 sec (very good). - Turn On LCD in 1 sec, turn Off in a split second. - 2x Zoom is not bad at all (1.5 sec from W to T and vice versa) Equal to 38-76mm. - TV Out is really convenient for presentation. I used this when I took almost 80 pics after a farewell party and everybody just loved it. - Tons of options to enhance your pics (add a border, exposure adjustment, white balance) - Internal memory that allows me to take 3 rapid shots. Better than nothing. - Battery is OK, not great though. I took around 120 pics with LCD + connect to TV for presentation and the battery still alive (in a very critical condition). - With full battery, you can turn on LCD for a little more than 10 mins. THUMBS DOWN: - Zoom is a little noisy. - LCD is more pixelate and has a slow refresh rate (around 15fps) - Software is really bad!!! Doesn't work with my comp (Celeron 1.1Ghz, W2K, 768RAM). I used a CF reader. Summary: I don't have to read the manual to use it. Get an NIMH battery, and you are set to go. Very good if you can get it around $200.
Rating: Summary: Easy to use! Review: The Kodak DC3400 is so easy to use and download pictures from, I don't think I would want another digital camera. The menu is user friendly and so is the download process. The only draw back is that is goes through batteries really fast (4 "AA"'s at a time!) I recommend this for a starter digital camera for anyone interested in buying a digital camera. Tracy Donah
Rating: Summary: Great camera for the money Review: (...) The camera is very easy to use and takes very nice pics. It has nice options like Sepia mode(gives the photo a old fashion look like brown tone) and B&W mode. I bought a 32mb memory card a few days later - the 8mb it came with will hold about 25 pics on middle resolution and with the 32mb card it will hold about 77 pics at the same resolution.I would say the only negative things about this camera are the ready-to-shoot time after turning it on is about 5 or 6 seconds mainly due to extending the lens out and it takes about the same time to store pics in the memory card after each shot- but then again how often do you need to take rapid fire shots anyway! Oh yeah one more thing is that I highly recommend buying an HP Photosmart printer - they have a memory card slot built in so you can bypass your computer if you want or you can download the pics into your computer that way also. (...)
Rating: Summary: Great little camera Review: I bought this camera a week ago and really love it. I got a set of 1600 recharbles batteries at the same time so don't know how long the alkaline would last. I also use the view finder to take pictures with a quick view after the picture is taken. Remember when taking distance shots to adjust the focus for it on top or your pictures may not be clear. The menu is easy to follow and adjust and most settings stay where you set them( untill you change them back. I take lots of shots in the lower res. as I get more pictures on my card. A good camera for the money.
Rating: Summary: A design failure in lenz cover... Review: There is no lenz cover for DC3400. But obviously Kodak improve the design in DC3600 and later.It is not convinient to use the rubber cover manually. And the LCD window is not very clear comparing to Sony's. But I do not complain about price which is half of that of Sony's.
Rating: Summary: good camera, but... Review: It is a good camera, but heavier than most of the digital cameras and not easy to hold... These two problems are small but annoying...
Rating: Summary: Excellent Point & Shoot Digital Camera Review: I have had the Kodak DC3400 for about 15 months and have taken over 1800 snaps with it. It is an excellent amateur camera. The picture quality is excellent - sharp with beautiful bright colors. 4x6 and 8x12 prints made look excellent. The learning curve is very short and the camera is very easy to use. Transferring snaps to a PC is a snap using the USB port. NiMh batteries are recommended. On a set of 1600 mAH, I recently took 175 pictures, with flash and preview on all !! A larger Complact Flash card is also recommended. These are dirt cheap right now. Since I bought the DC3400, I have used my film camera only about 5% of the time - for situations where I might want large prints (16x20, 20x30). Cost wise, I'm way ahead, than if I had shot with film.
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