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Summary: A workhorse
Review: I bought this camera about three years ago when digital was just coming of age. Also have the DC 5000 at my office which is basically the same camera in a more durable shell. My personal 280 has traveled with me almost around the earth and it always works! You just need to prepare--I always take at least three sets of batteries, a few cards and a quick charger wherever I go. One great thing about the 280 is that it uses AA batteries. Try finding a propritary battery in Cozumal Mexico. The shots I have taken always receive praise about the clarity and color, even at low compression rates. Part of my job is to put together a newsletter. We just started trying out a Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera for going out and getting newspaper quality snapshots. Not to badmouth Nikon or anything, but everyone wants to go back to the Kodak for it's simplicity and guaranteed results.
I'm looking for a small pocket size camera like the elph because of it's portability. I think I might wait for the S400 Canon. But I would never sell the 280, because it's always there as a backup. It just simply works well for most things.
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Summary: This camera really makes nice pictures!
Review: This camera really does it all and takes great pictures. The only real shortcoming is the LCD screen. It is a bit fuzzy and usually the photos look much better when they are shown on a computer or television screen. One other nice feature is that it may be connected via serial or USB port.
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Summary: It will blow you away!
Review: Awesome! Great color rendition, sharp pictures, easy to use. Too bad they don't make them anymore.
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Summary: The best digital camera in the world.
Review: I've bought the DC-280 camera more than two years ago. Since that I owned many different digital cameras. Technology have changed, resolution increased, weight reduced, size shrunk, but no any new camera can bet the DC-280 color balance and vividness of pictures. I've made a lot of comparisons, asked my friends choose the best one, and DC-280 always won. That's outstanding.
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Summary: Wonderful pictures & Easy to use
Review: This is a fantastic camera, and I love it to pieces!
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Summary: Has served me well
Review: I have owned and used this camera for two years now and i still love it. The first thing is this camera takes great pirctures. I go ... and get my pictures printed and they are turn out amazing everytime. The second thing that i like about this camera is that i can normally fill up my 32mb flash card (which mine came with)on one set of battires. One thing that i would highly recomend is a flash card reader, which makes download times alot faster. I use windows xp pro and have not had any trouble. I have some of my pictures at my website ...
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Summary: Extremely sharp pictures ! !
Review: I've taken ~1200 pictures... all extremely sharp, especially colors and tones reproduction. Much much sharper and clearer than my brothers' Olympus C3xxx cameras.1 annoying issue, the LCD drains batteries like the Niagara Fall drains water. BUT... I never use it... so it isn't a problem! Oh, I have 3 sets of 4-pack Ni-MH batteries and a 128MB CF, yeah baby!... Had it for 2 years... keeping it for another... 5-6 more years.
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Summary: Good Point And Shoot
Review: A really nice beginners camera. Makes for some good landscape shots, the colors are real close, and the depth of feild is set well for landscape. Portrait shots aren't as nice, but they'll do. Sturdy little thing, been dropped a few times and doesn't seem to mind. Doesn't work good in cold weather however.
In my personal opinion, it's not worth the price tag. There are more up-to-date cameras out there with a lot more goodies if you are going to put out that kind of money for a digital point and shot.
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Summary: A great point and click Digital Camera
Review: This is a very solid camera that takes good pictures indoor or outdoors. It is very user friendly and consistently takes good pictures, no matter who is taking them (Unlike several Sony's I tried before settling on this one). Their are several features on this camera that make it particularly appealing to me.
* Accepts any type of AA battery and comes with rechargeable ones
* Transfers pictures through USB (can also get a compact flash card reader, I highly reccommend).
* Has a Video patch cord that allows you to preview pictures on any TV or VCR with an RCA input.
* Accepts Flash Memory of any brand up of 196 MB+ (alot of pictures).
* Border software allows you to import different borders for your shots, such as birthdays and weddings. Although the camera is only a 2.0 megapixel, I've learned megapixels don't tell the whole story for the quality of a picture. They only become important if you want to consistently produce picture sizes above 5x7 (8x10 takes a dip in quality).
Overall a very good camera for an enry level to average user. If you are a more advanced user with higher resolution needs, you might checkout the Nikon coolpix 900 series, a very good camera, though it is twice the price of the Kodak 280 zoom.
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Summary: A rugged contender
Review: I've had my 280 for a year now and haven't found anything to seriously squawk about. I've shot a good 600 pictures from a 120 degree Arizona summer to a -22 degree Massachusetts Nor'easter. It's been bumped, knocked, and dropped and still takes pictures as good as when it came out of the box.
The use is simple enough for even a manager (like myself) to use. Most of the time I just point and shoot and the pictures come out just fine. I like being able to manually adjust the exposure because I find myself inside and not allowed to use the flash. Most of these indoor pic's come out fine.
I'm about to graduate to a higher pixel camera but will pass my faithful Kodak onto my son. I just hope I can find another unit as tough and reliable as my 280.
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