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Summary: A great beginning
Review: I've been a lousy (but dedicated) photo hobbyist for more than 30 years. Highly complicated cameras are great... but I always find myself doing most work on point-&-shoot cameras. Last year, when my 1960s-era Fuji started to fall apart, I spent $20 on a Fuji Smart Shot 35mm.I was all set to drop $400 on a digital camera, so that I could finally move into the 1990s, as well as post & send photos without having to scan them. I got overwhelmed by all the questions, though: how many mp? what memory format? how much zoom? optical or electronic? movies? audio? I was all set to give up the hunt & stick with 35mm, then I was buying office supplies & the CX6200 was on sale. Sure, hardly top-of-the-line. Sorta fragile... like my Fuji. My biggest -- & so far only -- gripe is that the Kodak doesn't have any sort of lens cover. I mean, come *on*, people, a camera that can't even take a rubber lens cap??? In all, if it only lasts a year, I figure the 6200 is a good investment. Between buying film & having it developed, I spend at least $80 a year, only to discard more than half the photos as necessary waste in getting what I want. It's a good camera for point-&-shoot use, yet also gives me a little flexibility as far as image quality, & the redeye-reduction feature has thus far been perfect. Accessorize!! I'd recommend that you get a decent memory card (the 64mb seems to strike a nice balance for me between cost & storage), a NiMH battery kit (or a Kodak dock if you find a good price), & a $10 case. The Kodak software has its minuses, but I'd say to skip the cutesy bells&whistles, just buy an inexpensive USB reader.
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Summary: Kodak Easyshare CX6200
Review: I bought this camera about 2 months ago n i guess i did some good filming with it and what not, but it takes huge pictures. it started off taking like 24 kb pictures and now it takes 1-2 mbs. Now screen cracked on me and that will probably cost more to replace then the camera itself. i dont really like this camera.
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Summary: Money thrown down the drain!!!
Review: I received the camera for Christmas and used it twice. After I changed the batteries in it, the camera stopped working. I called Kodak and they said I would have to send it in for repair. After wating for a while without a reply, I called Kodak again to find out what was going on with my camera. They told me that water or some liquid got into it and corroded it and because of that, it would not be covered by the warantee. The camera was never near any water as I only had the opportunity to use it twice. Their customer service is awful and they want $130 to fix the camera. I would rather buy a new one than give them anymore of my money. Stay away from this camera!
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Summary: Great camera, ROTTEN software
Review: The most important thing first: DO NOT, under any circumstances, install the Kodak Easyshare software CD which comes with this camera. If you have newer versions of Windows, including XP, you don't need to install the software in order to download the pics from camera to the computer. The computer will automatically download them. What will the Easyshare CD install? Some of the crappiest photo-management software I've seen, a bunch of programs which constantly connect to Kodak's web site, and a bunch of spyware which Lavasoft's Ad-Aware 6.0 discovered. You can get rid of the spyware with Ad-Aware, but merely uninstalling the Easyshare software won't remove everything. I still have a Kodak CCS process running, despite numerous attempts to get rid of it. Ignoring the software, this is one of the easiest digital cameras you will ever use. I've had several digital cameras since the late 90s and this is the best 2 megapixel camera I've had. The menu is fairly intuitive. Battery consumption, if you use NIMH rechargables, is reasonable. Picture quality is very good, especially outdoors. Indoors, the pics occasionally suffer from a weaker-than-it-should-be flash, but they're still quite good. Red-eye, an occasional problem with using a regular flash is very rare. There is a red-eye flash option if you need it. The price, less than $100, is excellent value. If you're looking for a semi-decent 2 megapixel camera, this is it - just don't install the crappy software.
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Summary: Good, but not what I was looking for
Review: I bought this camera to take pictures of things I want to sell on ebay. I'm use to higher end digital cameras (Nikon 995, Olympus 4000?) and I didn't have super high expectation for this camera.
Here's what impressed me about this camera:
- The ease of use of this camera is incredible. I find most digital cameras extremely difficult and cumbersome, this was a snap!
- The delay between taking a photo and the camera ready for the next photo was very short. There was also a very short delay between hitting the shutter button and the picture being taken.
- The software (I was using the version for Mac OS X) was very smooth and useful. I think it's a bit quicker than iphoto. The disastisffaction comes with the image quality at close range (<4"). I didn't realize there's no macro mode, so I'm unable to take detail shots of things I'm selling at close range. These close up images were extremely blurry. When I zoomed in to a graphic file using photoshop there was a lot of jpg distortion, more than I've seen on other cameras. You can adjust the image resolution (number of pixels) of the camera, but not the level of jpg encoding. I tried taking close-up photos with the flash off, in my expereiene with other cameras, this can sometimes increase image quality. All of these photos were underexposed (even when I adjusted the image exposure compensation). I think this might be because the longest shutter speed is 1/2 second. The photos I took at normal conditions seemed to be of good quality. Synopsis: Great camera interface. Good regular condition photos. Very sucky close-up photos.
I'm probably going to return this camera and get a higher end 2MP camera. A good camera, but I've pushed its limits with my needs.
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Summary: Not as good as the CX4200 was.
Review: I used to own Kodak's previous 2MP digital camera, the CX4200 (only available used now). I bought a CX6200 thinking I could get the same 2MP quality AND video capability for an even better price. Unfortunately, while the CX6200 takes good photos, they just aren't as crisp as the 4200's. The CX6200 doesn't have a real lens cap, to begin with. It only has a clear piece of plastic covering the lens, and this cover cannot be removed or replaced. ....Which means 1) photo quality suffers because of the filtering effect of this plastic and 2) if the cover is scratched or discolored, you can say bye-bye to picture quality. In picture comparisons, the 6200's photos seem to have more "noise" than the 4200's pics. The 6200 apparently does not have an auto-focus lens, and it shows. The 6200 also does not have the incredible close-up-photo ability that the 4200 had. The 6200 takes decent close-ups, but once you get closer than 18 inches from the object it starts to get a little blurry. Video Quality: Really grainy. I wasn't expecting much, but this was about the minimum I was hoping for. There is all kinds of noise (by noise I mean red/green/blue-ish pixels the camera inserts to fill in picture information), the video is in barely compressed QuickTime format, and the maximum video length is 30 seconds no matter what size memory card you have installed. Oh, and there's no sound. Even without sound and with such mediocre quality, a 30-second clip will cost you over 7MB. This capability is only good for very casual clips in perfect conditions. Those are most of the Cons. PROS:
- Pretty good battery life--at least as good as the 4200 (using 1800mah NiMH). As with all digital cameras, you MUST buy rechargeables. Good battery life in video mode as well.
- The camera is just slightly smaller than the 4200, thanks to the rounded corners, and is very portable (but it may be a bit heavy).
- The LCD is as bright as advertised. Definitely an outdoor display.
- The directional buttons are separate buttons, unlike the 4200's pad, which was clumsy to use.
- The pictures are good quality, sufficient for basic photo taking. Colors are pretty good and it adapts well to changes in light.
- The camera allows you to take photos in black and white, and sepia, as well as true color.
- In addition to Good, Better, and Best quality settings, you can take wide photos at 3:2. It's not a bad machine, but you're definitely only getting what you pay for.
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Summary: Great value for money, but with "hidden" costs...
Review: This review is written from a value-for-money perspective. It's surprising what you get for such a low price. One of the good point of this camera is that it's also quite suitable for night photography (a tripod is needed though). Just simply turn off the flash, put it on a stable platform and adjust the exposure time upwards to +2 (in the menu settings). You can capture the ambience and dynamics of the city at night (illuminated buildings and streets, traffic etc.) or even firework with this. The results & colors are surprisingly good (a flash would ruin such nightscenes). To the contrary to some of the reviewers wrote, you can turn off the flash for the entire session, so it's not disabled for one photo only. The flash would go back to its default status ("on") when you turn off the camera. However, the camera comes with "hidden" costs in that you will have to buy rechargeable batteries and memory cards. Pros: easy to use, good color balance, adjustable exposure time, basic but good functionalities (for the price), acceptable video quality considering the price Cons: no protection for lens, digital zoom is a bit disappointing, no built-in rechargeable batteries, internal memory is very low (only 8MB), LCD screen is small, the sofware is indeed full of spyware (as a previous reviewer had wisely noted)
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Summary: Bare Bones Camera
Review: That's what it is. If that's what you want, then buy it. Mine didn't come with the sometimes-mentioned memory card. Got it day after Thanksgiving for $80, though. Photos look great on the computer screen (Sony 15" LCD). Haven't seen prints. Problems are: • No carrying case or lens cover
• Viewfinder is off significantly from the lens. About 20% of what I photograph is out of the viewfinder. No lens cap is just cheesy. There's no excuse for the latter. Hence the 3 stars.
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Summary: Thank you, Santa!
Review: Santa Claus was very inspired to give me this present! I enjoy a lot taking pictures, but I am not a pro and I often feel uncomfotable with high-tech devices. This camera is perfect for someone wishing to take simple pictures and make short length movies with an easy to use camera. Even if has only 2.0 mega pixels, the quality of the pictures is very good and so are the colors. Transfering pictures into the computer is very simple and the camera is so small and light, that it fits into a pocket. Just make sure you buy good batteries and an extra memory, so that you won't have to transfer the pictures too often to your computer. I promise you will have a lot of fun.
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Summary: WW
Review: A fun, easy to use camera. Docking station might be useful but I had no problem hooking this up straight to my computer's USB port (Windows XP). You can pay a little less and get a lot less camera. Picture quality with 2MP is very good on a PC, and we got nice 4" X 6" prints after uploading to an on-line printing source.
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