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Summary: Easy to use, Operate and Print, a MUST HAVE, HIGHLY RECOMEND
Review: This is a Fantastic Camera.
This is our first digital camera and we are very pleased with the simpleness of how to operate, e-mail, even print photo's.
Pictures are in Professional quality. I have a Lexmark Z22 and use Kodak Ultima Picture Paper and Office Depot Premium Selection Satin Gloss for Best Quality pictures. The thing I don't like is that it doesn't keep a list of Pics you send to whome, (unless I havn't figured it out yet). We HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS CAMERA even without a docking station. I can send 15 pics in one email, and we are taking pics of wildlife and they are fantastic. My 12yr. old had this camera figured out within 3 min and was able to print them within 15 min of installing software. THAT'S HOW EASY IT IS TO USE!!. We have looked around for other camera's and we liked this one the best. With the software you can edit your pics and for fun things you can even change the pics to colloring book and cartoons, crop and brighten or darken, shading or contrast. Printing Pics in different sizes like 8X10,5X7,portrait or landscape and other sizes.
Easy as 1,2,3. Instal software, take pictures, Print or Email.
Can't get any easier then that.
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Summary: Basic camera but a terrific value
Review: This was my first digital camera, and I was happily snapping pictures 5 minutes out of the box. Menu system is very easy to use, though the controls to do so lack fine control, and you may wind up trying a couple times to select on option, but that's a very minor complaint! The images are fine for email, but as with other reviewers -- printing them out in any size is an exercise in frustration. They're simply not good printed, but for 2mg pixels how much can you ask for? I found the color to be extremely true to life, the flash *more* than adequate for casual pictures, and so far it has handled surprising extremes of lighting very well. Cons? The camera sucks battery life like a starving vampire! CRV3 batteries are the only thing with any life at all, but at $10 a pop for those, you'll want to be very conscious about turning the camera off when not using it. Do NOT use AA - you'll go through 60 pounds of them inside a week, and camera performance suffers. Do NOT buy the dock! It's outrageously expensive, and you can transfer pictures with the USB cable provided. The dock is a waste of mnoney. I recommend this camera because it's the best value for the money spent for a name brand camera at the beginner level. However, if you take a lot of pictures, or want more control - ie filtering, zoom, movies etc -- then you should spend more and move up the pixel ladder to a 4mp. But be prepared to spend *several* hundred more to do so!
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Summary: Waste of time, money, and review space.
Review: Unless you're a philanthropist or one of those people who just love pain, don't buy this product. My first use went OK; I was able to send the pictures to my computer with little problem. Finding them was an adventure, but with a little computer knowhow (not available with camera) I found them. Everything since then has been a nightmare. I can take pictures, but my computer refuses to recognize the camera through the USB cable. Frustrated after several attempts, I bought Kodak's overpriced camera dock. It doesn't even do the initial charging of the batteries! But that's for a review on the dock... The pictures it did take (both the ones I was able to get to my computer and the ones forever stuck on the camera) were subpar at best. They were fuzzy, and any amount of light (daylight and lack of) won't help this. The included software only helps if you don't use it. Even the wretched Paint software included on every PC is more help to pictures than the Kodak software. Please, please, spend your hard earned money elsewhere. This product isn't worth any price tag.
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Summary: If it weren't a gift I'd send it back...
Review: Even with the little screen on the back of this camera you can't tell that a picture you've taken is blury. Not to mention it is particularly confusing having a switch on the side to determine whether its in focus for close ups or distance photos. The low megapixels make it impossible to enlarge anything you've cropped to any extent. Finally and probably the worst problem has to do with light. If you are unfortunate enough to have to use the flash, it only lights up the center of the picture often washing out the middle and leaving a circle of darkness around the edge. I was almost broken hearted when I realized there was nothing I could do about this. I imagine that for as much as the gift giver paid...it was probably still too much.
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Summary: Great Camera, Easiest to use
Review: The best part I like about this camera is that it is very easy to use. Taking photographs is fun with user friendly menu. I did not even pen the manual. I have taken several good photographs using this camera. Thge pictures were crystal clear at highest resolution. But if you are lookign for a camera which can zoom, then this camera is not for you. I take only point and shoot pictures most of the time and so its perfect for me. Okay now I want to tell something about the part after you take the snaps. That is downloading. The software is so easy to use and when you plug in this camera the software automatically downloads all the pictures. Actually on my computer I can see the camera as a drive in windows explorer. Things I dont like are low memory and low battery life. I recommend buying rechargeable batteries and 256 Mb compact flash card which is right now on sale in amazon.com.
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Summary: Kodak Easy Share CX4200: Great Starter Digital Camera
Review: Pros: Very easy to use, inexpensive, sturdy, Easy to use, lightweight, great pictures, video out, lcd and traditional viewfinders, Good exposure, compact, Easy download of pictures, good starter software. Cons: No optical zoom, The extra "dock" costs you ..., but you don't really need it, small lcd, small internal memory, Zoom options are limited, Only 16 MG of internal memory, Secure Digital is the only memory upgrade avaliable, eats AA batteries like candy!!! Summary: The pictures that I have downloaded and printed on my printer have been excellent quality. I even printed an 8X10 of my daughter and it turned out great. The images were not grainy as I had suspected they would be. I have read a lot of reviews that state the casual photographer should not need much more than a 2.0 mega-pixel camera. After printing pictures and having some printed by online retailers, I must say I am NOT disappointed. The colors seem true to life and I haven't seen much red-eye. Transfering pictures to your computer is easy, even without the dock. Just connect your USB cable to the camera and your computer, turn on the Kodak easy share software and hit transfer. You can transfer all your pictures at once, one-by-one, or by date acquired. I transferred 8 pictures at once and it only took a few seconds. You can edit the pictures with the software, e-mail them or order online prints. I have it set up so that pictures automatically get stored in the "my pictures" file on my computer, but that really wasn't needed. I think this is a very good camera for first timers and people that are on a limited budget. A must Want List!!
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Summary: I LOVE this little camera
Review: I bought our CX4200 back in March. We've taken hundreds of photos and are well pleased with it. It's easy to use and the software gave us no problem at all. But the most truly amazing thing about our camera is this - we live in Ohio and visited Dawes Arboretum (a magnificent place) and I accidentally dropped our camera. It hit the ground, rolled down an incline, went off the incline into the lake where it became totally submerged. I jumped in after it and it was dead as a doornail. We removed the Kodak memory card and the batteries, hoping to use them in a different camera. Today, four days after the dunking incident, I put the batteries and the card back in, turned it on and it's working again, just as good as new. The pictures transferred as well as they ever did, and all the camera's functions are working. This camera was under water - it had water inside it, water in the battery compartment, water in the dock connector, water in the viewfinder and fogging up the LCD. A camera repairman offered little hope for it but today, this little camera is alive and well and taking photos. Don't try this with your camera! Just know that Kodak make a quality product, despite what may be said to the contrary.
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Summary: 3000 pictures later
Review: I just downloaded my 3000th picture off my camera and I really like it. In hindsight I wish I had paid some extra and got the optical zoom but that is just me. The pictures are clear the color is bright in all but the most extreme conditions. It was easy to use and with the purchase of a $5 camera bag, it has stood up well. I recommend some Nickel Hydrate batteries to go with it. It takes around 300 pictures on a pair of freshly recharged batteries for me. I haven't printed much off as I prefer to post them online on one of the many free photo sites but the few I have, I have been happy with their performance.
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Summary: Happy with this camera
Review: Easy to use, easy to load pics on computer. 2 MP is more than enough for most people, sometimes too big to email. I mostly use the 1.3 MP and the picture quality is great. Only complaint is the battery life is OK but not great, get rechargeables.
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Summary: Don't waste your time and money!
Review: I bought the CX4200 because I wanted a digital camera. I used my parent Olympus on a trip to Australia and I realized that I never wanted to go back to a regular "film" camera again. I found the CX4200 and after reading many of the reviews I thought that it would be a good camera (I didn't have the money to spend the money on an Olympus). Well I was flat out wrong. I have only had this camera since Feburary and I want to get rid of it. Even on the highest resolution the pictures are still fuzzy and don't even think about printing out anything above a 4x6 picture because it will just look horrible. The camera come with 16mB internal memory and that is all. It also sucks through the batteries like candy. The batteries that came with it didn't even last one day! I then used the same rechargable batteries that my parents use and I had to change them 3 times as much! You have to have the camera on in order to transfer pics (through the USB) and that drains the battery even worse. Also, the editing program you can use with the camera is a waste. If you move a picture, it doesn't recognize it anymore and you have to hunt it down. The camera is also bulkly and heavy. The zoom is pretty much useless. Your subject is basically unrecognizable if you try to zoom. There is such a delay in the shutter that I have missed a lot of great shots. Plus, there is a long delay when you turn the camera on, so that can make you loose shots too. Taking pictures at night, or even low light, is horrible. When you use the flash it floods everything out. I also had problems with the lens cover (if you can call it that). In order to turn the camera on you must flip up a switch on the front of the camera. My switch broke and I tried calling and emailing Kodak and they told me to get new batteries and then try it! Finally I called a camera store and they told me how to take it apart and fix the problem. So all in all, don't waste your money with this camera. I am throwing this out and getting an Olympus which is a far better camera for your money!
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