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Summary: Great little camera for the price
Review: This is my first digital camera. I know there are hundreds of digital cameras for sale but I settled on this one from a beginners point of view. My budget was limited, my knowledge of digital photography was limited, and my experience with Kodak has always been pleasant. I've not been disappointed with this camera. I bought it with the intentions of taking vacation photos and snapshots. It does the job well.If you don't plan to make enlargements, only print standard sized photos, this 2MP camera is great. You will need lots of batteries though and a battery charger. Also plan on buying an extra memory card or two if you plan to take lots of photos. The internal memory is only equal to "one roll of film". I recommend that you purchase a supply of rechargeable batteries and a battery charger. These digital cameras eat batteries at a alarming pace. You will want at least eight batteries. I took pictures in the daytime during vacation and charged up the batteries each evening. Don't leave the display screen on any more than you have to. It wastes the battery power in no time. Also you will want to buy extra memory for this camera. The 32MB internal memory was really not sufficient enough for my use. I bought a 256MB SD memory card and even at the highest resolution I can now get 10 times the number of pictures as before. The Easyshare software is easy to use but it's sort of hoggish unless you have tons of space on your computer's hard drive. I loaded the software and then realized that I already had everything "I" needed on my computer so promptly deleted the Kodak Easyshare software. You may want to keep it running. It has lots of nice features. I just didn't need all it's 'bells and whistles'. My camera came with an older Easyshare software version. If yours does that too you can always download the latest version from the Kodak.com web site. The instruction booklet is small but it contains tons of information. Read it. Those few buttons on the back of the camera are misleading. They are all multi-functional. I wish they'd included a wallet sized "cheat card". I made one for myself to tuck into my pocket. My memory needs an upgrade too, ha! You can download your pictures directly from the camera into your computer. It's really painless. I haven't tried printing pictures yet from a Kodak kiosk so I can't comment on that. I've only printed some on my printer and sent some as email attachments. So far I've been very pleased with the camera. It's wonderful not to have to buy film all the time. I love being able to take a picture, load it onto my hard drive and email it right away. No more waiting for the film to be developed. No more waiting extra days for the photo lab to put my pictures on disk or CD.
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Summary: So Far so good!
Review: This is my first digital camera. I am going out of the country to visit family next month, and I plan on taking a lot of pictures, but I didn't want to lug around boxes and boxes of film (I need to save all the suitcase space for clothes and whatnot). I also didn't want to spend a lot of money on the camera, just in case I lose it, as I often tend to lose things. For the price, I am so far very pleased. Not to mention I got the money towards a memory card, so I was able to get 64 MB card for just a few dollars.
Even though this is the first I have purchased, I am semi-familiar with digital cameras from high school and college courses and friends, so I somewhat knew what I was doing, but I think that this camera would be easy for even the least knowledgeable person. I opened up the package, put the batteries in, and started taking pictures. I have yet to look at the instruction manual! The one thing that I was a little disappointed about was the battery usage, but I'll get over it. I plan on buying the lithium batts. I had the camera on for about an hour and already the batts were on their last leg. But in their defense, I had the live feed on, and was trying it out on my TV, computer, etc. I'm sure that it'll be just fine when I just have it on to take the pictures.
I was also surprised about the quality of the pictures. I have emailed some to my family, and they're excellent! Plus, the software that was included is easy to use and install. All in all, this is probably the smartest investment I have made in a while!!
I will say that the shutter has to be held down for a second in order to take the picture, which is okay, but I have an 8 month old and it's impossible to get him to be still that long! And also, the buttons are a little punchy. Sometimes just pressing them once clicks them twice or you have to click them twice just to work, but all in all, it's a solid camera, especially for the casual picture taker.
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Summary: Small wonder with wrong cable
Review: I received the camera today, and the size of it just amazed me. It is very small (even though this oculd be tricky, because you could lose it or break it in an easier way). The quality of the pictures seems OK on the LCD. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to download them from the cam, because the cable seems to be the wrong size. I'll probably solve this problem, but the first impression wasn't the best, and that's why I took a star out of my review. With all the features the cam has, it was really a bargain.
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Summary: Plain and Simple
Review: I'd just like to add a couple of stuff to what the other reviewers had said : * First of all,this is a budget, entry level camera. Keep that in mind and you'll be a happy camper. * The LCD is NOT 1.6'' like the kodak website claims, its only about 1.2''. Besides that, it works fine. * You can avoid shutter lag almost completely by holding the shutter button in half way, then depress it fully when you need to. * You change all the settings using the menu on the LCD, wich isn't alot, but it wouldv'e been nice to have a small screen on top and seperate buttons for picture quality,flash and self-timer, so you dont have to turn on the LCD each time you need to change this.I guess they did this to keep the price down. * As I said, settings are minimal, so if you like that sort of thing, and you got the extra cash, get another camera. * Internal memory is good for its class. I doubt if there's a camera below $$$ with more that 16MB of internal memory. * Leave the dock, but get rechargebles. * Whats nice about the LCD is it's high refresh rate, if you hook it up to your VCR I reckon you'll be able to record some decent video footage. This is the type of camera wich you turn on, point in the right direction,press the button and get a picture.Nothing more, nothing less.
I'm happy with it and would recommend it.If it wasn't for the wrong LCD size, id've given it 5 stars.
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Summary: First Time Great Buy
Review: This was a gift so I cant say I invested in it. I will say to my friend who bought it GOOD JOB. I am by no means a techy and needed something REALLY simple to try my hands at digital photos.
1-point and shoot with advanced menu to enhance pics in all sorts of ways
2- clear amazing photos
3- easy to load sofware one touch transfer to your email desktop etc
3-menu options galore- for those that are tech smart plenty to play with. The rest of us : ) makes it easy to get great pics with little effort or know how.
*** strongly encourage- charger pack or travel set that has charger and battery. very important- camera does eat the juice if you play with all the features at once. card reader extra memory card and the Dock II. Only because it makes things so much easier.The camera takes 20+ pics before you need to transfer to pc. However if at an event and not able to upload the card would be perfect to store so that you can keep snapping away. ( kinda like an endless roll of film )The option to this is that you can delete any unwanted photos however again this eats juice. So a card and reader are good options for add-ons.To start you have everything you will need for a long time these little features simply enhance options and are fun.
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Summary: Great camera
Review: This is the perfect camera to start with in the digital world real user friendy . And for the price well worth it i just wish it had a higher zoom level but for the price just perfect
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Summary: small price, great product
Review: I recieved my camera today and 5 minutes later I was taking pictures. I have never owned a digital camera and this product is so easy to use its amazing. So far so good. For the price is a great buy.
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Summary: Overall pretty good
Review: This camera is easy to use and is good quality for the price. However, one disadvantage is that it does not have a zoom lens. Also, what you see through the viewfinder is a little different then how the picture ends up; the final picture has extra space on the right that you don't see when looking in the viewfinder, so be sure to keep that in mind when trying to center a picture.
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Summary: Very good camera for the money
Review: I was just venturing in to the world of digital photography, the new computer was packaged with a digital camera, but I was not able to take decent picutres. Agonizing with a friend, I was telling him, I just didn't think digital photography was for me. He recommended this camera to me, and I would in turn, highly recommend it to anyone else with basic photography needs. It takes great pictures, they are easy to download, print and edit. I would recommend the dock, the cost savings in batteries will make up for itself in short time. Using the dock, there is only one button to push to upload your pictures directly to your hard drive. The camera is small and light weight. It easily fits into your pocket The internal memory does not hold a lot of picures, but with a 64mb card, I have capability of taking close to 200 picures using a lower resolution. Even using the lower resolution, the pictures are very good.
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Summary: great camera
Review: Great camera for the price. All the advice I heard was "don't go below 3mp." My budget was small, so I decided to take the risk anyway. The resolution on the camera viewing screen isn't all that great, but I have printed off a lot of pictures, all sizes and they have turned out wonderful! Great camera for the casual picture taker.
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