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Summary: Great quality of pictures for the price
Review: I have had this camera for a year and have had absolutely no problems with it. It wasn't hard to learn to use either. My young children use my camera to take pictures with it and are able to view the pictures they took if that tells you anything and they are elementary age. You do have to be still when taking pictures but it is not as bad as the cheaper cameras. We have had 3 digital cameras before this one, and this one is by far the best we've found for the price. When I have more money to spend on a camera, I will probably upgrade slightly. For this last year, it has been great and cheap. We bought a case to keep the camera in because it did not come with one. We got a memory card to go with it and can take way more pictures now. Also, we invested in a flash card reader so it is lots quicker to get the pictures off. It used to take a long time to do it the old way. If you have ever seen a bad digital camera image like from the JamCam or the cheaper Creative cameras, the Kodak images are nothing like that. The images do not look like alien photos with solar flares. The conditions might have to be right, but you can get a good image from this camera. One feature I like is that you can control if you want the flash on or off and some you cannot. I have not had film developed in a year now, and I have saved so much money. ... I think it is great that the price has gone so low. I would pay a hundred for it in a heartbeat. Used to, I would tell people to not buy a digital camera unless it was in the hundred dollar range because anything else would produce low quality images. This camera produces nice images. I also would take a regular camera for important functions that I wanted good pictures for, but now this is the only thing I use. It suits us just fine.
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Summary: wow what a deal
Review: I can not belive how much the price has come down on the DC3200. I pay over [$$] for mine year and half ago. For this price you can pick one up for the kids. It has work well for use on trips to the zoo. But if you think you can get some good shots at christmas or the every moving new baby-forget it! It did take some nice shots at my brothers' wedding. You need to get close to the subjuct and not very much movement to get the shot. This camera is NOT forgiving. It will however make good 5x7 size pictures, but it is not too good for larger sizes. I did have some large size photos come out. The larger the more blurry they will become. We bought this thinking we would save some money on developing cost. I think we may have spent it on on ink. It is good for basic still somewhat close shots that you will be archiving with a cd burner and to lets the kids learn the art taking pictures. At this price do buy then you will know what you will what. It's a great price i might even buy one for my mom she loves my camra, but I am wanting a lot more. Like getting the shot even it the kids move a miro amount. No kid will stay still very long even olan mills has trouble with my 3 boys at one shot.
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Summary: Good Basic Camera
Review: This camera is to the Digital Camera realm what the old 126's were to portable cameras back in the days. If you remember 110 cameras, these were the most portable, but the pix were not great. 126's had a good pic and were reasonably portable. (Remember the box of Flash Cubes) The DC3200 camera gives a very nice 4"X6" picture. But, If you don't use the flash, you will tend to get fuzzy pics if you are not steady. The camera shot also occurs about 1/2 a second after you press the shutter release. This takes some getting used to, but it's not a great disincentive considering you can shoot around 400 pix at the best resolution with a 128Mb CF. Download these to you PC and pick the good ones for developing. I get my pix done as 4"X6"s and they look great.
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Summary: Great quality pictures, slow download
Review: This camera provides excellent quality photos, but because it is a serial port connection, downloading pictures is a slow and painful process. I guess you get what you pay for. Still, I would recommend this camera to those who want good quality for less money.
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Summary: Cheap! ...and you get what you pay for...cheap.
Review: This may seem like a good value, but in reality it is simply works like one of those cameras you can get at a drug store but just to take digital photos (and poor photos at that). The zoom is 1x or 2x and nothing in between and the LCD isn't a good representation of what you're actually taking. I had to actually download photos onto my computer before I could see if the photo was any good. My suggestion is to go with something a little more higher priced. When the accessories easily add up to more than the actual unit, you have ask yourself if its really a value or cheap for a reason.
Rating: 
Summary: Very pleased + tips on flash, transfer, batteries
Review: Picture quality is good for casual snapshots, purists with high expecations [and big budgets] should look elsewhere.
Battery life was a pleasant surprise - way more than I read in most reveiws
The flash is too bright for close ups, but here's a quick solution: Get a small roll of 1/2" double face foam tape with the removable paper. Cut 2 3/4" peices and cover about 1/2 the area of the sticky side with a peice of plastic milk jug. Put the 2 peices on the bottom right side of the camera. When you need to do a semi-close up, put one over the flash...closer, use both one on top of the other. Experiment to see the results.
The serial connection is too slow, but if you have a laptop, the pcmcia memory card holder [Viking offers one bundled with 32meg memory here on amazon] works slick...just put the memory in the holder, put it in laptop...it sees it as a drive. Transfers faster than a CD-Rom.
Batteries: Get NiMH [read faq about these at greenbatteries.com] rechargables...even with excellent battery performance, 500 recharges is worth 20x the initial cost ...
Rating:
Summary: Very pleased + tips on flash, transfer, batteries
Review: Picture quality is good for casual snapshots, purists with high expecations [and big budgets] should look elsewhere.
Battery life was a pleasant surprise - way more than I read in most reveiws - I got 150 pics on generic alkalines, more on NiMH.
The flash is too bright for close ups, but here's a quick solution: Get a small roll of 1/2" double face foam tape with the removable paper. Leave the paper on. Cut 2 3/4" peices and cover about 1/2 the area of the sticky side with a peice of plastic milk jug. Put the 2 peices on the left side of the camera. When you need to do a semi-close up, put one over the flash...closer, use both one on top of the other. Experiment to see the results.
The serial connection is too slow, but if you have a laptop, the pcmcia memory card holder [Viking offers one bundled with 32meg memory here on amazon] works slick...just put the memory in the holder, put it in laptop...it sees it as a drive. Transfers faster than a CD-Rom.
Batteries: Get NiMH [read faq about these at greenbatteries.com] rechargables...even with excellent battery performance, 500 recharges is worth 20x the initial cost...500/20=25x better value unless you screw the NiMH's up [read the FAQ 1st].
Rating: 
Summary: An appetizer
Review: Initially I liked the low starting price to get into digital photography. A week later, after spending $[money] on Flash, NIMH rechargeables & charger, AC adaptor and card reader, I wanted more. So I'm spending another $[money] for a different camera, and going into it limited in that the new one must take AAs and CF to prevent the rest of my $ from being wasted. If you want a camera for anything more than letting kids play with, posting auctions, or staged group shots (2 second delay after hitting shutter button, 12 second recharge time), spend the extra or wait to get one w/ OPTICAL ZOOM.
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Summary: Great for the price
Review: This camera takes really nice pictures and considering what we paid for it, it is wonderful. The flash distance is a little short but other than that it takes nice simple pictures. The software was easy to install and easy to use. We bought this primarily for computer imaging for a remote control robot project we are attempting but we ended up using it to take pictures of our kids too. The camera is way more than we need for the robot and the kids look great.
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Summary: Good camera for the price.
Review: I just recently purchased this camera. The main reason I give this camera 4 out of 5 stars is because of the price. ...Here's the skinny:
The goodies: the price, lcd screen, easy to use, good picture, software easy to use.
The badies : no timer, bulky-try putting this cam in your pocket, no lens cover, low internal memory (5 shots in best mode), serial connection slow, blurry image if subject moves, zoom ONLY works on the lowest resolution setting, intermittent ~3 secs before you can take the next shot (no continuous shots).
Required necessities: atleast 32mb flash memory card, usb port memory card reader(unless you like waiting a long time for your pictures to develop using the given serial port), batteries and charger.
so look to spend an additional ~$80 on extras...which is more than what i paid for the camera!!!
I reccommend purchasing this camera if you seldom will use one and just like sharing pictures via e-mail. If you want to print photo quality pictures this does the job, but other cams do it much better. Other things to keep in mind: DO NOT use flash with the subject within a 5ft range. You will have taken a picture of Casper =). Make sure your subject is still, otherwise you'll get blurry images. LCD viewer is slow to catch up if you move the camera around to quickly. Don't like the fact that you have to wait ~3 secs just to take the next shot. OK overall.
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