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Summary: First-time Digital Camera User
Review: My husband received this camera free at a conference. It sat in a cabinet for about six months. Finally I opened the box and figured out how to use it. It produces great photos to e-mail. I have printed 5 by 7's that are quite clear.
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Summary: Just an example of the Photo's this camera takes
Review: You can find images taken with the Kodak DX3500 at http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=ransim.All of these images are unedited except for cropping. These were taken under the good quality setting (not even the best) during my vacation in august to the Smokie Mountains National Park. This camera takes beautiful pictures, they absolutely stunned me and blew me away after my trip. It gave me truely memorable pictures for my vacation. I've also begun to use it to photograph my friend's and Washington, DC. And I will also note, i have some photography experience but i AM NOT a expert. Simply an amateur who likes to take photos. Enjoy these representations of what this wonderful camera can do.
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Summary: Good little camera -- Hidden costs down the road, though!
Review: For good, old-fashioned family snapshooting and for dabbling in the hobby of photography, this is a great camera. At the highest resolution, the images are very sharp and the colors vivid. Even with a cheap printer, you can get some high-quality prints out of this camera. The on-screen menu is self-explanatory, as is the computer software that comes with the camera. The bells and whistles abound. On the downside, the auto-flash often makes incorrect decisions. There's also a split-second delay between the push of the button and when the camera actually records the image, so if you're trying to catch a "moment," you'll miss it half the time. Every once in a while, a picture comes out blurry, but you don't know it at the time because the preview window looks just fine. And forget about using the "digital zoom" - it's the same thing if you just take a regular image and enlarge it in Photoshop, because it doesn't enhance the quality whatsoever. Like any affordable digital camera, it chews up batteries and doesn't come with nearly enough internal memory -- so count on dropping a significant wad on some NiCad batteries and CompactFlash cards. Other than that, it's a fun little camera and well worth the price tag.
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Summary: Good basic camera
Review: This is a nice "point and shoot" digital camera, with very good resolution. Don't get fooled into thinking that digital zoom means anything significant. It simply enlarges the image, and decreases the resolution. Nevertheless, 2.2MP resolution is quite good enough for nearly everything you'll want to do. How often do you enlarge photos beyond 8X10"? If you do that frequently, get a better camera. Otherwise for the current price, this is a very usable camera. Remember, the higher the resolution the larger the picture file. 2.2 MP is a very good compromise. You'll want a couple of 64 Meg or larger memory cards (Compact Flash). The 3500 is light, and the pictures look great. Battery life is very good. Buy 4 additional NiMH batteries and a charger. You will have to learn to use this camera however. You'll want to learn the menu structure, and the quirks of the camera. The flash is typical of such cameras, usable only for close snapshots. The optics are fine. It's fixed focus. The shutter speed is (probably) fixed and fairly slow - HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY! The manual simply says the exposure is "automatic." Don't worry about the learning curve. Take your time. Erase the bad pictures - they're FREE! This camera has been available for a while so you may want to look at the newer offerings. But then look at the current price of the 3500.
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Summary: Great product for the price
Review: I'm pleasantly surprised how easy this camera is to use and considering the low price, the quality is outstanding.
This is my first digital camera so I wanted something simple, but decent, and cheap.
It takes great pics outdoors and the flash is all you need for wonderful indoor shots.
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Summary: Great Camera!
Review: This is a great camera for a amatuer photographer. I personally do web design, and needed something that would give me nice pictures without breaking my pocket, after several months of research i broke down and bought a refurbished Kodak DX 3500. I will say I am immensely impressed, the camera is easy to use, takes wonderful pictures even on the lowest settings and allows me to take 40 pictures with just the internal memory. The digital zoom, tho everyone seems to complain works wonderful for up-close pictures, I mean like right ontop of the subject/object it definately removes the haziness you would normally get, but using it at distances cause it to blur which is normal for any digital zoom. The tranfer to my Mac is absolutely simplistic, it took awhile for me to get all of the automatic stuff like the transfer utility and the web browser popping up on start up to go away. I don't recommend using the tranfer utility on a mac it always locked mine up, i have a 233mhz 128 meg first series iMac with OS 8.6. Instead i just let it mount the camera icon to my desktop then drag the pictures from the camera folder to where i want them and it transfers quickly and smoothly. The camera itself feels a bit flimsy, but i wouldn't worry much, i'm hard on equipment and its managed to take the beating i've given it, even been dropped a couple times. Another plus to this camera is that it takes GREAT night pictures, and works wonderfully if you are trying to get that artsy effect, i definately like being able to turn off the flash. Now for my downsides, this is definately NOT a professional camera, don't expect it to be, you can't manually adjust the zoom, you can't manually do anything. Also the menus can be confusing until you figure them out or read the manual, it took me about 2 days to get it all down. Also the memory in the camera isn't much if you plan on a long trip, i advise a compact flash card, i've order a Viking one since they seem recommended for kodak for mine. And the last downside is that the pictures on the LCD can be deceiving as to what they will look like. I advise only using the LCD, as you would for almost any type of camera with an LCD, just to make sure you got the area you wanted, don't trust color, brightness/darkness with it. All in all this is a good camera, if you want professional be prepared to spend more, but if you want something to take good pictures, this is your camera, its easy, functional, a good design and takes wonderful pictures. Definately worth my money.
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Summary: Great Camera!
Review: I got a DX3500 about a week ago, i purchased mine refurbished from the Amazon marketplace. I must say i love it, it has great pictures even at night and with low light without a flash, it allows me to do wonderful things artistically speaking. I wouldn't tho recommend this for a professional photographer, but for the amatuer this camera would be perfect. The images even on the lowest level are crisp and clear and the colors look beautiful. For as much as everyone has complained about the digital zoom I've found it works well for close up objects it tends to make the picture a bit more crisp otherwise i wouldn't use it. All in all, I have no gripes. The camera does what i want it to do, it fits nice in my hand, it does feel a bit fragile, but its plastic and not a really expensive camera. And transfering files on my macintosh is incredibly fast and easy to do, i don't even have to use the transfer software it links the camera as an item on my desktop and i can just drag and drop. Again I highly recommend this item, but make sure you get a compact flash card as well, and they are much cheaper online then at a store. I got a 128MB card for $ on amazon instead of $ in the store.
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Review: I purchased this camera in late November of 2001, I had about 250 dollars to spend on one and this one looked pretty good.
I was thrilled with this camera when I first got it, it seemed pretty good, I bought 2 extra memory cards, a flashcard reader and some rechargable batteries as well as a few other accessories to get me all set.
I took a walk around the neighborhood one afternoon with a friend and we took random pictures of whatever just to see how it works out.
First of all, the pictures with this are huge, being a 2MP camera, but like someone else said, there are only 2 settings and even with the 'good' quality the pictures are still pretty big.
Second, digital zoom is stupid. I didn't really know what this feature was at first, I thought it was just some kind of zoom on digital cameras that was actually useful, but as I found out, it was not.
When using digital zoom it just makes a total blur of what you think you are zooming in on.
The camera is pretty easy to operate, but it is a pain to keep changing settings for each picture you take, so there's another down side to it.
Like other people said, this camera seems quite flimsy, as in if you drop it it seems like it just might break. If not the camera itself, something inside at least.
Something else I noticed is that this camera isnt that great with its little viewfinder, I don't know. My pictures often come out with things cut off that I thought I was getting in the picture.
After a few months of having this camera I realized that it wasnt quite what I had wanted.
Also there is no way to add any zoom lenses to this camera so even if you buy it thinking you could get things like that for it, you can't.
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Summary: Bad quality/prize ratio
Review: The first impression i've got with this camera is weakness. Seems that if camera falls to the floor (more usual than you 're thinking),it'll be destroyed in million pieces. Plastics are bad and termination isn't good. Another big drawback is that it hans't any kind of optical zoom or in defect intechangeable lenses. The digital zoom is the least chance because you'll loose resolution and quality. A wide angle lens could be a good optional item. The photos aren't awesome, too dark and automatic modes are terrible ... Zoom is underpowered. I've got an SLR and the results and i dind't find any digital with their performance ( my SLR is a Yashica FX-3 , full manual). The best digital camera i've seen is the new nikon 5000 but for that prize i could manage a Contax Aria with Zeiss lenses.
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Summary: A wonderful beginner's camera
Review: Even though this is a beginner's camera, it is doing everything I want beautifully, except for the pretty useless digital zoom. I use my Pentax rangefinder if I want to use zoom. My Kodak DX3500 is a joy. It's very easy to use, the software is excellent, the prints are beautiful (as you'd expect from Kodak). I use it at least three times a week. I.E. I run outside to take a picture of a plant to send to my gardening e-mail buddy, download it, save it and e-mail it to her in about three minutes. I can take 30 pictures of my granddaughter and have them ready to show to my daughter when she comes to pick up the baby. I used a 64MB picture card for a trip to Arizona; I show those pics as slideshows on my family's and friend's TVs. I took a laptop computer on a month long trip to South Carolina, loaded the software on it, have all the photos saved on the hard drive; I took the laptop to my mother's nursing home to give her a slideshow. I have NO complaints about this camera. I MIGHT buy a more high end camera in a few years, but I doubt it.
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