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Summary: A wonderful digital camera
Review: I've owned this Kodak camera for almost two years and it is my first digital camera. It feels so comfortable in my hands from the first time I hold it. It takes great outdoor pictures and average indoor pictures with low light conditions. Most digital camera don't do well in low light situation. The best feature is the 28mm lens;hard to find in a point and shoot digital camera. I can cover more area with it.
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Summary: perfect first digital camera
Review: I have used this camera for about 2 years now. It was the perfect first digital camera for a budding photographer. I love the manual controls, especially slow shutter speeds.The flash is terrible though, no good for low-light typical indoor/outdoor shots. Though I did use it quite a lot for concert photography - slow shutter speed (.7 secs) and also used the flash and the end result was quite pleasing. Also, I have the wide-angle adaptor lens - forget using the flash with it! It casts a horrible shadow! No good! 3.1 megapixels suited me for a long time - although I didn't print a whole lot of the photos I took with this camera, the few I did print came out well at 8x10 and slightly larger. I am now ready to move on - my next purchase is the 4 megapixel Canon G3! But I will keep my trusty Kodak, as it has served me well.
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Summary: Excellent Value
Review: We have used this camera for over 2 years running on a daily basis without a problem. The pictures are fantastics and work very well for our website needs. The flash is not that great and is not reliable for dark settings. Other than that the camera is very handy and advanced. Based on my experience with this product, I would highly recommend a Kodak digital camera. For the price and quality, it is a 4 stars no doubt. If the flash was better, it would have earned 5 stars. Best regards
J @ Sadoun Satellite Sales
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Summary: great camera - still comparable to todays model
Review: Excellent photos. Simple and easy to use, yet still technically advanced and customizable for the hardcore group. Ability to change apeture, light intake , red eye reduction, b&w or sephia photos also.Can change an average Joe into a photography nut. The included rechargeable battery is great but I still wish you could use regular AA batteries in emergency situations.Auto focus is wonderful, manual settings need time to master. Sweet zoom lense. Good software. Able to upgrade the software AND the internal firmware via the kodak website. Included 16 MB compact flash will give you a max of 47 fair photos (sometimes more) adjustable to 32 great photos or 8 excellent photos.(the great photos are more than acceptable). Upgrade to the 128 MB compact card and the 290 great photos will have you smiling forever.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: This Is A Really Good Camera, And Produces Great Pictures As Soon As You Get Used To All The Controlls. There Are A Lot Of Settings For Different Lighting Conditions, Lighting Temperiturs, Apeture, Shutterspeed, Colour Saturation, And More. As Soon As You Get Used To It All, You Can Take Some GREAT Pics. The Flash Is A Little Weak, But You Can Plug An External Flash Into It via. PC Cable, And Nighttime Pics Come Out Great. The Best Digital Camera Short Of A Digital SLR.
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Summary: Poor in low light
Review: I owned a DCS280 and was very satisfied. The DCS4800 has all the features I want and all the manual controls. However, the automatic low light pictures are very disappointing. We use the autofunction to grab spontanious pictuers of our son. Needless to say, most are blurry. In addition, the eyeglass focus adjust or has fallen out with the setting out of focus. The pop up flash does not lock the flash in place. Small cracks have developed on the front of the camera case.
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Summary: excellent camera
Review: very good camera. well, it is too sensitive to light. We could not get good indoor pictures.
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Summary: A Fine Camera
Review: This is my third Kodak digital camera and is my favorite to date. The reason I like Kodak's is I feel the menus are simple to use and the build quality / functions of the cameras are excellent. You can use the 4800 in a number of modes, as a simple point and click mode, or for the more professional photographer you can get into aperture, light, exposure etc... The resolution at 3.1 Mega Pixel is excellent and when pictures are printed out using services like ofoto or shutterfly the quality is exceptional. The camera has a 3x Optical zoom which is excellent, I choose not to rate digital zoom as attribute of a camera. My only dislike with this camera is its size, there are a lot of smaller cameras out there, however I am not sure if there are many with the same kind of quality.
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Summary: Great for outdoor pictures; try something else for low light
Review: I owned a Kodak DC280 and loved it. Took great shots and the flash worked great. I gave it away and bought the DC 4800 expecting similar great photos. The ones with plenty of light are fine, nice and crisp and print nicely. The ones in low light just aren't as good. I think the "auto" selects a shutter speed of 1/8/sec which is crazy and impossible to take a good photo without a tripod. The flash of course helps but you have to be within 8 - 10 feet. Bottom line. It's ok for the money, particularly if you buy one used (like I did) but if you want to print 8 x 10's you may want to keep looking.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: This camera is amazing! It had everything we were looking for, 3.1 MP, 3x zoom, and rechargable batteries. Moreover, you can override the auto control and manually select the f-stop, ISO, shutter speed, color saturation, exposure, sharpness and exposure metering (center-weighted, etc...). It even allows for you to take black and whites (with 3 filter options, none, red or yellow) and sepia photos. It is certainly the most powerfull of the Kodak line, it is a shame they seem to be moving away from these features and going after the market share where people don't want all these options. That isn't to say that you can't just point and click... you can, it has auto-focus and auto exposure/speed controls... but I like the ability to override those, especially when I have backlighting or want to play with the focal depth. Oh, and another rare feature is that it has a video output jack that you can run to a TV to view your pictures on. This has come in handy when visiting friends or relatives and I wanted to show them pictures we had in our camera but didn't want to download them to a computer. The menu system is amoung the more intuitive that I have seen. All manual settings can be changed with just a couple button presses and I have yet to delete a picture by accident. Some options, like f-stop and exposure control can be controled from dials on the camera without even going into any menu. The battery is good, recently I took the camera out of town for a long weekend and forgot the battery charger. We took pictures at many events over a few days and just barely got by before the battery ran out. Of course, we have learned over time some tips on how to extend the battery life such as minimizing LCD viewing of pictures. The 3x optical zoom is nice but I would prefer a little more. I don't like the quality digital zoom provides, but fortunately there is a setup option to disable digital zoom so that you don't accidently use it. As close to perfect as it is, there are some minor gripes. The manual exposure control dial seems a little flimsy like it might come off one day, fortunately it is rarely used. Second there is a little door that you open that covers the USB and battery ports that also seems a little flimbsy. Also, the button you use to turn on/off the camera is a bit too close to the shutter button. If someone else is taking our picture, they invariably press the wrong button unless we make it clear which button to press. The flash is somewhat weak (although comparible to small film cameras). Another gotcha is that you have to press the shutter button half way down to lock in the auto focus, speed and f-stop settings before pressing the button the rest of the way down to take the picture. Although this is standard with nearly all but the most inexpensive cameras, it is something that you have to carefully explain to anyone else who you want to take a picture or the picture will likely be out of focus. But then again, it is digital so you can look at the picture right away and determine if it needs to be re-shot. Finally, I think that the 16 meg card is much too small for any type of vacation use. At the highest resolution but least compressed JPG, each photo is about 700-900 kb. We purchased an additional 64Mb card which are quite cheap now and have yet to run out of memory (and if we did we could go out and buy another from any electronics store). All in all, a great camera!!
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