Kodak Advantix Preview APS Camera

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This camera is great! Seeing the picture right away has saved sooo much film. We often took 2 or 3 pictures of our child to make sure we "got the shot". Plus, with family living all over the country the reprint feature is super and keeps me from having to drive back and forth to the store to get film and reprints developed. Well worth the price. Perfect for families and scrapbookers.

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Summary: great camera
Review: This camera is one of the coolest cameras you will come across. I love how you can strike out pics you don't want and change the pic to panoramic or whatever after you take it. Its the perfect camera for a teen or adult. My friend has one, and us girls went crazy using it. Its the camera of the future and a wonderful investment.

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Summary: Perfect Teaching Tool for Beginning Photographers
Review: This camera is perfect for beginning photographers because it allows you to view the picture immediately after taking it. Here are the features:
1. Preview Screen: This helps a lot with issues of lighting, but the preview is not large enough to see small details, such as if someone's eyes are closed. Also, you can't see the preview clearly when you're standing in a brightly lighted area.
2. Cropping: After taking the picture you can preview the different cropping options and then choose either a close-up, a normal shot, or a wide shot.
3. Number of Copies: After taking the picture you can choose how many copies you want, from 0 to 9 copies. If you choose 0 copies you do not get to reuse the exposure, as with digital cameras. It simply tells the machine not to print that picture. The fact that the camera tells the machine how many copies to print can cause some confusion with film developers who are used to asking how many copies you want of the entire roll. However, the camera comes with a supply of stickers that can be attached to the film envelope to explain this to the developers.
4. Preview for One Shot Only: You can only preview and modify the last shot you took. Once you take another shot you cannot go back to previous shots. The worst part about this is that you can never see the last shot on a roll of film, because the camera rewinds it before you get a chance.

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Summary: Not a digital camera, but not bad APS.
Review: This is a pretty good APS camera, but nothing extraordinary. The 'preview' screen allows you to see a small, low resolution image of the picture you have just taken. From that glimpse you can decide whether to encode the APS film with a 'do not print' instruction to the processor, you can order multiple prints and you can change the format (like from std to panoramic). [Please be aware, though, that not all film processors have the equipment to process this extra data, and in many cases it counts for naught] You cannot store the image (as on a SmartMedia or CompactFlash card) to view later or to download to your PC. You can only look at the last photo you've taken and then only on the tiny screen (there is no 'video out' that would allow you to preview it on a TV or PC screen). However, as the price has fallen, this extra digital trick has become a fairly justifiable and certainly an innovative addition to an APS camera.

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Summary: Cool!
Review: This is a very cool camera. I am a scrapbooker (I have two small children) and this is right up my alley! I can take a picture, preview it and if it's a good one and I know other members of my family will want copies, I can select extra copies. If it's not, I can select 0 copies and the picture will not be printed. However, it is not erased. It still uses up film. You can also print titles on the back of the picture. How cool is that? Choose between panoramic or regular and it automatically prints that way during photo processing. The viewfinder didn't bother me any and I found the zoom to be adequate for my needs. I would DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS CAMERA.

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Summary: accessibility to developing
Review: When I took my first roll in to be sent to Kodak and developed it
came back with completely different pictures than I had chosen for the most part and the incorrect numbers of the three that they got correct. I have called numerous photo developers in our area and none have the capacity to do the developing in the store. Also the developing was far more expensive than any other film..amounting to approximately .89 cents per print. I called Kodak to see if there was a mail in way to develop these correctly and after many different calls and much research was directed to a company who will send me a form to order "envelopes" at 12.99 each, and I must order 5 of them at a time.
When I send the film in in the envelope they will develop the photos and, I assume, charge extra for the extra photos ordered.
The photos that I got were just O K...not the quality of my SLR cameras.
I like the display to be able to see the image immediately, but I expected that I would be able to review all of them at the end...not true. I would wait to buy this camera until the developing becomes simpler and accurate, and perhaps the screen a bit clearer. The viewfinder size seemed adequate to me.

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Summary: I just cannot find this cameera anywhere
Review: Why can I notfind this camera anywhere