Kodak EasyShare C875

Opinion: This camera is mostly used by my wife to photograph her elemenatry school science students as they work on lab excercises. Her class room has a combination of flourescent and natural light, and the Smart Scence mode nails the exposure just about every time.

I also use the camera when dragging around my SLR is impractical. Takes very very good pictures.

Opinion: Purchased this as a low cost pocket camera, not expecting much, and it surprised me. On paper the specification looks pretty good, but my experience with Kodak has usually left me a little disapointed especially with sensor performance (usually a bit on noisy side and not sharp).
This must be one of the good Kodak models, as low light performance and resolution are reasonable and definitely better than other Kodak pocket digitals I have used.
Movie mode is reasonable too.

Opinion: Picked this up as a manager's offer at Curry's Digital for £90 and was amazed by the versatility and features. The 5x zoom is excellent. Within a week I took it to the US and took over 1000 shots and have some brilliant results. However, it soon became apparent that it could not cope with high contrast of bright sunshine and shadows and many pictures taken on the Auto settings were far too dark. I found myself having to use manual control after a few days which was a bind (my wife used our Canon A85 on Auto with no problem). If not for the exposure issue I would have rated it 4.5 for image quality.
Also I found that, when using the camera as a video that it would not focus or keep focus.
I really liked the look, feel, design and features of this camera. However, I couldn't cope with it even at the bargain price so I took it back and came away with a Fuji A600 that has fewer features and only 4x zoom. Will review that when I've given it enough of a trail.

Opinion: I've owned and used this camera for 6 months now. I have a carrying case that attaches to my belt. I take it with me pretty much every day as I'm involved with an environmental watch group. I don't enjoy the results when using the flash indoors, but as a fill flash outside, it works pretty good. With plenty of light, it's a great camera. It's price, x5 optical zoom, stitch feature and manual controls are it's shining attributes. I've dropped it a couple of times (powered down, lens in) and it keeps on working fine. The presets work pretty good too. Glad it was a gift; I'd probably pay the extra money for a better built Panasonic or Canon. All in all, a favorable experience.

Opinion: I have owned this camera for 3 months and have used it in many different settings (outdoor, indoor, still, action, low light etc.). I am very impressed by the quality of the pictures and the many camera features which, by the way, were not all mentioned in the DPreview. The focus is fast even in low light (something very important to me) and the on-camera controls are so easy to use. I personally like the joystick control on back of the camera - it gives much better tactile feedback when navigating the feature-full menus. In my old camera, I could only delete pictures one-by-one which took a long time because the each picture had to load into buffer before you could delete it. In the C875 you can quickly select the pictures by placing a check mark next to thumbnails and with one click (and then another for confirmation) do batch deleting. Copy and crop are available on camera as well. Plus, I really like the "auto-improve" feature that balances the picture for contrast/brightness/saturation. I could go on and on - basically, it's a great value and makes for a great gift to just about anyone who likes photography. I have been involved in photography for 14 years both for personal enjoyment and as an event and wedding photographer. I am very satisfied with using this camera when I do not want to carry along the big gear with me. I am amazed what you can get now for $200. A few years ago this would have been a $600-$700 camera!

Opinion: It is an excellent compact camera after owning it for 4 months.Sharp detail,colorful image.Good quality through 5X zoom range.The Panaroma mode is an excellent function and easy to do a beautiful super wide picture! I have done a lot of impressed wide pictures during my travel in Guilin China where mountains are located side by side closely.Conclusion,it is very worth to buy and own it.In my opinion,it performs even better than others that cost twice price as C875.I love it and will take care of this camera. Finally,I would like to appreciate KODAK to produce such a good camera.I hope they can keep doing good camera and keep using Schneider's Lens.

Opinion: After owning the canon A640 10MP and a Pentax ist DL DSLR I must say the Kodak C875 is a awesome camera.
The image quality is much sharper with awesome texture, then both mentioned camera's and the detail of the c875 excels against the canon A640 and Pentax IST DL.
Images are well exposed with great definition, detail, sharpness and color. Granted the Pentax ist DL will excel in low light, I am comparing the C875 and the Pentax IST DL in normal day light performance.
As we all know DSLR's have features that the pocket Point and Shoot just dont offer.
The C875 does not like after market rechargeable batteries and will run after market batteries down fast. The Kodak recharge battery (green) and charger yields about 200 shots threw out a days outing.
I rate the build at 4.5, only because the grip is so flat and the "no neck strap mounting points"
The build quality is sold.
This camera is a bit slow to start up and shot to shot is a bit slow but compare the image quality to high end DSLR cameras and this pocket point and shoot will win every time. "no over smoothed noise removal"
very minamal to no blue fringing around high contrast areas.

Opinion: i love this sweet little camera. i carry it with me everywhere. i have taken thousands of pictures and the pictures i take with this one are excellent. i have three other digital cameras.

Opinion: I bought mine as a 'carry anywhere' cam for those times when I don't want to carry my DSLR. This is a little larger than the slim pocketable cams but it has good features and produces a very good 'out of the camera' image.

I like the manual control and the x5 optical zoom is much handier than a x3.

As will many cam's of its genre it does not have a viewfinder, but even so, all my outdoor shots have been crisp and blur free, well exposed and with strong punchy colours.

I took a lakeside shot with this cam and my DSLR. The DSLR had the advantage for landscapes of the 28mm wide lens but in terms of picture quality on a small print they were quite close. It was only when the shots were compared side by side that I could see which was which and for the typical C875 audience, that would not matter anyway.

I did a nice low light outdoor church / sunset scene and then lifted the shadows in post processing - looked good on a 5 x 7 print.

Indoors, I have found exposure fine and the flash to be powerful - I never take indoor pictures without flash - and can't understand the obsession with those seeking to get a small sensor non-flash shots and still expecting quality images. I use the +/- EV to adjust indoor exposure if needed.

I have had a LOT of cams and usually find some fault that keeps me moving to the next cam, however, I am happy with my C875 and expect to keep it.

You will want to get re-chargable batteries for a durable and cheap power supply. The AA's are handy. Mine collapsed on a short break and I just popped into a local shop and bought two more.