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| Announced: | Aug 5, 2003 |
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Average rating:
4.21
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Opinion: Image quality excellent, low light focus very good, battery life excellent (200 shots on one charge) light ,easy to use,docking station makes it a doddle to use, minimized feature set but enough for most (ie if it moves...sports mode etc) good movie mode with sound, as good as the very best hi res compacts but MUCH CHEAPER. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (much better than dx6440 despite its features)
Problems: no problems, build seems flimsy at first but has proved very robust, LCD not brilliant but good enough, I reckon its an underated bargain!!
Opinion: My review of a substandard camera -- Today I bought a Kodak EasyShare DX 4350. A 5 megapixel camera for only EUR 299! According to the salesperson, that means you get "five MILLION real pixels!".
So, I took it home, installed the software (which took ages), and sat down to play with the camera. I returned it to the shop within 2 hours.
I took a selection of pictures, some indoors, some outdoors, flash, no flash, etc. The best picture I got was so bad, it only managed to look crisp and in focus when I resized it to 1200x1000 - or 1.2 MP, not 5.
Pros:
* compact
* light
* 32 MB internal memory and uses cheap SD flash cards
* automatically rotates pictures the right way up (90 degree angles)
Problems: Cons:
* flimsy housing
* extremely long shuttertime (NOT the 1/1700sec advertised)
* no manual settings, except EV
* must manually set EV to avoid getting a badly lit photo
* flash takes ages to charge
* can't use alkaline batteries; only lithium and NiMh
* 2 excruciating seconds between pictures
* the release button doesn't work by simply pressing it, but you have to let go of it as well. the timing of this seems to matter in some way.
* "shutter sound" is actually a beep. and there's another beep as well, don't know what that means.
* very small, optical viewfinder
* W/T zoom buttons too close to viewfinder, because of compact size
* must remove flashcard compartment cover to access USB port
* no paper manual
* the bundled software installs "backweb" (spyware)
* cannot be used as webcam
Opinion: its great
Problems: none
Opinion: I was able to use the camera immediately with little or no
instructions. The text on the camera is helpful.
Problems: I had to learn how to use pictures with the Email feature.
After reading the instructions I was able to meet my needs.
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