Kodak LS633

Opinion: I bought this camera for my wife and tho' she hasn't taken photos for a few years she picked up the 633 and started taking pics. as tho' she was a pro. Easy to use and top quality pics. She loves it.....but she will have to fight me for it!

Opinion: It costs less than 300 dollars and I think its quality is over its value.The OLED display is cool and the color of photos is very real. Lacking of details is its vital disadvantage. There may be some problems in KODAK's compressed algorithm.

Opinion: The first thing that strikes you about this camera is the screen on the back. It's huge (by LCD standards) and bright - new OLED technology and it seems to be well protected behind a window of mineral glass. Viewing angle is also huge where five people can crowd round a camera and they all see a good picture! Battery life is unfortunately no real improvement over LCD.

The first thing I noticed was that the white balance kept getting confused under low light and would cycle through a succession of hues! Forcing the WB to 'Tungsten' setting stopped it hunting but gave everything an annoying orange/red tint that you couldn't manually adjust out. So, lack of manual WB adjust is a minus (am I asking too much for 300GBP?).

I photograph musicians performing live and prefer not to use flash which is easily turned off by its own button on top of the camera - no wandering through layers of menus to do this which is good. I manually set the 'ISO equivalent' to mainly 400 which gives me better low light sensitivity than setting it to 'Auto' (I think it's got to do with the stage lighting of my subjects) but I reckon you need to experiment with the exposure metering mode between 'Multi Pattern'/'Centre Weight'/'Centre Spot' before you blindly trust the camera in every situation.

Movie mode is great with sound and built in speaker but audio frequency response is poor and 'soft'. I love the Video Out socket which allows you to plug directly into a TV or video for instant picture shows, but the quality is nowhere near as good as you would expect with patterning and interference on subjects with fine detail.

My conclusions are that Kodak have a good intuition about how a camera should work and that the LS633 is no doubt easy to use. Unfortunately I feel their expertise in the digital world is still a little under developed and their point-and-shoot algorithms not quite there yet. It is expensive for a 3.1M camera and there are better value models out there but I bet they ain't got a screen like this one!

Opinion: My first digital camera purchased after much consideration. Also purchased the 6000 printer dock. The camera is very easy to use. I was reluctant as first to purchase the printer dock although after printing the first picture was outstanded at the quality. The whole package from the camera to the printer dock and software is totally user friendly. The instructions are simple and very easy to read. The OLED screen is huge and fantastic. What more can I say than a truly outstanding complete package from Kodak.

Opinion: This is a truly point and shoot camera. The best thing about this camera is the number of IN focus stunning shots it produces, out classing many cameras twice it's cost. I bought this for the family to use and now use it myself. My Sony 717 has been sidelined as it canot compete with this camera producing sharp punchy pictures, every time.

Opinion: This camera is extremely easy to operate, has an excellent viewing screen due to the new OLED technology "organic LED " and produces excellent images. Compared to other digital cameras I have used and owned, this camera offers a vast improvement in battery life.

Opinion: OLED!!! Kodak's on a winner!
Don't Buy any digital untill you have checked this screen out! LCD is dead!
Very simple to use.
Battery life is exellent.