1. 6.1-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 14-by-19-inch enlargements
2. Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 3X optical zoom lens
3. 2.2-inch display; movie mode with sound
4. Store images in 32MB of internal memory or on optional Secure Digital memory cards (memory card not included)
5. Powered by rechargeable EasyShare lithium-ion battery (included with charger)

Customer Review :

DX7630 Used Camera Review

I took a chance and bought this camera because it was very similar to two other Kodak cameras I have had in the past that used the same type of battery and media card. Unfortunately, both of them had been dropped, the auto on/off mechanism was damaged and they didn't work again after that(the last one just recently dropped after working perfectly for almost 5 yrs). They took great pictures and videos. I love the battery life of these cameras, I don't ever plan to buy a camera that uses batteries less than this type.

I looked for a camera like this because I needed it in a hurry as I was going on vacation soon and did not have time to learn to use a new camera. I am very pleased to say I am happy with the camera's performance. It handled exactly as the other two cameras and the batteries and media cards I already had worked perfectly . I took several hundred pictures and they came out great ,as they should have, based on the setting used. The videos came out great also.
For a used camera, it is in excellent condition. The price was well worth it.
I would recommend a Kodak EasyShare camera with these features to anyone looking for an easy-to-use camera that takes great pictures.

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Great pocket digital! Too bad for the poor reviews!

I've had this camera at least five or six years with no problems! Sorry to hear about some customers having battery latch issues ... I have had none. This camera takes great pictures, as the following true story illustrates: About three years ago, my brother and his wife borrowed my DX7630 to take some graduation pictures of their daughter in different indoor and outdoor settings. After taking several pictures they went to a local Walmart photo studio to have copies made. Well, at first the Walmart photo rep was hesitant to make copies for them because she said the pictures looked like they were taken at a professional studio and they were not allowed to make copies of them. The girl actually made them show her the card from the camera to prove they had taken the pictures themselves. (true story) I was mighty proud to know that those pictures had been taken from my little Kodak camera!!!

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Bang for the buck!

It is a very good point and shoot camera with a rugged case and easy to use. I would recomend getting the charging dock for added convenience.

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My latch broke after 4 years of use

This came takes good quality pictures and is easy to use.

It also works perfectly with the broken latch, so i do not see the reason for complaining about it as much as people do.

My latch broke about 2 months ago- by the hands of my husband non the less and he isnt exactly the guy that treats everything with a gentle touch. So I can not even complain about the manufacturing quality.

For todays time there are significantly better cameras that cost less than what i paid for this camera - around 450 with a 1gb card.

So for the time when it came out and for the service it is still providing it is great, but now in 2008, clearly i would purchase something else.

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Love it!

If you can't already tell I love this camera. I am a complete novice so I needed something "easy" but still wanted beautiful pictures, of course. I've had this camera for 6 or 7 years and have just one complaint. My battery latch broke also, and that's why I gave it 4 stars. It just broke last year though, so I've lived with it. Because of that, the battery compartment door would come open by itself at times and the battery would fall out. Really inconvenient because then you would have to go through resetting the time and date...etc.

I took it on my recent honeymoon to Tahiti and you wouldn't believe the colors it captured. Absolutely amazing for a fairly inexpensive camera.

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1. 3.0 megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality prints up to 11 x 14
2. 3x optical zoom and 3.3x digital zoom for 10x total
3. 16 MB internal memory with slot for adding MMC and SD memory cards
4. Connects with PCs and Macs via USB port; compatible with optional EasyShare Dock II
5. Powered by included lithium-ion battery (CRV3)--NiMH rechargeables recommended

Customer Review :

OVERALL UNHAPPY WITH PURCHASE

The camera worked just great for the first three weeks that I had it. I bought it because it was exactly what I had before (that one wore out). After three weeks the flash stopped working. I checked the manuel but didn't get anything useful. I won't take it to be repaired as it would probably cost me as much as buying a new one.

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Kodak Easy Share is Just that...

I had a camera like this for many years and I dropped it and it broke so wanted to replace it and the one I got works just fine. I like that it has a viewfinder so you don't have to deal with not being able to see the screen in bright light. You get what you see. Good uncomplicated camera.

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good camera, terrible software

The camera is easy to use and the quality of the pictures is very good. Getting the pictures out of the camera and into your computer is another matter. The software is very un-intuitive, lots of "albums" and "gallerys" but all we wanted to do is get the photos into the PC. The "Help" file is not much help and Kodak's webpage essentially says to read the manual. Now I know why Kodak is going down the tubes.

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9 Years later and still going...

We purchased our DX4330 as soon as it hit the market due to rave reviews.

At first we babied it as it was a $300 camera.
Years later I take the camera on ski trips, it's the designated off-roading camera.
Has survived 2 vehicle roll-overs, one it was filming.

As far as an old camera goes, The quality is still on-par with the "so-claimed" 8MP $50 cameras you can buy today, with many more features.

The exposure and shutter timing features still put this old camera ahead of the pack.

I have had an issue or two after years of abuse. Some people report when turning on their DX4330, it hangs and shuts off. This is generally due to a bunch of dirt and grit being jammed down the focus mechanism on the lens. I find blowing it out, or minimal cleaning it out can fix this problem quickly.

Only other issue so far, when connecting the camera to a computer with the USB cable, it sometimes errors out or does not work. I believe this is due to all the stress placed on the connector over the years.

At this point, with the price of memory, the better alternative is just to stop using the internal memory, and pick up a 2Gb card, and card reader. The 16MB of memory provided is out-dated at this point anyways.

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Total Love

When it come to ease of use price and phot quality this camera is it.


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1. 8-megapixel digital camera captures enough detail for photo-quality 16 x 22-inch prints
2. 5.8x optical zoom; 2.5-inch high-resolution LCD display
3. New RAW file support, with JPEG and TIFF capture; RAW editing with Kodak EasyShare software v5.1 (included)
4. Includes high-resolution electronic viewfinder and hot shoe flash connector and PC flash sync (built-in flash also included)
5. Powered by Lithium-ion battery (battery and charger included)

Editorial Review :

The Kodak EasyShare P880 has a professional quality wide angle lens for enhanced creative capability. Capture images with clarity and detail using 8.0 MegaPixels of resolution. Share your creations with one-touch simplicity. Contrast & Sharpness - high, normal, low First burst mode - Approx. 2 fps, maximum 12 images in standard JPEG mode at full resolution Time lapse burst mode Adjustable Auto and Manual Exposure - Program mode (P) - Camera sets optimal shutter speed and aperture combination; Aperture priority mode (A) - Choose aperture, the camera sets shutter speed; Shutter priority mode (S) - Choose shutter speed, the camera sets aperture; Custom mode (C) - Allows you to create your own capture mode Auto/Manual/Macro Focus modes 2.5 inch LCD (6.4 cm) indoor & outdoor LCD with adjustable brightness settings Shutter speed - Automatic at1/2-1/4000 seconds, Manual at 16-1/4000 seconds Self-timer - 10 seconds, 2 seconds On-camera video editing, including trim, cut, split, merge, fast forward, and rewind Built-in electronic-flash EasyShare compatible - Dock is optional Weight without batteries - 17.6 ounces, 500 grams Dimensions - Width 4.5 Height 3.1 Depth 2.4 inches (115 80 60 mm)

Customer Review :

Incredibly aggravating!

It's such a shame this camera is so infuriating to use.

There's nothing optically wrong with it. The lens is fantastic. The sensor is incredibly good. When the camera is working, it's a pleasure to use and delivers lovely photos. I find program mode works the best. Black and whites are beautiful. ISO 400 works perfectly for action photos in bright daylight. Battery life is fantastic.

List of severe problems:

Preview histogram is completely useless. Photos are always much brighter than histogram. The photographer has to guess how much underexposure is needed to compensate for the misleading histogram feature. I hate having to correct the camera 2 or 3 times because a histogram with nothing on the right 1/3d still winds up being badly overexposed. Didn't Kodak take their product out into the field to test whether the histogram gave accurate information? It would have taken 5 minutes of parking lot photography to reveal this inexcusable shortcoming.

Highlight clipping warning system behaves the same way as the histogram. Seemingly small, well controlled highlights become massive areas of blown out overexposure when the photo is taken. It's awkward and aggravating to have to correct the camera 3 or 4 times thanks to this half baked feature. I want to expose to the right for a strong, bright signal, but can never trust the P880's weird, uncalibrated metering approach.

Power switch is completely useless. Camera shuts down right when I'm ready to take the picture. I'm constantly fighting to keep the stupid camera on and missing shot after shot after shot after shot after shot. Power switches should not cause rage and disappointment. They are well known electronic components. Why Kodak decided to use a rotating switch directly in contact with the shutter button and put a "favorites" setting I have no use for on the same ring is a mystery. I hate this camera's completely unreliable power switch design. I want it to stay on, not turn off over and over and over when I'm trying to enjoy photography. This is the only consumer electronics device in my life that is incapable of staying on. It's a fatal flaw that makes me feel nothing but regret that I opted for a "prosumer, high end" camera that totally fails to work 3 years in. I mistakenly presumed spending more on a camera would mean better quality. Wrong.

Time lapse is completely useless at night or in low light. It does not allow exposures longer than 0.5 seconds in MANUAL MODE. I can understand it objecting if I'm trying to do 11 second exposures every 10 seconds, but why can't it give me at least 4 seconds? What is the reason? Kodak needs to let the user have full manual control of all settings and allow full functionality at all times. Even if I wanted a series of 16 second exposures, the camera's firmware should be bright enough to just wait 10 seconds after processing each photo. The 0.5 second limit still applies with a 30 second delay. It's this kind of poor interface that ruins photography and makes me want to give up. Sometimes I want to use f/8, ISO 50, and more than 0.5 seconds, but the camera won't let me.

Aperture priority and shutter priority are completely useless, unless the goal is getting bad exposures. I bought this model for those features, but never use them. I can't use them because I have absolutely zero faith they will work at all.

Video is completely useless, unless the goal is 640x240 video blown up to 640x480. My Canon point and shoot from 3 years earlier was able to deliver crystal clear 640x480 video using all the pixels. Kodak apparently believes blocky, interpolated video is good enough. Why put in the video feature if it doesn't live up to the product's advertised claims? I bought the camera to ENJOY having video functionality with its nice lens. Now all I feel is cheated and disappointed.

Infinity focus is completely useless. The vast majority of infinity focus photos are completely blurry. It's so annoying to have to find something else to prefocus on when the subject you want won't lock in. Seems Kodak didn't bother to test this feature in real life situations. Why does the lens motor try to focus when the camera has been informed to simply focus at infinity? I don't understand why infinity focus is so difficult and elusive. Why put the feature in if it fails to work over and over and over? Terrible engineering! Pathetic. Ridiculous! Why, when infinity focus fails to work, does it default to focusing as close as possible to the camera, then taking the shot? Shouldn't it go the other way?

Super macro mode is bad. It offers no white balance choice. I don't mind setting white balance. I wouldn't mind if it defaulted to Auto. But why take away user control for a pretty important aspect of digital photography? There's no exposure compensation option either! All super macros in daylight become bluish, overexposed, and mediocre.

The scroll wheel behaves oddly. Moving it one click often activates it 3 clicks in the opposite direction. I have to repeatedly correct the camera's poor interface. The lack of fine, intuitive control is very frustrating.

Raw format offers nothing compelling, except revealing how pathetic the camera truly is deep down. It's shocking to see how much noise and blurriness unprocessed files have.

By the way, I'm writing this in anger after quitting a seemingly simple photo session I mistakenly thought the P880 could handle. I was wrong. I was wrong to buy this awful product. I wish I never did. I hate it!

If Kodak had told me the truth, I would not have chosen to buy this camera. Here's some honest ad copy they should have used:

"Switches itself off at the touch of a feather!"

"You want Aperture and Shutter priority? You got it! But they don't work. Just try it and you'll understand."

"Auto white balance always errs on the side of sickly yellow!"

"USB 2.0 was standardized in 2001, but we're sticking with USB 1.1!"

"Miss more shots than ever with the powerlessness of Kodak."

"Feel the bitterness."

"You'll eventually want to smash it."

It's hard to believe how many problems this camera has. I bought it specifically because it looked simpler than others. I wanted the manually operated zoom lens to avoid lens mechanism errors plaguing other brands. I wanted aperture priority to set it as desired and simply go out and take nice pictures. The camera failed to live up to my reasonable expectations.

I remember my early weeks with the camera, getting mad at how it consistently made wrong photographic choices. Exposures were regularly blown out or massively underexposed. Colors looked wrong. Things I thought were so easy in the world of Canon point and shoot photography were beyond Kodak's abilities. I never use full Auto mode. It is completely useless in all lighting situations.

Eventually Program mode solved my problems, but I wasted so much time trying and trying to get the camera to simply make decent exposures of well lit subjects that the bitterness, loathing, frustration, and disappointment linger on 3 years later.

The P880 is a tragic product. It's 95% of the way to greatness, but that missing 5% is a constant source of vexation. At least I didn't buy it early at full price.

I intend to destroy the camera eventually. I cannot in good conscience sell it or even give it away to others. That would violate the golden rule, something Kodak would do well to reflect upon.

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Almost my dreamed camera

I am shooting with D70 for many years now. Well, we are going to have a family vacation which doesn't allow me to haul my D70 stuff. So I'm keep searching for a smaller and lighter camera with excellent range but cheap as well. All of sudden I saw this one in a private company they buy stuff from bankruptcy companies like CC. He got 3 of them either demo or returned units. I grab the nicest one. After shooting with it I'm very pleased with the pictures and handling. The exposure is accurate. I always have my own settings on D70. Later on I found out that my custom settings doesn't work on Kodak. Kodak exposure system is dam accurate. That's the best I had. It balances the bright area and shadow area very well. The battery life is superb. I use EVF all the time and the battery just keep going without any bar decease. Amazing!

Concerns:
* A little bit big for my camera bag. I have to squeeze it a little bit for the sake of odd positioned(but very functional) EVF.
* Lens not as clean as prime lens, but better than most of the DSLR kit lens.
* Wrting time to SD card is kind of slow in seconds. I tried a 20M/s card but not quite satisfied yet.

In all, I feel very lucky that I go this camera. I'm thinking of getting rid of my D70 stuff now.



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Excellent camera

I have owned this camera for 3 years now. I purchased it refurbished from the Kodak website. This camera takes incredible pictures in all types of lighting. I can assure you that this camera is very sturdy. It has been to the ocean, taken pictures in the rain, bumped around more than once. Recently this was accidentally dropped it on the floor from a distance of about 4 feet. It broke the USB cable, but the camera was not affected at all! Also it is good for taking pictures in cold weather where the battery ran down fast in other cameras I have owned. The manual settings give you much more control as well. I'm thinking of getting another Kodak that is lightweight and can be kept in my purse, but doubt it will compare to this!

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P880 avoid

My P880 started resetting after 3-4 months. I thought it was battery needing recharging. When I finally realized it needed repair, it was out of warranty. No its almost unusable. I'll never buy Kodak again.Kodak Easyshare P880 8MP Digital Camera with 5.8x Wide Angle Optical Zoom

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Nice camera, but tragic flaw (autofocus failure)

I have an extremely lightly used P880 camera, which is cosmetically flawless, having never been dropped, scuffed or even sneezed at. But it decided to stop focusing. Apparently this is problem with this and maybe other models. Kodak has a well-designed web site for channeling customers down the road THEY want to channel them. BUT, the entire Kodak experience leaves much to be desired. The only option is an open-ended repair bill for a camera that should have been recalled. I packed my Fuji 645 half way around the world and back, through the most rugged terrain imaginable. I got hit by a motorcycle in the streets of Saigon and dented the case...still works like a charm. And, the Pentax K1000 I bought in high school works as it did 30-years ago. Never had a chance to take this Kodak anywhere. Guess I should be thankful it crapped out here rather than on the road. I am beyond disappointed and, you guessed it, will never purchase a Kodak again. But, the brand, like GM and Chrysler, will live on in my memory as a mark whose glory has faded. Rest in peace, Kodak.

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1. Kodak EasyShare Z981 14MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 26x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Lens and 3.0 Inch LCD
2. 8 Gigabyte SD Secure Digital Memory Card
3. Carrying Case - Memory Card Wallet
4. Package of LCD Screen Protectors - Flexible Mini Tripod
5. Cleaning and Care Kit - BONUS!! 25 Free Quality Prints (promo code# on invoice)

Editorial Review :

Bring your world closer for everyone to see. The Kodak EasyShare Z981 digital camera is where creativity and versatility come together. It zooms in faster, wider, and closer than ever, giving you sharp, steady shots you'll be proud to share. Kodak's Share button lets you tag pictures directly from your camera for uploading to YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, and Kodak Gallery sites, plus e-mail too. And its unique vertical shutter release and detachable grip give you the flexibility to go from horizontal to vertical shots with ease. From dramatic wide angles to the convenience of ultra-zoom, the Z981 delivers extraordinary performance.

KIT INCLUDES:
* 8GB SD MEMORY CARD.
* CAMERA CASE.
* MEMORY WALLET.
* LCD SCREEN PROTECTORS.
* MINI TRIPOD.
* CLEANING KIT.
* 25 FREE PRINTS!!!

Customer Review :

easy to use

This easyshare camera is easy to use and takes great pictures. I got mine from Jersey Camera. It arrived promptly, but I did not receive all the items listed. I contacted Jersey Camera by phone since they did not reply to my email and was informed that all items were sent. I am pleased with the camera, but disappointed in the customer service I received from Jersey Camera. I will not buy through Amazon Marketplace again, but will continue to purchase directly from Amazon.

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1. Kodak EasyShare M575 14MP Digital Camera with 5x Wide Angle Optical Zoom and 3-Inch LCD
2. 8 Gigabyte SD Secure Digital Memory Card - USB Memory Card Reader
3. Lithium-Ion Battery Pack - Digital Camera Case - Memory Card Wallet
4. Package of LCD Screen Protectors - Flexible Mini Tripod
5. Cleaning and Care Kit - BONUS!! 25 Free Quality Prints (promo code# on invoice)

Editorial Review :

The Kodak EasyShare M575 digital camera features a unique stylish slim body with a 14MP 5x wide optical zoom and a 3.0" LCD. This smart camera has Smart Finder with Face Recognition, Smart Capture, and features the Smart Share destination tag to YouTubeTM , Facebook, Flickr , Kodak Gallery, and email via the Share button for upload when you connect to your computer.

KIT INCLUDES:
* 8GB SD MEMORY CARD.
* MEMORY CARD READER.
* BATTERY PACK
* CAMERA CASE.
* MEMORY WALLET.
* SCREEN PROTECTORS.
* MINI TRIPOD.
* CLEANING KIT.
* 25 FREE PRINTS!!!.

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