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Can someone help with a digicam?

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tuNaB2nroB

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I'm looking to purchase a digital camera, I found the Kodak DX4530 with the docking station for $389 at costco, but I'm not even sure if it's a good camera, cnet.com gives it good user reviews, but i'm not sure if it's a good buy. I've never purchased a Digital camera before. The specs for the camera are as follows:

Resolution and Zoom:
5.0 megapixels

Maximum resolution: 2588 x 1954 pixels
10x total zoom (optical x digital)
3x optical zoom
Equivalent to 38-114 mm on a 35 mm camera
Aperture range: F2.8-5.1(W) F4.8-8.7 (T)
Lens threads for 37 mm adapter
3.3x digital zoom
Shutter speed: 1/2 -1/1700 sec. with selectable long time exposure 0.7 - 4 seconds
Optical real image viewfinder
Focus system: multi-zone autofocus
Features and Benefits:

USB connectivity (USB 2.0 compatible)
LCD: 1.8" indoor/outdoor display
Quicktime movie mode: continuous digital video with audio capture, audio playback on camera
Movie length: up to 60 minutes, limited by capacity of external memory card and battery life
Internal flash
Flash modes: auto, red-eye, fill, off
Scene modes: auto, sport, night, landscape, close-up
10-second self-timer

Should I buy this or are there better companies out there? I figure Kodak is a camera company so it should be rather good...can some fellow anandtekkies' help me out here...

thanks
 
Just scanned the ISO ratings for that camera at dpreview. ISO rated at just 130-200? That would be way too slow for me! I shoot ISO 800 film because of the many dreary days here in the northwest. (My Fuji 2600 digital just has ISO 120 and can't handle it. I'm looking at least ISO 400 for my next digital.)
 
tuNaB2nroB


I would check out Steve's Digicam Review Website here, he basically has almost every camera on the market on his site, and shows a lot of pictures taken with each camera tested. I went through this site before I finally decided on purchasing a Canon S400 Digital Elph (I needed something fairly small and that was still on par with larger cameras' quality). It took me about a week to look at all the different models I was interested in.

Click on the link here (Steve's Digicam Reviews)

hope that helps 🙂
 
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