Kodak EasyShare Cameras

[santuitman]

Hello All
Heres the deal. My wife and I have had an Easyshare CX6330 camera for ~ 3 years. We use the easyshare software to manage our photos. My wife does most of this and is very happy with it. Our camera has served us well but is starting to show its age, especailly with some drops on pavement and sand. We are thinking of another Kodak as it's what we are used to and so we won't have to change photo managing software. It seems like there are a ton of Kodak models now so I was hoping someone might have so experiance with them.
Currently I'm thinking of these models C763, C653 or C613.
Thoughts, anyone?

Thanks in advance

Brian

 

[eelw]

I'm interested in the Z1275. 12MP and 5X optical zoom. But heres the kicker, it supports 720p video. Hopefully I can get my hands on it next week.

 

[quackagator]

Originally posted by: santuitman
Hello All
Heres the deal. My wife and I have had an Easyshare CX6330 camera for ~ 3 years. We use the easyshare software to manage our photos. My wife does most of this and is very happy with it. Our camera has served us well but is starting to show its age, especailly with some drops on pavement and sand. We are thinking of another Kodak as it's what we are used to and so we won't have to change photo managing software. It seems like there are a ton of Kodak models now so I was hoping someone might have so experiance with them.
Currently I'm thinking of these models C763, C653 or C613.
Thoughts, anyone?

Thanks in advance

Brian

Check out this site http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1011

 

[umbrella39]

I am very pleased with the Kodak Z712 ES

Great camera with tons of great features. In addition, you can use a 49-55mm adapter to hang nice Wide Angle or Telephoto lenses. You get get one for about $200-$225 depending on where you look. Well worth the few extra bucks and just like the other ES cameras, it is super easy to use and takes really nice quality photos.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

We are thinking of another Kodak as it's what we are used to and so we won't have to change photo managing software.

I thought the Easyshare software worked with any brand digital camera.

 

[santuitman]

Hello all and THANKS!!!
I appreciate the replies. While we were out this weekend my wife found the Kodak M753. Apparently it's a newer model wqith a rechargable li-on battery. She liked so much and was able to use it right away in the store so we just bought it. Now hopefully we can finda spare charger or spare abbtery cheap. It charges on USB but if you're on vacation there must be another solution.
Again thanks for all the replies!!!!!

Brian

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: santuitman
Hello all and THANKS!!!
I appreciate the replies. While we were out this weekend my wife found the Kodak M753. Apparently it's a newer model wqith a rechargable li-on battery. She liked so much and was able to use it right away in the store so we just bought it. Now hopefully we can finda spare charger or spare abbtery cheap. It charges on USB but if you're on vacation there must be another solution.
Again thanks for all the replies!!!!!

Brian

You can get a USB-wall adapter chargers, well, i know they exist because my gf's ipod has one

 

[santuitman]

Hello
Thanks for the USB-Wall charger option. We didn't get very good life out of the battery so far but it might be that we didn't have it all the way plugged in. I think we are going to get a charger for the KLIC-7001 battery as we bought a spare and that way we won't be tying up the camera while we are charging a battery.
In case anyone is curious this is a nice camera in comparison to our older one. Some of the things we really love are the bigger lcd, the ability to take a picture straight from review mode, the different ISO modes (most of which we haven't played with yet) and the speed of start up. So far the only things we don't like is the only charging option out of the box was usb (it would have been nice to get a wall wart too) and ther is no viewfinder. You don't have a choice if you were trying to save battery power.

If anyones interested in anything else I'll try to answer. It seems hard to get answers out of Kodak sometimes.

Cheers

Brian

 

[OdiN]

Every easyshare I've seen was junk.

Dunno if they have gotten any better.

 

[santuitman]

Hmm
We had the cx6330 and it's been great. It's taken all of pictures for the past three years of two children being born, many trips, two cruises and lots of everyday life. It's been dropped (while on) on the grass, in the sand and on the pavement. On the pavement it was hard enough to eject the batteries and was still working well. In the sand the lens got a little "crunchy" but after blowing it out some it still worked. The final blow was a good fall onto the lens in the pavement hard enough to put a good sized divot on the lens housing. It actually still works but doesn't sound too good. Aside from some things that I personally didn't like it's been great.