Kodak EasyShare C603 Digital Camera (6MP 3 x optical zoom) User Reviews:
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Summary: Snappinly good
Comment: I bought this camera for my father-in-law as he keeped borrowing mine ! At 63 he has never owned a digital camera and is a bit of a technology dinasour . However he ttok to this like a duck to water.
He carries with it everywhere and finds it so easy to use. Its so easy to adjust the settings for close up, long view etc just turn the top button. The zoom is a doddle and you really just need to point it and press. Instantily it takes great clear photos- no matter what your camera skills are .
Its a good portable size and the screeen on the back is a good size too .
As for downloading the photos thats esy to and you can install the disc easily on your computer- we have the latest windows packages.The photos are easy to store on the computer.
The batteries you get with it only last about half an hour but I have found that with most cameras.Instead I got him some cheap rechargable batteries from aldi ( it takes 2 x aa)and these last brillantily.The battieres do use up quicker if you constanily use the screen.
Overall all I would highily recommend this camera but my only word of warning is get a camera case as unfortunately the back screen got broken without one. My father-in-law was so upset we had to buy another one as he now insists no other camera will do. If it can turn a 63 technaphobic dinasour into david bailley its definately worth having !
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Summary: Kodak c603
Comment: This camera to sum it all up is the ONLY camera to buy when you are starting off. After experimenting with a number of cameras, i found this one the best by far!! - so easy to use
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Summary: It's great
Comment: I got this as a replacement for a demised Olympus . I'm impressed though mine does have 7.1 Megapixels
Got it at the end of July and have used it a lot .
Use of flash is still a little tricky :( not always successful.
No problem at all with the Easyshare software
Picture quality - I would say excellent
Ease of use- excellent
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Summary: Disappointed
Comment: Having had a Kodak previously, and being very happy with it - I was disappointed when I bought this as a replacement.
On the plus side the video is very good, and it has all the usual features
However, I found it very slow taking and processing pictures (even for a digital), and in even slightly poor lighting conditions it took quite grainy pictures or doused everything with a very harsh flash.
There are settings that can help reduce this, but to my mind they should be the default setting, rather than a lot of fiddling when you are getting a few friends together for a snap, it rather kills the moment, fiddling with settings.
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Summary: Great camera for beginner like me
Comment: For my first digital camera, I have certainly not been disappointed in purchasing the C603. It has a good sized crystal clear 2.4" screen and I had it working pretty much straight out of the box. The 6.1 mega-pixel resolution (2848x2134) is mind blowing and it has a very easy to use user interface. I haven't got around to reading the manual yet, but I have already discovered plenty of nice features. The A/V out is great for hooking up to the tv - especially useful when you're taking a video of yourself and need a preview - the video itself is pretty good too, although I find you cant zoom whilst in video mode, and the resolution is only 640x480 in video mode (although this should be plenty, and besides, its a stills camera not a camcorder so this is just an added bonus). Movies are recorded in .MOV (quicktime) format.
Lots of crazy features like long exposure time (up to 4 seconds) or consecutive shots (up to 4 autoshots) make for some interesting photos, as well as timer delay.
I've had a play with some of the other camera modes (closeup, self-portrait etc) but I really wont get to test these out until next week... for most photo's, the auto mode works fine, and captures crisp sharp images with excellent colour definition. Interestingly the camera also comes with monochrome or sepia colour modes, which makes for some nice 'ye oldie' style photos.
The camera hooked up to my girlfriends (bless her heart for letting me harass her with the camera all weekend) windows XP computer fine without the need to install drivers, and the photos and movies downloaded pretty quick onto her machine. Most importantly for me however, is that the camera is detected on my Linux machine (Debian w/ 2.6.18 kernel) although the transfer seems a lot slower under Linux (it may need tweaking)
There are some fallbacks which you will need to cover - the camera only has 16Mb internal memory, so it is worth investing in a SD or MMC card. I bought a 1Gig SD card and that holds up to about 900 pictures - or about 45 minutes of video.
Also the batteries that came with the camera are bog standard alkaline. They lasted me about an hour of toying before the camera would no longer power up on them, so unless you want to spend the rest of your life buying batteries, I'd recommend getting some heavy duty rechargeable batteries - I bought some Energizer rechargeable (2500mAh capacity - pack of 4 + charger for under £20) and so far one pair of batteries have lasted the whole day.
overall, its a great little camera with plenty of features.
Oh yeah, its fairly lightweight too.
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