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Topic: Digital Camera Question
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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 05-10-2003 01:56 PM
It is very tricky to find a "moderately priced" digital camera with good features, image quality, etc. Our sign company just purchased another digital camera for a salesperson we are about to hire. We didn't want to spend a fortune on the camera, but it had to be good enough to do survey work, etc. I did a lot of price and feature comparisons among lots of digital cameras and read a ton of reviews. Canon has some decent models and the Fuji FinePix F601 Zoom was tempting to buy.
The camera we purchased is a newly released Kodak DX6340 Easy Share model for around $320 (the model just hit stores this past week). It has a Schneider 4X optical zoom lens and 3.1 megapixel CCD. The camera has 16MB of internal memory and can use Secure Digital/MMC flash memory cards.
The camera has a good array of both manual and automatic controls for taking still images. On top of that, you can record sound and even video in Quicktime format (320 X 240 pixels). A 128MB SD card could capture about 10 minutes worth of video, provided you don't drain the batteries in the process.
This camera is flexible in the kind of batteries it can use. It comes with a non-rechargeble CRV-3 battery. We bought a NiMH battery charger and some AA size NiMH batteries to use. This model uses batteries slightly more efficiently than the Kodak DC4800 camera we've been using. Still, turn on the LCD display only when you need it.
Battery use has been my major gripe with digital cameras. In the need to be cutesy and small, most digital cameras have SHIT battery life. We had a Sony Mavica model with a 14X optical lens and LONG battery life. But the camera was designed more like a camcorder rather than a cutesy, tiny-ass gadget. It still pisses me off that one of my coworkers lost the thing.
Kodak needs to improve the situation regarding batteries use / recharging, etc. with their cameras. The main knock I have against the DX6340 camera is how Kodak tries hard to make it necessary to buy the $80 EasyShare Dock 6000. The camera doesn't come with a DC cable to recharge it, or even a battery that can be recharged. That's the big pitch for the EasyShare dock. You'll spend $80 more productively by purchasing a NiMH AA charger and batteries, a large capacity SD flash memory card and a USB multi-format flash memory card reader.
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