Kodak Easyshare Z700
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: I have never been an avid photographer, preferring much more to experience and enjoy the moment rather than fumbling around with a camera trying to get the perfect shot. This camera, with its ease of use and great picture quality, gives me the best of both worlds. I’ve had it for over 6 months now and have been very pleased with it. The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is for one piece of misleading advertising. The camera is touted as running on AA batteries, but when you read the manual you learn that “standard” AA alkaline batteries are not recommended. You must use lithium or rechargeable batteries instead. I also can’t make any recommendations about the software one way or the other. I did the custom setup and installed the USB drivers only, which work fine. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements to do my editing and am thrilled with the results.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: I’m fifteen years old, and photography is a major hobby of mine already. I had been using my father’s way-out-of-date 2.1 megapixel camera for about 2 years, and wanted an upgrade to a better camera. When I was searching, this was not on my list of cameras to buy. I was looking at ones such as the much more slim Sony Cyber Shot DSC-W5. I made sure to give my mom a list of all of the ones I wanted, since Christmas was approaching fast. When I opened my gifts and found the Z700, I wasn’t sure what to think, and I admit I may have been a bit ungrateful. From the package, it appeared to be clumsy to hold, because since I’m left-handed I tend to take pictures up-side-down so that I can hold a camera with my left hand.
The design of this prohibited me from doing that, because the grip on the side was a bit awkward and manufactured for right hands. It also appeared really bulky against other cameras I’ve seen, because the grip plus how far the lense zooms out makes it a big camera compared to others. It also runs on normal batteries, but it CANNOT use alkaline. They last all of about 5 shots. You have to buy either special batteries from Kodak, or lithium batteries, both of which are extremely expensive. With my first few uses, it was hard getting used to the large design, and the LCD screen was smaller than I had expected as well.
After about a month or two, I started getting used to it. Once I got past the size, I realized it takes very crisp pictures. The digital zoom is useless because it adds pixelation, but the normal zoom is very good by itself. The LCD pretty much washes out in bright light, but the viewfinder is very helpful. THe same happens in low light. It has a lot of settings that are found to be useful, such as night portrait, night landscape, text and documents, and self-portrait. The sports setting is also useful. It’s hard to focus on closeup stuff in auto mode, but the self-portrait option takes care of any closeup stuff. It is also a heavy camera, which makes it feel a lot more sturdy than some of the lightweight aluminum cameras now. The dial is a little hard to turn, and the buttons are a little hard to press, but everything is really easy to figure out, and you’ll be taking great pictures in no time.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Description: Take your memories to remarkable places. Get close to your subjects with 5X optical zoom. Get even closer with 4X advanced digital zoom (20X total zoom). Create unbelievable-quality prints up 20″x30″ (50×75 cm) with 4.0 MP. Get rich, vibrant color under a variety of lighting conditions with the exclusive KODAK Color Science Chip. Capture consistently crisp, precise pictures thanks to the auto-focus system with assist lamp.
With the exclusive KODAK Color Science Image Processing Chip, your pictures come to life just the way you remember it. A new high-speed digital processor chip, advanced algorithms, and hardware acceleration features let the Z700 make simultaneous, split-second decisions to produce rich, vibrant, true-to-life colors in almost any lighting situation. Each time you click the shutter, the KODAK Color Science Chip performs an instantaneous and advanced analysis of collected scene data to identify and adjust multiple factors that influence picture quality. Scene light source is detected and adjustments are made to capture bright whites and true, vivid colors under difficult lighting conditions - fluorescent, tungsten or daylight Scene content is analyzed for luminance, focal distance, subject matter orientation and color to determine the correct exposure and capture the natural details, accurate flesh tones, and rich colors you see in your composition.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: I bought this camera brand new 6 months ago. It has been used very lightly on birthdays and holidays. It has never been dropped and stored properly but now it is dead. Aside from my bitterness over it going dead so soon I would still give it a low rating because of how fast it goes through batteries. Two AA batteries would only last one photo shoot. It is relatively easy to use and the picture quality was good but this camera is not mechanically sound.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: I bought the Kodak Easyshare Z700 Digital Camera and Kodak Printer Dock a month ago and I am blown away by the beautiful pictures I can take with this camera and the ease of printing them with the printer dock. This is my first digital camera and I was afraid that with my limited knowledge, I would really goof everything up, but this camera is practically goof proof. The printer is equally easy to use. Don’t be afraid of this camera and printer if you have no experience with a digital.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: I had the earlier model of kodak camera and liked it. One thig about the kodak camera, they seems to produce high quality photo. We really like the picture. However, I am not happy about how fast we need to change the batteries. We can still use the used batteries for electric toothbrush, but not for the camera. The camera starts to shut off in a few seconds when the batteries do not have enough power for it anymore. It is very frustrating. We had suspected other defects, but as soon as we put the new batteries in it, it works fine. The older model went through a lot of baterries, too, but this one seems to be worse.
Kodak Easyshare Z700 Reviews: After years of using a few other cameras, I finally saw the light and bought a Kodak. The Z700 is a fantastic camera for the price. Optical zoom was important to me, as was size. While not tiny, this camera fits easily into my purse to capture those spontaneous moments my children provide. Uploading is very easy, even without the docking station and the clairty and resolution of the pictures I’ve taken is great, particularly with the selection of scenes like beach, party, museum, etc. I would highly recommend this camera to anyone who likes to take pictures of family and friends and make prints to share and frame.
Price: $192 to $355