Customer Reviews

Kodak EasyShare CX6200 2MP Digital Camera

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4 star:		(21)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

This digital camara is a very nice camara. You can take photos and videos with this camara. This camara comes with a program for your computer to load photos and videos from your camara to your computer.

You can take photos by looking in the viewfinder or the screen. Looking at the screen to take photos is more fun, but I get better photos with the viewfinder and the screen uses more power.

The camera came with Kodak batteries, but I would recommend rechargeable Energizer AA batteries with a charger ($1$$) because they can last up to 205 photos before you need to recharge the batteries.
The Kodak batteries only last about 140 photos before you need to BUY more batteries.

The camera comes with 8MB internal memory and a memory card slot. You can also buy memory card for the camera 16MB,32MB,64MB,128MB and 256MB memory cards.
The internal memory is if you plan on taking 9 photos in the best photo quality with the best (3.2) setting you can take 10 photos before the memory is full.
The better photo quality can take about 18 photos before the memory is full and the good setting can take 30 photos before the memory is full.

You can also turn the flash on and off, a 10 second timer for the shutter, you can change from color to black & white or sepia.

Overall this is a very nice digital camera.

Situation: Camera for precocious 5 year old

Experience: Kodak, Fuji, Nikon & Canon digicams ($300-$1+k range)

Rating Justification: It's interesting how some folks will take a $2 knife an attempt to perform precision brain surgery with it. That's a humorous way of saying this camera - at $75 sale price - is a great introduction to digital photography. Kodak has produced at least 3 top-flight consumer/prosumer cameras and is known for the quality of their image and color capture software (see various camera reviews on www.steves-digicams.com & imaging-resource.com). Kodak also makes some serious digital equipment for top-flight professional photographers (DCS-1, I think). So anyone implying that Kodak doesn't understand digital photography isn't providing the whole story.

This camera follows a time-honored, age-old Kodak tradition to get the non-techie into cameras as cheaply and easily as possible. Thus the Easyshare line, a line of cameras designed to make going from image to memory book as easy as possible.

This camera is an ENTRY level camera in the Easyshare line. The camera is the digital equivalent of Kodak's old Instamatic - that single-focus, 1 film-speed mainstay of KodaColor glory. The CX6200 is small, simple and shoots what it's pointed at. It takes reasonable pictures w/the color Kodak is famous for. And it does this for about $0.30-.70 per 4x6 print with a cheap printer. If you are looking for a take-it-anywhere camera that lets you see what you've just captured, stores 75-150 pics and won't cause tears if it's dropped/lost, this will work.

Problems? Sure - it doesn't zoom, can't adjust exposure and could break its plastic case if it's dropped. It also isn't a good camera to "learn" photography on (not enough features). But for some consumers, it's the right tool for the job. [NOTE: I would suggest this camera to those already using SD/MMC somewhere in the household; just pass down the smaller-sized flash memory to whoever in the family gets this camera. I would also ALWAYS recommend a memory card reader over installing the software. I just don't like software I don't otherwise need cluttering up my computer.]

Like any inexpensive item, there are many things it doesn't do. But as an entry-level, memory-capturing scrapbook filler, most users will be satisfied. Consider this a cheap intro that should provide results and pleasure at not-too-great a price. Are there other choices? Always. Be a wise consumer. Tired of shopping? You could DEFINITELY do worse than this camera as a beginner.

Make up your own mind - check those web sites out.

And I'm buying one TONIGHT for my 5 year-old.....

I would recommend this camera to anyone who needs/wants a camera that is really easy to use. We purchased this camera for my 10 year old son 4 months ago as an alternative to a disposible camera. He was able to use the camera immediately with very little assistance and has taken hundreds of pictures since. He loves viewing the pictures immediately to determine if it is a good picture or not. The picture quality is very good (equal to our Nikon 800.) The battery life is also very good, but you will probably want to invest in rechargeables. If you can live without zoom capability and want a simple; reliable and low cost camera that takes good pictures, the Kodak 6200 is an excellent choice. Note: Ecost is a good site to get inexpensive memory.

I was looking for a digital camera for my almost 12 year old.
I've had digital cameras for years, and expected to find something simple, like an older model I had. Very hard to find! Only other simple models I was finding were strange brands I never heard of (and suspected wouldn't last long).
My alternative was a film camera - I don't want to get into the
cost or hassle of getting film developed any more.
So far, quite happy with this simple little camera. 2M is quite large enough for what he'll use it for. Tonight, he was photographing the sunday comics... 8-)

For a hundred bucks you can't beat this little camera. It's up and running within minutes of leaving the box, and setting it up to transfer the pictures to a computer was very simple (in fact, user error was the only misstep in the entire process; make sure those cables are snug...).

The picture quality was surprisingly high, which is a nice bonus.

My only quibble is the internal memory isn't very roomy (8 pictures on "Best" quality, 30 on "Good," which is the lowest). But, media cards are getting quite cheap nowadays, and since I planned on purchasing one anyway, it's not that big of a deal (the 128 MB card will hold 149/595 respectively).

Overall it's a nice beginner digital camera -- enough options to take good pictures, not so much that they'll overwhelm the user.

I wanted to purchase a digital camera for my daughters ages 15 and 17. It needed to be simple enough to use with a short learning curve on the software and cheap enough to buy that I wouldn't mind them taking it everywhere or be upset when the day comes that it is lost or broken. I read all the reviews on this site and they were SOOOOOOOOO helpful. I decided on this camera based on that information...bought some insightful accesories also mentioned in the user reviews and packed them up upon arrival for Christmas morning.

The cameras were a huge hit. They were wonderful. Without reading the directions the girls had taken pictures, e-mailed them to friends, edited out the red-eye, made movies, screensavers, slide shows, and used up the extra batteries (I need to buy the rechargeables...do it right away.!!!)all this activity in under 24 hours. Since the kids will not be printing out any or many pictures the 2mega pixel camera is just fine. I am satisfied that we will never have to wait to see their photos, pay for film, wait for developing and labor over photo albums ever again.

We are very happy with the camera. Thanks to all who reviewed this before me...it made all the difference.

1st off, price. This camera is less than $100 bucks for 2-megapixels. Is 2MP enough you may ask? Yes. At least for the avg. joe that wants to take pictures to store on his computer or for fun. I've used this for the past 2 weeks and I love it. My brother can't stop asking me to borrow it. The picture quality is great. It takes pictures at 1600x1200 (I think this is 8x10). I don't really plan on printing any but the usual 5x7 or 4x6 will come out just fine. The video quality however is mediocore. What do you expect from a cheap camera, the best of both worlds? Nope, I bought this primarily for the camera feature and it works wonders. I have a digi-camcorder for my videos anyways. One other thing is I didn't like the fact that it doesn't have a lens cover. I'm afraid to scratch it but I keep it in a case. I know Logitech came out with a cool wallet digi-cam but it's 1.3MP and it's around 70-100 bucks. I'll take the 2MP. This camera is very simple to use as I learned all the features within 5 minutes. I'd recommend this camera for the simple enthusiast!

This is a good camera, simple to use. Easy to use menu, easy to use camera. I was able to take all kinds of pictures without using the cd manual. Problems with the Easy-share software...it won't work. I would recommend, especially if using XP, to just go to the website and download the driver only, not the easy share software. Use other ways of pulling the pictures off the camera, it should show up as an extra drive. Don't even use the cd, but be sure to download the drivers first. It is easy to use, and fun too. The screen works great and the camera is a good size.

This is my first digital camera and at $100, I figured at that price it was worth trying. It is well worth the price, the camera takes good pictures overall. It takes excellent pictures if the lighting is good, but gets pretty grainy on indoor shots if the lighting is not great. All the outdoor shots I have taken have come out excellent and require little to no color correcting. The camera has a video option with no sound, and you can record video up to your amount of memory. If you use the LCD review screen often, it will eat up the batteries quick. Using the viewfinder to take photos will help battery life significantly. The camera has no optical zoom and I found pictures using the digital zoom to be quite grainy, so I don't use it for the most part. The camera also doesn't have a lens cover, which would be a nice thing to have been added to the camera.

As another reviewer said, if you have Windows 2000 with SP4, you might run into problems with the Easy Share software. I had trouble installing the software on 2 different machines. Just make sure to get the newest software from the website (version 3.2 at time of this review). Also, make sure you are logged in as Administrator, I had problems installing the software logged in with an account with administrator priveledges.

Overall, if you are looking for a basic point and shoot digital camera that takes good pictures, it is well worth the money. I have tremendously enjoyed the camera.

This review is written from a value-for-money perspective. It's surprising what you get for such a low price. One of the good point of this camera is that it's also quite suitable for night photography (a tripod is needed though). Just simply turn off the flash, put it on a stable platform and adjust the exposure time upwards to +2 (in the menu settings). You can capture the ambience and dynamics of the city at night (illuminated buildings and streets, traffic etc.) or even firework with this. The results & colors are surprisingly good (a flash would ruin such nightscenes). To the contrary to some of the reviewers wrote, you can turn off the flash for the entire session, so it's not disabled for one photo only. The flash would go back to its default status ("on") when you turn off the camera. However, the camera comes with "hidden" costs in that you will have to buy rechargeable batteries and memory cards.

Pros: easy to use, good color balance, adjustable exposure time, basic but good functionalities (for the price), acceptable video quality considering the price

Cons: no protection for lens, digital zoom is a bit disappointing, no built-in rechargeable batteries, internal memory is very low (only 8MB), LCD screen is small, the sofware is indeed full of spyware (as a previous reviewer had wisely noted)