Product Description

Simply want great-looking pictures? Then you need the KODAK EASYSHARE CX7330 Zoom Digital Camera.With the CX7330, it's simple to get amazing-quality prints - even as large as 11"x14" (28x36 cm) . Get in close and capture crisp details with the CX7330 3X optical zoom. Powerful and loaded with features, but easy enough for anyone to use. Easy-to-access scene modes for consistently great shots. You will get the shot you want, the way you want it. Catch all the action in the continuous video mode with audio capture. The CX7330 is part of the KODAK EASYSHARE System, so sharing your pictures is one-button simple. Just press Share. Unpack the camera and you're ready to go. Digital doesn't get any easier than this.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17166 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Kodak
• Model: CX7330
• Dimensions: 5.00 pounds
• Display size: 1.6

Features

• 3.1-megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 10-by-13-inch enlargements
• Retinar 3x aspheric all-glass optical zoom lens combines with 3.3x digital zoom for a total of 9x zoom
• Compatible with most Kodak EasyShare camera and printer docks; multi-zone autofocus; movie mode with audio
• Store images in 16 MB of internal memory; also compatible with optional SD memory cards (not included)
• Powered by 2 AA-size batteries (alkalines included, rechargeable NiMH recommended)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Kodak EasyShare CX7330 is ideal for the digital photographer who wants great photos from an easy-to-use camera. The CX7330 offers 3 MP resolution, a 3x optical zoom lens, 16 MB of internal memory, compatibility with SD and MMC memory cards, and a movie mode that continuously captures video up to the full capacity of your card.

Optics and Resolution
The CX7330 has a maximum resolution of 3.1 megapixels, for prints at 2,032 x 1,524 pixels (for 10 x 13-inch enlargements). It features a Kodak Retinar all-glass, aspherical 3x optical zoom lens, 3.3x advanced digital zoom, and a multizone autofocus system for crisp prints. It has a 35mm equivalency of 37-11mm.

Movie Mode In addition to snapping still images, the CX7330 can also shoot video with sound at a resolution of 320 x 240 and a speed of 15 frames per second. Unlike other digital cameras, on which video is limited to a few minutes, you can shoot as much video as you have storage capacity, either in the internal memory or on an optional memory card.

Scene modes quickly optimize your camera for common shooting conditions.

More Features

• Bright 1.6-inch indoor/outdoor LCD that makes it easy to view images, even in direct sunlight
• Automatic picture rotation
• Multizone autofocus easily handles pictures with multiple subjects
• Built-in flash with auto, redeye, fill, and off modes
• Print directly from your camera on any PictBridge-compatible printer
• Multiple scene modes: auto, sport, landscape, close-up, and night

Storage and Transfer
Images can be stored within the CX7330's 16 MB internal memory or on optional Secure Digital (SD) or MultiMedia (MMC) memory cards. The camera connects to Macs and Windows PCs via USB 1.1.

Power and Size
The camera is powered by 2 AA batteries (alkaline included; NiMH rechargeables recommended). It measures 4.0 x 2.6 x 1.5 inches (W x H x D) and weighs 6.8 ounces without batteries.

What's in the Box
The package contains the Kodak EasyShare CX7330 digital camera, 2 AA alkaline batteries, a USB cable, a wrist strap, and a custom camera insert for optional EasyShare Camera and Printer Docks.

Like all EasyShare cameras, the CX7330 includes Kodak EasyShare software for Windows and Mac, providing effortless transfer, organization, basic editing, sharing, and printing of digital photos. The software's exclusive One Touch to Better Pictures feature--which takes advantage of proprietary color technologies developed by Kodak--helps Windows users get vibrant, true-to-life prints from home inkjet printers while significantly reducing the trial, error, and waste usually associated with home photo printing.

Customer Reviews

Good photos, easy to use, some quirks, little manual control
For most people, 3 megapixels is all you need. And while I wouldn't have chosen the Kodak CX7330 for myself, my wife bought it for me to replace our old 3-megapixel Konica, and it's quite a capable little machine. Despite extensive photography experience for over 20 years, I'm surprised how much more I use it because I don't have to make so many decisions about the pictures I take.

The CX7330 takes great snapshots, just don't expect much manual control over them. Whether this is the camera for you depends on whether you want that control (in which case you should pick another model), or just want to take decent photos (in which case this one is quite good).

The camera body is not especially small and all plastic, but (other than the memory card door) feels solid and is comfortable to hold. The controls are very straightforward: choose one of five photo modes, or one movie mode, then press a button to shoot. Since the camera has a good lens and intelligent electronics, the results are generally very good, with much better auto-white balance than on many other comparable cameras. For novices or those who don't have or don't want to use a computer to process their photos, the Share button and available dock and printer could be handy, though they're not for me.

Low-light performance without a flash isn't so great. There is no way to force long exposures, the camera lacks an auto-focus assist lamp like Canon models have, and the lens is a bit slow. Startup and shot-to-shot times are decent, but not all that fast, and fairly typical of this class of camera. Battery life, using either NiMH rechargeables or the included lithium expendables, is fabulous, the best I've ever seen from a digicam using just two AA batteries -- and a huge improvement over many other battery-eating models.

The only control you have over the camera is to choose the shooting mode, set how the flash behaves (auto, forced on, forced off, or red-eye reduction), decide on a resolution (you have no control over how much compression the camera uses, just photo size), and set the self-timer or nice 3-shot burst mode if you want. You can adjust the exposure compensation to take longer or shorter exposures, but there's no way to set the shutter speed, focus, or f-stop directly.

One useful option is a 3-megapixel 3:2 ratio size, which makes shots that fit on the longer 4x6" prints from most photo stores, without needing to be cropped. The movie mode (if you're into that) is quite good for this sort of camera: 320x240 pixels with sound, 15 frames per second, with no limit on time other than the size and speed of your memory card. There is also a neat onscreen display of little "brackets" showing where the camera is focusing, though there is no way to change that other than to recompose your photo.

A few other quirks: Other than the image size, most other parameters (like flash mode) reset themselves when you turn the camera off and on. You can choose either to use the internal 16 MB memory OR an SD/MMC memory card (if present), but not both, i.e. there's no easy way to use an external card until it fills up, then switch to the internal memory automatically. You must make the switch using a menu, or remove your memory card. Finally, while the optical (lens-moving) zoom works all the time, the digital zoom (always a misomer; it's really "in-camera cropping") only operates if you have the LCD screen turned on.

So this is not a camera for serious pro or "prosumer" photography, but for carrying around all the time as a family snapshot camera, or as a backup when you just need to get the picture, it does the job well. And for the price, it's quite a deal.

This is great camera for a little price.
My girlfriend has this camera. The software CD works well with both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Don't understand why the other reviewer say that it's not compatible. Even if there is this problem, one can always goto www.kodak.com and download the latest software.

Uploading pictures is easy. Connect the USB cable that comes with the camera to the computer, then turn on the camera, the Kodak software automatically detects the photo transfer in a few seconds. Then, you just press "transfer all", it transfers all pictures right away.

Emailing picture is easy. Press email button, enter "from" your email address; enter "to" destination email address, then choose the pictures from right side and click "send". That's it! It is so simple. Of course, be sure you are online when you do this.

The picture quality is pretty good, better than a comparable SONY, which is even costier. I myself use the DX7440, which is a higher-end Kodak 4.0MP with full TV-quality movie mode. We upload pictures to Ofoto.com and print 4"X6", 8"X10" pictures. The colors are true, natural and not over-satuated.

I compare the photos taken from this to my DX7440, there is no difference for 4"X6" at least. My DX7440 does take photos in dark better since there are manual features for that purpose and the DX7440 is more expensive.

The movie mode is a nice extra since sometimes you really want to take some short movies and capture the moments you like to capture in motion.

I have two Kodak digital cameras and my girlfriends and some of our friends all use Kodak digital cameras. As long as it is manufactured after 1/1/2004, the cameras are fine since there is the extra of new Kodak color-science enhancement for the new cameras manufactured in 2004.

The Zoom len also works great. Taking close shots requires pressing a close-shot button otherwise it won't focus properly, just have to remember that.

This camera also works well with Kodak printer dock, the prints are laminated, and it makes the photos free from moisture attack and finger prints. Nice!

In conclusion, this is one great camera. Yet, for those who like to take better night shots and more movie features, get the LS743 or DX7440 or CX7530 or CX7430. These cameras comes with TV-quality movie features.

Dang!
I take a lot of pictures, but didn't want to spend a lot of money on a new digital....don't want to worry about it being lost or stolen. I bought this camera because it had gotten really great reviews from other users but was still really inexpensive. Maybe users who need a whole lot of features or manual controls wouldn't be happy with it, but the pictures I've taken so far have been excellent.

This camera is also very easy to use--nice, simple zoom feature that gets good closeups without having to be right in someone's face. I agree with other reviewers that the door where you insert the memory card seems VERY fragile, but otherwise it's pretty sturdy and compact.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a better array of features and such good crisp pictures in other cameras in this price range. If I like it as much as I think I'm going to, I'm also going to spring for the matched printer dock so I can print some of these nice photos. I checked it out too (so you don't have to) and it got equally good reviews across the board.