Linked by Jean-Baptiste Queru on Wed 21st Sep 2005 16:29 UTC
As a photographer, with some high-end equipment, I used to look down on point-and-shoot digicams, putting them in the same category as camera phone, i.e. not capable of taking any picture worth keeping. I was wrong. My experience with a Kodak CX7220 (sells for about $70), graciously provided by Geeks.com, turned out to be unexpectedly positive.
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2005-07-08
Agreed. Megapixels aren't the be all and end all. Pixel size comes into play, white noise, thermal currents, etc.
Most people can get away with a 3mp camera (Canon eos D30 as an example of a good SLR as opposed to a digital compact unit) in terms of the numbe of pixels (temporarily ignoring the problems listed above). I'd recommend that other a digital compact for a variety of reasons, as long as you're interested in photography. If you're not, then grab the digital compact.
That said, I'd avoid Kodak digital cameras - the software is simply atrocious. I remember upgrading my father's Kodak software last Christmas - what a bloody joke. Upgrading screwed his system so that it wouldn't recognise the dock. Kodak's help pages were as useless as tits on a bull. I spent countless hours editing the registry, reinstalling (on a dialup line, and you can't download the actual .exe file, you have to connect to their servers to do it, wasting download bandwidth). Nothing worked. Even rolling back the registry didn't fix the problem. Sorry, can't remember Kodak based on that.
Dave