The interaction and placement of the controls are quite good. There are a few key rubber finger and grip affordances to make the shooter feel in control. The only cheap part is the zoom lever. It's a small horizontal lever, that has to be kicked way over to one side or the other, and the time delay to lens movement is sluggish. The overall construction of the entire body and finish is very nice. There's plenty of standard features like burst, time-lapse, etc. to keep most digital camera enthusiasts happy. A real nice package bonus was the 4, AA NiMH rechargeable batteries and charger + 16MB storage card. At least Kodak was thinking about the entire user experience.

Oh, the software interface is rather silly. The childlike icons and metaphors for album creation, etc. makes you create a parallel cognitive hierarchy model for what is essentially folders/files on your computer. Something more straight forward with clear icons and interface is all we want.


Excellent first digital camera   December 4, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I did alot of research on digital cameras before settling on this one. I purchased the DC265 with the lens kit (fun to play with) and a 32MB card with PCMCIA adapter. The PCMCIA adapter is excellent and works very easily with my PowerBook G3 (OS9) and Windows 95 and 98 laptops I also use. The card appears as a hard disk on your desktop and the photos can be edited, copied, deleted, renamed, etc. right on the card - VERY COOL! If you wanted to you could use the card to back up just about any type of data, not just photos! Photoshop plugin is also useful. You will also want the optional AC adapter. Photo quality is excellent even on the lowest resolution and superb on the highest! The only cons are a (sort of) noisy lens movement on zoom, and the fact that closeups don't come out framed exactly right since the lens and viewfinder are a bit off from one another it seems. After a few practice shots you will easily figure out how to compensate for this, however. You will get used to the slight digital delay when taking a photo, as mentioned in other reviews, but it is not a show-stopper. LCD is very useful and the batteries (and included charger) are great and last a long time, even with the LCD on. At low resolution/best quality setting you can easily fit 200 pictures on the 32MB card! This camera wins my vote unless you can afford one of the $2000 models!


top quality 35mm prints from your PC   November 26, 1999
DMP (Roanoke, VA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful

I've had this camera for 4 months, so I think I know it. PROS: GREAT picture quality for 5x7 or 8x10 prints (rivals my 35mm Canon EOS, which I have sold on ebay). Small but solid feel to it. Now comes with NiMH batteries which last a long time, and comes with a plug-in charger. Actually is a great looking camera-will impress your friends. Has its own internet-upgradeable OS, easy to use, but gives you many options for shooting, much like a full featured 35mm SLR. CONS: Tiny optical viewfinder, takes some getting use to. LCD screen fine for reviewing, but unlike Sony is just about unuseable for taking shots. Must get use to 2 sec delay from pushing shutter button till picture is actually taken.