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4.0 stars
"Great point-and-shoot digital camera w/ lots of options"
Pros: Easy-to-use situational lighting menu - 20 different settings
Clock stays set after battery removal
Easy to hold on to
Buttons spaced far enough apart
No USB cable or EasyShare dock required if your PC/Mac has a card reader
Good video qualityCons: No speaker to hear audio from video clips, but you can hear the audio when watching them on a PC/Mac
Summary: I bought this camera because it was the right price, I can hold on to it easily, and most importantly, it does everything that I thought a digital camera should do. All of the menus are easy to scroll through. After I bought it, I opened it up and started playing around with it. I didn't even read the manual that came with it. Video quality is good at 640x480, and at fullscreen in Quicktime on my 17" widescreen laptop. If you want a close-up of something, get as close as you can to it, because the zoom tends to make everything grainy the more it's magnified. The close-up setting on the top dial works very well; be sure to use the right and left arrow keys to adjust the light. I really like the green, yellow, and red hands that come up after I take a picture. These are for image quality and subject. Green means good, red means terrible/iffy. This is where the OK button shines in SCN mode on the top dial. Play around with the different settings. While scrolling through them, it tells you what each setting is good for. Even then, the red ones sometimes come out ok. The top of the LCD from left to right tells you whether the date stamp is on, flash mode, resolution, pictures remaining, and internal or external storage (when in picture mode). In review mode there is the image quality hand (green, yellow, red) number of picture/video you're looking at, and storage type. The play button in the bottom right tells you that you're in review mode. These things can be removed by pushing the display button to the right of the LCD, whether you're in picture/video or review mode. The storage type can be selected, but external is the way to go. A 1GB SD card holds something 800+ pictures at its highest resolution (8 MP). At under 100 bucks, it's really hard to beat for what you get. Highly recommended!
No viewfinder
Seeing LCD in bright or direct light is difficult
Where to buy
Kodak EasyShare C813:
$199.99
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