Kodak a Great Camera

[kodak1948]

I am another Kodak user, I have just recently purchased a Kodak P712, and just love it, some day I will go to a SLR, but for now, I am able to learn and grow with this camera.

[googlit]

Kodak's been a great company since its inception. George Eastman was a genius.

My first digital camera (when they were first coming out) was either an Apple or a Kodak, don't remember which. It held a whopping 16 pictures. Small, pixelly, artifacted pictures. It's come a long way since then.

[Reellady]

I love it! I have had it 6 months. I am learning also. I have been on Flickr since October having a blast. In the future I may want a DSLR, but for now I am trying to make my Z730 jump through all it's hoops!

[parnellapril]

I got a P712 for Christmas from my hubby and it is great. I also some day want a DSLR, but we don't have the money right now. I am hoping to get a Nikion D80. But for now, I love my P712. It has alot of the same featutres as a DSLR. I just love taking pics of my kids with it.

[*Roxy*]

I love my p880, its great fun, but i find that when taking the pics in 8mp the memory capabilities arnt as good as i would want them to be...but maby im just being greedy with my image storge haha
Would be great to hear from anyone else with this cam
Rox

[PCYarrow]

I have a Kodak EasyShare Z650 which I really like for now. I have just purchased some lenses for the camera and can't wait for them to arrive so I can try them out. Although I really don't know what they will do but I'm excited about learning.

Although this may seem like a stupid question I still feel the urge to ask. What is a DSLR?

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by PCYarrow

Although this may seem like a stupid question I still feel the urge to ask. What is a DSLR?

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask So, a dSLR is a Digital Single Lens Reflex. It's like a normal film camera, but instead of using film, it has a digital sensor in it.

And welcome to the site PCYarrow

[Josh Miller]

A bit more expanded on dSLR, it's is "like a normal film camera" but also int he sense of any Digital camera is. Theprimary difference is that SLR camera have a mirror that takes the images you see comming through the lense and reflects it up to the eyepiece. The result is that you're seeing what the lens sees as the lens sees it. When you press the button, the mirror is quickly lifted out of the way which si why the eyepiece goes black when using an SLR. This is the primary difference and advantage (though this advantage is slowly being made obsolete by things like LCDs in the eyepiece.

The other more generic difference, si that SLR's ususually have a wide variety of interchangeable lenses. These aren't just nessesarily attachments to an existing lens but often will be a complete removal of the lens to be replaced with another one. Also for the most part SLR camera allow the ability of manually focusing the camera. Most modern SLRs, especially digital ones, also have a setting for automatic focusing. This is of course useful because it's generally faster than auto focus and it can be focused on what the photographer wants it to be focused on, not what the camera thinks should be the focus.

SLR camreas also generally allow more control over various settings such as shutter speed and aperature though many modern non SLR cameras feature these settings as well.

I have an SLR film camera but not a digital one. Eventually I plan to upgrade to the Sony Alpha since it's compatible with the lenses I allready own for my Minolta.

[maikeru]

I just received a little red C190 for Christmas and I must say I'm loving it. I'm thinking about getting a Z981 in a few months just so I can experiment some more with DSLR type settings. I should have mustered up the nerve to start posting by then.