for the el cheapos

You cannot give a camera a bad rating, because the flash fails to illuminate a subject over 10-20 feet away. Camera flashes aren't powerful enough to do that. Get a clue.

As for this camera itself, I have tried it out at Best Buy, as we are getting ready to buy a new camera, and it is down to this one, and the Kodak LS743 4MP. Basically they are both the same camera, but the LS743 has a slicker design, and is more compact. But other than that, they are both great cameras.

If you are going to review technology, *please* have some idea about it before you write anything. Otherwise, you will just end up making yourself look foolish.

I bought this camera and I love it! I checked out just about every camera in the 3 and 4 MP range and this one has the best quality picture and it is one of the easiest to use in the $200-$300 price range. I would recommend any Kodak for its ease of use, but I bought the 4MP (cx7430) so I could crop and enlarge my pictures without loosing photo quality. The 3MP (cx6330) was the other camera that I looked at in depth, but I found that the 8 x 10 pictures were blurry even without cropping.

I would also recommend purchasing a 128MB card to store pictures. The internal memory only holds about 9 pictures on the best quality. I purchased the 256MB card, which holds about 190 pictures...way too many pictures, but it was cheaper than the 128MB card when I bought it.

Overall, great camera! I'm glad I bought it!

I was given this camera as a going away gift when I moved to brazil one year ago. The camera was fine for about 6 months. It has not been exposed to any harsh elements or dropped. I did not use anything but Kodak recommended american bought batteries. But in the summer the camera just died...I replaced the batteries with brand new ones a few times (even batteries Kodak recommended) but the camera will not turn on. Now I have a camera that DOES NOT HAVE POWER and no longer works. I even still have pictures in the camera! I contacted the company and the best Kodak can offer me is service which costs more than to buy a camera of the same quality. Overall I am quite disappointed, with the camera and Kodak company.