Kodak Easyshare M853 8.2 MP Digital Camera with 3xOptical Zoom (Red)

What started out as a nice camera (once I bought the separate memory card) died in a little over 1 year. I have 4 little boys; so I used the camera quite a bit however it got a LITTLE and I do mean A LITTLE bit wet and that was all she wrote. The pictures have this pink hue to them, the pictures that do not have fine lines all through out them...a nightmare. NOW I can't get the pictures OFF the camera. The software with this camera has always been a pain in the butt...it is a memory hog and nowhere as nice as other software out there. If getting SLIGHTLY splashed can ruin this camera so easily then it is not worth it. If that is not enough to stop you from purchasing this camera then let the pain in the arse, computer memory hogging software steer you away. Seriously, Photobucket has better editing then Kodak Easy Share software!

I got this camera from Target on Black Friday for a great price: $89. It also came with a nifty little carrying case (soft but still, it's a case), USB charging cable, and because it's an exclusive Target item (well, I guess in brick & mortar stores anyway) it came with coupons for free prints.The camera has a laundry list of features. Chances are you'll spend at least 30 minutes or more looking at all the different settings you can get with this camera. You can take 16:9 shots (perfect if you're viewing these on a widescreen HDTV) even panoramic settings. But the moment I viewed the photos on my computer I saw the camera's one major flaw: noise all over the photos.And by noise I'm referring to the "colored snow" that appears on a photo, which from my research is basically the pixels coming together to form the picture. This is normal in most cameras unless you're using the top of the line camera (like an SLR).I tried playing with multiple settings trying to get better pictures from it and while some tests were okay it wasn't fool proof. In the end it required way too much to get a proper setting from the camera to reduce the noise. And even when I did reduce it the results were normally a photo that was either too blurry or blown out highlights.Bottomline, great features but it fails in the most important category: taking high quality photos. In my book I'd rather have a camera with one button and takes great photos than a feature rich piece of electronics that takes crappy pictures.Don't buy this camera. For an alternative I've read great things about the Kodak V1253. More expensive but I guess you get what you pay for.

i bought kodak easyshare 8.2 mp digital camera i found it to be a great camera the photos are amazing the camera picks up on every detail would highly recomend to anyone looking for a good camera and the price cannot beat it as always kodak lives up to there name for quality with kodak you cannot go wrong hope this review is helpful