Digital Camera Resource Page: Reviews and Info

Carol Taylor (2/21/98):
This camera illustrates one of my (and a lot of toher people's!) pet peeves with computer equipment - what is state of the art today is outdated tomorrow.

When I bought the DC50, it was the best of the lower end cameras available. Now, it's near the bottom of the heap, from what I have seen of other cameras.

This camera is pathetic in even moderately low light situations, with a majority of pictures unusable even after some major tweaking in Photoshop 4. The images take *forever* to download to the computer, it sucks up batteries like there's no tomorrow, and add on stoarge is ridiculously expensive (As in, I could buy one of the Sony cameras for the cost of a card).

That said, it's better than the Apple Quick Take I upgraded to it from, but considering I paid $200 (Canadian) for the Quick Take, and almost $1,000 (Can.) for the Kodak, it's not THAT much better.

King Chung Huang (11/26):
The DC50 produces medicore images. Although it has high resolution, image artifacts are clearly visible in the image. The camera's speed in compressing each image also varies directly with the amount of power left in the batteris. The less power left, the longer you have to wait for the images to compress. The camera also takes quite a while to download images to the computer. It takes an average of 6 minutes to download a full camera. Users may also find that the viewfinder is not very accurate.

Steven Zaretsky:
The Kodak DC50 is a great starter digital camera. My yearbook staff (high school students) have quickly learned to take great pictures with it. I expect that nearly 50% of this yearbook's pictures will come from the DC50. One warning: it doesn't do well in low-light conditions -- I've found that I can't use it to take photos in our school gym.

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