Power problems! (Kodak Easyshare DX3700)

Member Name: 5beasts

Product:	Kodak Easyshare DX3700
Date:	02/01/04 (74 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use, Compact, Great photo quality

Disadvantages: Charging - or lack off, Components keep dieing

The DX3700 is a very easy to use little camera - compact and well designed. The Easy share software is great and makes downloading picyures very easier, even for the computer illiterate. It also gives high photo quality.

However...

There is a really problem with charging the camera. The charger cuts out after about 10 or 15 minutes charging - this appears to be a problem with the make, rather than just our camera, as my husband's uncle has expreienced the same problem with his camera. One has to lift the camera up and down every few minutes when it is charging, to fool the docking system into charging it a bit more. We took the camera on holiday with us, it lasted for about 30 minutes, then died. I've also used it for work, and after about 5 pictures the battery goes flat. One can't replace the batteries with normal batteries either. The screen on our first camera also burnt out. Kodak kindly replaced it for us, but said that it was charging it that had caused it to burn out. It's not very robust either. We're now on our third camera!

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