Kodak = great features, great pix, crap camera, crap software, crap customer service (Kodak Easyshare DX6340)

Member Name: 2shane

Product:	Kodak Easyshare DX6340
Date:	03/06/06 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: great features, great pix

Disadvantages: A corporate conjob - you betcha.

The build quality is garbage - very flimsy construction. The software is a conjob, rigged by Kodak and Apple Quick Time, they give you the basic software and then pressure you to upgrade to the premium software. This racket is supported by the firmware being set to only take movies in MOV format, and the files after full conversion in to AVI (RADTOOLS) and then WMV, with almost no discernable loss of video or sound quality, compress down to 1/7th their size.

Kodak and Apple do dirty deals for mutual kickbacks.

Online registration is a conjob, as "registering for warranty" also means that not only do you have to fill out a 72 question market reasearch survey where you have to answer all the questions; then your details DO get shared amongst all of the Kodak branches and their affiliates - so Kodak and their affiliates then start spamming. The opt out is a JOKE, meaning that you have to then opt out of every seperate affiliate and department.

Kodak is the apitamy of dirty deals in the fine print.

The customer service under warranty is absolutely appalling.


In a technical sense, the camera is very good. The build quality is junk, the software is sleazy and inadequate, and Kodak are a pack of corporate scumbags.

Summary: Kodak has the same out look on life as George Bush.

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