Kodak Easyshare C300

I'm a big fan of digital cameras, loving taking snaps of my children as they grow up, on special days together and generally capturing memories to look back on as we all grow older, my husband is also a photographer so I guess it was natural that at some point our kids would show an interest in cameras of some kind. Christopher is only 3 (almost 4) but we thought for Christmas that we would ask his grandma to buy him a camera, nothing fancy, we'd envisioned one of those brightly coloured, chunky plastic devices that he could take a few fun snaps with, you can imagine our surprise to find she'd bought him the Kodak Easy Share C300. Kodak C300- The ...  Read the complete review

Since I didn't need a camera capable of taking beautiful, professional standard images, and frankly, I couldn't afford that anyway, I stumbled across the Kodak EasyShare C300. It's fairly bottom-of-the-range these days, with 3.2 megapixels, a 5X digital zoom, and a 1.5 inch (38 mm) LCD screen. It's aimed at digital newcomers such as myself, and it claims to make "taking and sharing pictures wonderfully simple". We'll soon see about that, as I took the camera on a proverbial test drive. GETTING STARTED On opening the bright yellow box, I'm presented with a plethora of instruction leaflets, the camera itself, USB cable and batteries, a ...  Read the complete review