Product Description

The elegant EasyShare C603 from Kodak has all the latest functions in a compact and funky format, and is suitable for all the family to use.Part of the EasyShare range, the C603 has a resolution with over 6 million pixels and a 3x zoom to capture crisp, clear images. Kodak Science of Colors technology adds that extra quality to your pictures.To facilitate photo taking, the EasyShare C603 has 13 scene modes and no less than 3 colour modes, as well as picture-enhancing functions built in to the camera, such as digital red-eye reduction, reframing, detection of blur, and cancellation of the delete function. The C603 is equipped with a large, 6.1 cm LCD screen, which allows you to monitor your shots whenever you want.Simple, elegant and compact, the EasyShare C603 will not disappoint.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8949 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Kodak
• Model: C603
• Released on: 2006-09-17

Manufacturer's Description
Point. Shoot. Smile. When you take pictures with the Kodak EasyShare C603 zoom digital camera, it's that simple. No hassles, just beautiful pictures. That's because the C603 has features that take care of the details so you get bright, vibrant, beautiful pictures you'll love to share. It's that easy. And that incredible.

The C603 has 6.1MP for exceptional quality prints up to 50x 75cm and 3x zoom for capturing all the actoin close up. To make sure you get the best pictures there are 13 programmed scene modes, red-eye reduction and on-camera cropping. And you'll enjoy your pictures on the 2.4" indoor/outdoor colour display with auto picture rotation to make viewing easy and a clever undo-delete feature to ensure you always keep your best shots. You can capture VGA quality video at 30fps with sound too!

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Customer Reviews

It's great
I got this as a replacement for a demised Olympus . I'm impressed though mine does have 7.1 Megapixels

Got it at the end of July and have used it a lot .

Use of flash is still a little tricky :( not always successful.

No problem at all with the Easyshare software

Picture quality - I would say excellent

Ease of use- excellent

Disappointed
Having had a Kodak previously, and being very happy with it - I was disappointed when I bought this as a replacement.

On the plus side the video is very good, and it has all the usual features

However, I found it very slow taking and processing pictures (even for a digital), and in even slightly poor lighting conditions it took quite grainy pictures or doused everything with a very harsh flash.

There are settings that can help reduce this, but to my mind they should be the default setting, rather than a lot of fiddling when you are getting a few friends together for a snap, it rather kills the moment, fiddling with settings.

Great camera for beginner like me
For my first digital camera, I have certainly not been disappointed in purchasing the C603. It has a good sized crystal clear 2.4" screen and I had it working pretty much straight out of the box. The 6.1 mega-pixel resolution (2848x2134) is mind blowing and it has a very easy to use user interface. I haven't got around to reading the manual yet, but I have already discovered plenty of nice features. The A/V out is great for hooking up to the tv - especially useful when you're taking a video of yourself and need a preview - the video itself is pretty good too, although I find you cant zoom whilst in video mode, and the resolution is only 640x480 in video mode (although this should be plenty, and besides, its a stills camera not a camcorder so this is just an added bonus). Movies are recorded in .MOV (quicktime) format.
Lots of crazy features like long exposure time (up to 4 seconds) or consecutive shots (up to 4 autoshots) make for some interesting photos, as well as timer delay.
I've had a play with some of the other camera modes (closeup, self-portrait etc) but I really wont get to test these out until next week... for most photo's, the auto mode works fine, and captures crisp sharp images with excellent colour definition. Interestingly the camera also comes with monochrome or sepia colour modes, which makes for some nice 'ye oldie' style photos.

The camera hooked up to my girlfriends (bless her heart for letting me harass her with the camera all weekend) windows XP computer fine without the need to install drivers, and the photos and movies downloaded pretty quick onto her machine. Most importantly for me however, is that the camera is detected on my Linux machine (Debian w/ 2.6.18 kernel) although the transfer seems a lot slower under Linux (it may need tweaking)

There are some fallbacks which you will need to cover - the camera only has 16Mb internal memory, so it is worth investing in a SD or MMC card. I bought a 1Gig SD card and that holds up to about 900 pictures - or about 45 minutes of video.

Also the batteries that came with the camera are bog standard alkaline. They lasted me about an hour of toying before the camera would no longer power up on them, so unless you want to spend the rest of your life buying batteries, I'd recommend getting some heavy duty rechargeable batteries - I bought some Energizer rechargeable (2500mAh capacity - pack of 4 + charger for under £20) and so far one pair of batteries have lasted the whole day.

overall, its a great little camera with plenty of features.

Oh yeah, its fairly lightweight too.