Kodak Easyshare V550 Review at Zone Numerique

#1 felipe

just to let you know I am a art student and I might not know evrything about cameras, but I know a lot.

I own a couple of profecional cameras, but I was looking for something small to carry everywhere(that could do bought video and pictures of fair cuallity). Well I bought this camera and what a disapointment I had. The picture cuallity was horrible for a 5mp camera(I was expecting a better cuallity than my 4mp canon), in low light conditions the camera was a disaster the flash was horrible, and it makes its own decisions because some times the camera would flash after the picture was taken. The one thing tha the camera was great at was talking fast pictures, there was little wait between two pictures, and it focuses good and fast. Battery life was ok, nothing to bad or to good.
Another big disapointment was the video mode, (I choose this camera because they claim the recording on mpeg4 format wich I thought would be awsome since the psp uses this format and the cuality is not bad at all, and you can fit a lot in small space, and also because of the optical zoom during video mode) to my surprize my 3 year old camera (sony 2mp camera did 10times better video than this one, it was horrible, slow, it pauses like every 10 seconds, you could hear the zoom so loud when you play back the video, it talkes a lot of time to focus after you zoom, is way better to just not use the zoom at all. IN MY POINT OF VIEW THERE IS NO VIDEO MODE IN THIS CAMERA.

The camera has no features what so ever, very little things to play with, and the menu is to kiddie, made for a 8 year old.

One of the nice things was that the digital zoom in camera mode was of extremelly good cuality. even at 12x combined.
to conclude I returned it 2 days after I bought it, I was giving it it a second chance but then I gave up. Its a piece of crap. then I got the canon SD400, what a camera incredible nice pictures and best of all the video is incredible and the digital zoom can be used during the video too. The only reazon I never got the canon before was because i had bad experiences with canon cameras braking on me over stupid shit, so I just got the 4 year warranty and that fixe the problem. Thrust me CANON SD400 is the way to go. try it.

HOPE THIS HELPS. WHEN I BUGHT THE KODAK THERE WAS NO REVIEWS ABOUT IT AND I DECIDED TO TAKE THE RISK.
NOTE: my camera had no imperfections, its just a bad camera. It was hard to returned it because the guy said it wasent broken, and I almost lost 15% of my money, then later they let me trade it in, for full amount but it had to be that same day.

10:44 pm - Monday, July 11, 2005

#2 simon lok

I have to disagree with you felipe, I have replaced my Canon PowershotG5 with this more pocketable camera and I have not missed the heavier Canon very much. The Kodak surprised me as the image quality is excellent, perhaps you had a damaged unit?

12:35 am - Sunday, July 24, 2005

#3 Tim

First, its "quality", not cuality.

Second, there are FAR more good reviews of this camera by people who own it, than negative. I haven't seen as negative a post as what Felipe posted. Check out the user reviews on Amazon, Pricegrabber, Circuitcity if you want proof. Or even Steve'd Digicams review.

5:14 am - Tuesday, August 2, 2005