Kodak PIXPRO Friendly Zoom FZ53-RD 16MP Digital Camera with 5X Optical Zoom and 2.7" LCD Screen (Red)

Bought this as a gift for 12 year old. He loves it, it takes great pictures. It has several shooting functions and he is enjoying trying them all out. Takes great, clear pictures from very close to across a big room with excellent detail. They are nice, can use for videos and also has timer function so he can get in the pictures he is taking. Not a toy camera it is great quality, just what we wanted. Small enough to be easily portable, fits in a pocket but we did get him a carrying case. The battery life is good, but I think I am going to get him a backup battery so he has one charged while he is using one and therefore never runs out of power. I would highly recommend.

I don't have a smart phone, so this is my camera. It's perfect and pretty. UPDATE: My husband liked my camera so much, I got him a black one for his birthday. The USB cord didn't work. I contacted the seller and they sent me a replacement immediately. EDIT: He lost it. I am now buying him another which will be engraved with his name and phone number.

This camera is very small and has many modes and features that weren't too difficult to learn. By default, the picture quality was set to low, so many of my first pictures didn't come out so great. As soon as i set it to the max number of pixels, the picture quality was fine. I have noticed that i don't get the best quality when using zoom or when photographing objects at a distance. This camera does best when photographing up close, maybe 1 to 3 feet. The fill flash is a nice feature, i have used that often to add a little more pop to my photos.

I was very pleasantly surprised by how nice the pictures taken by this camera are. It takes a bit of reading, but once you do this camera is actually quite easy to use. The battery life is also pretty nice. It took 61 pictures at full 16M, plus a four minutes 720p video to get the battery indicator to move to half. Much better battery life than AA batteries would give, for sure.The only drawback that I've found is that it is a little small for my hands. It would be nice if it was just a little bigger.

Good camera but unfortunately the description stated that it was WiFi compatible but it doesn't have any WiFi capabilities. Thwt was the only reason I purchased this camera. Now I have a camera that has to be connected to a computer to download pictures. Not what was on the description.

It is an easy to use camera. If you used to it's predecessor the Kodak EasyShare M763, this version is similar. An advantage is that all of the settings for different conditions are at a single location., which takes some getting used to. The picture quality is good, the battery life excellent if the user merely keeps it charged when not using. I give if 4 stars for ease of use, because there is no handbook. However an extensive on line manual is available...and it is extensive, meaning a lot of reading. The only difficulty I had was downloading the pictures to my computer. But I got it done.It is small so if you have huge hands it might difficult to push the small buttons.

Don't waste your money on this camera... I purchased one of these for my daughter, for her to use at her job taking photos for the local antique store (she needs something small and lightweight)... When it arrived she made sure the battery was charged, and once that was done, that everything was installed correctly... She took it around the house taking photos of various items to test the image quality before taking it to use at work, and it was some of the worst quality we have ever seen... The photos were grainy as could be when installed on her computer. (It should probably be noted that my daughter is no stranger to operating digital cameras similar to this.)... She tried every setting combination possible, and still couldn't get an image good enough to be able to use for her job... The camera screen would sometimes make the image shake as if in an earthquake, and it was difficult to get it to stop once it started... The flash wasn't always activating, though it was turned on (and a reliable flash is needed, as the lighting in the antique store isn't the best)... Also, if you activated the macro setting, it wouldn't allow the flash to be used. (She's never had a camera that did that stupidity.)... To top that off, if you activated the image stabilization mode it wouldn't let the flash be on... She booted it up this morning (thinking she would give it another chance), and the battery was less than half charged from just sitting (she'd checked the charge when she was done testing it yesterday, and it was still fully charged according to the camera)... Also, it apparently doesn't have its own software, as it was installing the photos using software she already has (she has to select it, as no option for the camera itself came up.)... It was the worst camera we've ever had, and we're in the process of returning it.

Good