Reviews for Kodak EasyShare CX7220 2 Megapixel Compact Camera1.5" LCD - 2x Optical Zoom - 1632 x 1232 Image - 320 x 240 Video - MPN: 1652957 
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GeekNYC
- Dec 28, 2004
Kodak EasyShare CX7220 2 Megapixel Compact CameraStrengths: Compact, Light, Good Quality Weakness: Dock not included The camera is compact and light. The quality is very good for the price. The LCD is very clear. This camera is much better than my previous 3 megapixel digital cam'. Perfect for folks who want a good camera, but don't want to spend the big bucks to have one. PriceGrabber Rocks! 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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Kodak EasyShare CX7220 2 Megapixel Compact Camera
Strengths: Good price. Excellent camera. Easy to use.
Weakness: Kodak Easyshare Software has faults.
I was able to purchase the Kodak CX7220 for $93 including shipping. This was my first purchase of a digital camera and after 6 weeks and taking 2000 photos I am still totally happy with this purchase. I also spent an additional $45 on (4) rechargeable batteries with charger and 256 MB SD Media Card for the camera. You need rechargeable batteries.
Most of the cameras I've considered were 3 megapixels (MP) or better. The 2 MP cameras are considered bottom of the line. But I questioned the need for the 3 MP. My computer display is 1024 x 768 = 786,432 pixels = about 0.8 MP. 75% of the resolution of a 3.1 MP picture would be lost (because the picture is shrunk down to fit the display) on my display monitor. Prior to my camera purchase, I checked the pictures that I’ve downloaded or were e-mailed to me. Very few were above 1.1 MP and that the quality of some of my 0.3 MP photos were excellent. 3 MP is more than I need. Considering that the 3 MP cameras cost 50% more than the 2 MP cameras, this is good to know.
More MP would be better with the digital zoom feature which most (if not all) digital cameras seem to have. The digital zoom is essentially cropping the photo and enlarging it. If you have a high resolution camera (many MP) the more the picture can be cropped and enlarged and still look good. The CX7220 has 2 MP and 2X optical zoom. However, a camera that had no optical zoom would have to have 8 MP to have the same digital zoom resolution of the 2 MP camera with 2X optical zoom. This is why I shied away from the 3 MP digital zoom only Kodak CX7300 (priced about the same as the CX7220). The 2X optical zoom is effectively giving you 4 times the MP for those distance shots. I would definitely go with the 2 MP camera with optical zoom before I'd go with a 3, 4 or even 5 MP camera without optical zoom.
I’ve used this camera to take pictures of fabrics then I used those digitized sample fabrics to design quilts in a paint program. The color quality of the digitized fabrics seems good. This confirms the results from DigitalCameraInfo.com that gives the Kodak CX7330 an overall color score of 8.46 out of 10. DigitalCameraInfo says of the Kodak "This is a respectable score for any camera, let alone a point and shooter that relies on automatic settings."
I’ve also used my CX7220 to digitize all the pictures in my old photo albums with impressive results. The camera picks up much detail from these old photos (when displayed on the computer screen) that has gone unnoticed before. I am able to take pictures of objects 4 inches long and still get good images. Pictures of images smaller than this blur. I used extensively the Kodak Easyshare Software editing features on my old digitized photos (photo cropping, enhancing, over/under exposure) improving dramatically the poor image quality of many of my old pictures.
The Easyshare software allows you to create albums using any and all of the photos on your computer. Once you've put photos into a Kodak album, you can edit the photos, add captions and manually sort them for slide shows. Two or three times I've lost my manual sort, losing hours of work. Also, the captions (as well as the manual sort) do not become an attribute of the picture file, but of the Easyshare software. (That is disappointing.) I could find no way to back up my Easyshare albums which means a large amount of work can be potentially lost. If you move your picture files from one folder to another your Easyshare album loses the connection with the picture. I could find no automatic way for Easyshare to reconnect to the moved pictures. I had to connect them manually, one picture at a time. Finally the Easyshare software has frozen up on me several times when removing pictures from the collection.
Note that the Kodak CX6230 is a 2 MP camera very similar to the CX7220 but a with a 3X optical zoom (instead of 2X) for about 15% increase in price. What I do not like about CX6230 camera specs is the quicktime movie feature is only limited to 30 seconds maximum length. The CX7220 movie length is limited by the size of the external memory (for example a 256 MB memory will give you 18 minutes of movie).
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