Kodak EasyShare Z1012 Digital Camera

I have owned my Kodak Z-1012 for 8 months now and it has been a super camera. I have not had a single problem with the camera. With care, it is capable of just about any kind of photo. As a professioal digital camera instructor, I readily recommend the Z-1012 to my students, because of all it can do. When www.kodak.com had their sale I purchased two more Z-1012 cameras. They will go to our two married daughters who are active Moms, who along with their great husbands are raising families. Part of active families, is recording the memories, and this camera, the Z-1012 is a perfect family camera.

I had an old Kodak 4530 (which I dropped into Lake Michigan)...ooopps! It was still working but was a slow camera. I love the almost instant ready feature on the Z1012. Turn it on and it's ready to go! Also the 3 picture right-after-another feature is great for action shots, (like the dogs running in the surf of Lake Michigan!) (I won't drop this one). The zoom on it is also great. Having used a kodak before, the buttons and menu's are similar, so it was easy enough to adjust. But, I still haven't even begun to use all the features on this camera.

I just bought this camera at WalMart. I wanted the 12x optical zoom, ease of the camera and to maybe later do videos. The instruction booklet is far too big because it comes in many languages, but for my use what instructions I need is there and simple. So, only 25 pages are useful. I am unhappy at this time with the Kodak lithium CRV3 non - rechargeable battery that came with the camera. The camera died after about 200 shots (not including some deleted ones) and I zoomed in to crop several pictures. I also played and tested as many of the features as I could or want to. The zoomed in picture quality was very grainy and so the pictures became garbage - useless. Quite a few pictures taken outside on a clear day came out really bleached out (the subjects faces) and the colors (their clothing) were really bad. I could not fix them any where they were so bad. I'm not sure if this was due to the cameras battery getting ready to die or not. Also, once you crop a picture one time you cannot... Read more

Picture quality is very good. Auto focus does great on still objects, but is a little slow on randomly moving objects. Video feature is top notch Batteries have not lasted long at all. I have ordered the Kodak rechargable battery suggested.

I have been using this camera for over a year. It's great to capture action during sporting events, even soccer from the sidelines across a big field. The strong optical zoom is great. The pictures it takes are crystal clear, sharp, and have true colors. The panorama option is incredible. It stitches three photos together seamlessly. Con's: The on/off slider switch is poorly designed. The battery does not recharge in the camera.