Comments on: Bought a new digital camera: Kodak z760

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:16:39 +0000

Love it. Bought it at walmart on the same black Friday sale. 3 years later, the door that holds the battery in is cracked and held together with duct tape. Anyone had experience trying to have Kodak fix something?

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:20:13 +0000

I purchased this Z760 model in December 2005 along with the docking station and could not be more pleased with it. In my opinion the pictures have always come out great and the camera is very user friendly. I download many pictures through the computer and send them to my family and friends. So far, so good.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:54:32 +0000

@ everyone who is wondering how to do anything with this camera

my advice is to get another (better) camera thats not a 4.1 flaming pile of shit.

By: Edward A. Byrnes

Edward A. Byrnes — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:25:03 +0000

The Kodak EasyShare software SUCKS and is irritating at the least. The software
tries to install itself from every Kodak kiosk CD created and hopefully that will be enough to turn consumers to other methods of creating picture CD’s. There, I feel better now.

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:18:26 +0000

We have two Kodak digital cameras, and also purchased the EasyShare dock system. At first, the printer dock worked fine, but we soon started having significant problems. For example, we would buy a replacement cartridge and paper kit which was supposed to print out 20 or 40 photo prints, and the cartridge would run out after 3 or 4 prints. When we contacted Kodak customer service, they acted as if we were scamming them, and asked us to ship receipts, unused paper, etc. before they would take any action. Quite frankly, I’m too busy to mess with all of that stuff, so we just ate the cost, bought a new cartridge, and then had the same thing happen again! I would REALLY caution people to think twice about the printer dock. While I like the cameras, Kodak has a real defect in the dock product, and their customer service people should be ashamed of themselves for the lack of assistance with the problems that we had. A product that crashes after a few months of operation is hardly a bargain, and certainly has caused more frustration and inconvenience than it is worth. My next home printer system WILL NOT be a Kodak product!

By: wyndl

wyndl — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:05:41 +0000

got Z760 from my inlaws, nice pixz for the first 20 shots since it came. then batery icon showed so i charged up using doc 3 for 4 hours. after charging camera hungs, upon turn on it displayed kodak easyshare logo then crossed a horizontal line across the LCD screen then screen is somewhat off but still i can see kodak logo with the line on it.

docked it on doc 3, switched on and presto it worked fine!

undocked it and plug ac adapter on camera, and selecta it also worked pretty good. even took a video of kidz it was ok except for the wires plugged on the wall socket that limits potability.

and then this CAME: upon unplugging from wall socket, with fresh charged bateries the cam went off. so mode dial to off then back to auto. wala it hanged up again!!!!!!! until so many tries it stayed hung up!!!!!!

it only works either docked on dock 3 or with ac adapter plugged.

ANY GOOD HEARTED SAMARITAN? PLEASE RESCUE ME FROM THIS UPBEATING………

THANKS AND GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:06:16 +0000

I have a C643. The camera is wonderful. Aside low light issues I don’t have a complaint about it. The action is crisp, the picture quality is phenominal. Even the movies are outstanding.

If I had one criticism it’s that the camera’s movie format is MPEGIV, which requires Apple’s QuickTime (which I refer to as “Slow Time”). I yanked that abomination and use a substitute Quicktime which isn’t bloat ware. Quicktime is a reminder to the rest of us of why we don’t buy MacIntosh computers.

The EasyShare software was written by a team of Solipsists or they were directed by a committee of solipsists. I keep hoping it’s the latter, because no self respecting windows fluent app coder would write such crap.

They seem to have operated under the delusion that all Kodak customers have bleeding edge speed and stability. I also think that they imagine that you’ll only use your system to service your camera. I can’t see any other reason for the bloated, resource hogging and clumsy interface and action of this “software”. If I could change one thing about my camera, and only one thing, I’d eliminate this “convenience”.

Easyshare is not convenient, it’s not easy to use, and I’d only share it with people I don’t like.

The application INSISTS on loading in the app bar, which takes three to four minutes. It then bogarts your USB port. Stick in a memory stick and EasyShare goes into action whether you like it or not. Oh, did I mention that my Windows 2000 with 256Mb of Ram, forty gigs of disk and 1.8 Gig AMD visibly SLOWS DOWN when I leave the app on the app bar?

The interface is not standard Windows either - it’s some odd screen which reminds me of the old fashioned interfaces before Windows became popular. I have trouble navigating it and I resent how it “takes things in hand”.

I’d have felt better if the blasted thing could have downloaded my pictures and then gracefully asked me what I wanted to do. I am perfectly capable of organizing my photos, but NOO….

I tried living without it, and discovered that I could not download my photos. I cannot enforce a “transfer only”. Like it or not I’m going to do things Kodak’s way. At least until I find a workaround, or buy a new camera from a company which doesn’t treat me like a Luddite.

I thought this evening I’d found an answer. The’s answer was a “driver”, which turned out to be… Easyshare!

The pity is…. it’s a fine camera. Just wish that there was a better way to interface with my system.

Gene

By: Chip Timmons

Chip Timmons — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:30:13 +0000

Help, just purchased a C703 for my wife, tried to install software on my computer and it went nuts. Starts up and shuts down and I cannot seem to get it to slow down long enough to remove installation software. Tried contacting Kodak on support website without any luck. Tried to open domstic phone number line with same results. Anybody else having this problem? suggestions?

Thanks Chip

By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:49:32 +0000

I’m a computer tech for several schools and I’ve got to say the Kodak Easyshare software might be good, but the whole downloading and installation process absolutely SUCKS! The older CDs that shipped with the cameras have problems working with XPsp2, and whenever I go to Kodak’s site to try and download updated drivers or updated EasyShare software, it always errors out with some 1624×17x1956089094x error. Nor can you download the full package, you can only download a tiny utility that actually starts to download the full installer for you. So each time you run the program, you have to download the software from the internet again. If you have a slow internet connection, that sucks! Our schools have several makes and models of digital cameras and I’ve got to say I’ve never had so many problems with them as I have with the Kodak lineup. It’s gone to the point that I never recommend these cameras anymore.

By: dyan

dyan — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:44:13 +0000

my husband works for walmart…SOOOOOOOOOOO…………sometimes buyer beware of those Black Friday deals. they are a limited special buy and when they are gone they are gone FOREVER. I need to replace my Z760 we bought at Walmart on black friday and Wal Mart does NOT carry this model. In fact I cannot find it anywhere. It is my daughter’s camera and was struck by a power surge and was fried and since it is still under warranty it really is not covered for this. GO FIGURE….any one who can help let me know thank you….