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Kodak EasyShare DX6440
Digital Camera Review
ABOVE: A photographer's view of the Kodak DX6440
with its easy-to-use mode dial and 1.8-inch display panel.
An affordable, user-friendly system for
snapshooting, printing, and sharing
Kodak is to photography what Coca-Cola is to soft drinks. Like
its carbonated counterpart, it's an international brand that dates back to the
19th Century, when George Eastman invented dry photographic film and the
rollfilm camera. Eastman's slogan was "You press the button, we do the rest,"
and Kodak has helped consumers preserve family and travel memories ever since.
Still, Kodak isn't just the company that invented the Brownie,
the Instamatic, and other mass-market consumer cameras. It also has a long
tradition of manufacturing 35mm cameras for serious photographers, such as the
German-made Retina rangefinder and SLRs of the 1950s, which my father used to
record our family's trips around the world on Kodachrome slides. And in more
recent years, Kodak has made the highest-resolution professional digital camera
products in the business, with resolutions of up to 14 Megapixels (or about
triple what you'd get with a high-end consumer camera).
Recently, Kodak has introduced a series of EasyShare DX cameras
for the home photographer that seek to combine ease of use and technical
innovation with mass-market pricing. One such model is the Kodak EasyShare
DX6440, which offers an impressive 4 Megapixels of resolution plus a 4X zoom
lens at a U.S. street price in the $375-400 range. The DX6440 is part of a
comprehensive "EasyShare" system that lets novice or convenience-minded
photographers transfer pictures, recharge the camera, and order or make prints
with a minimum of fuss or technical expertise. I tested the camera on an
Oceania Cruises voyage from Dover
to Barcelona, and this article describes what I learned, liked, and disliked
during my two weeks with the DX6440.
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