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Kodak Easyshare - not Easy..

First to be fair to Kodak, Thank You for making available 5MP+ cameras to retail consumers.

But you are still stuck being a product company. Now it is all about experience. And sadly, even though your cameras are great, cheap and selling, the end experience leaves some to be desired.

Now its great, that with the later versions of EasyShare software you got on the 'social' bandwagon, provided facebook etc. options but please understand that countries like India, your average user (currently in 2011 and atleast a couple of years more, which if not managed properly can be damaging permanently) is still going to sync with the computer and that is where the Kodak easyshare is not at all easy !

Some problems -
1. the display does not indicate file types while selecting for download to your computer, so if someone has shot a 100 mb movie in between pictures, you are stuck while transferring. And thats exactly what happened, some videos were shot which were around 10 to 20 mb including one which was a 100 mb movies.

2. it choked my computer which had about 2 gb space on the system drive as it uses the system temp folder to copy entire images and movies to be able to show a preview.

3. Probably the programme is badly written as the files are copied twice, once as in previous step and once again while actually transferring, causing an unnecessary drain on the batteries as well and also, it's just plain bad programming.
 
4. No easy way to manage files from the computer on the camera-installed memory card.

Now 'EasyShare' what exactly does it stand for, Easy Share, right ? ?

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