Kodak DX7440 Zoom

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Kodak DX7440 Zoom

Review of the DX7440 Zoom

Compared to the DX6440, the DX7440 has a much larger LCD screen (2.2") which will make menu navigation much easier than its counterpart. The megapixel count is still 4.0 and the optical zoom is the same at 4x, but the digital zoom has gone up from 3.8x to 4x. The DX7440 also offers 16 scene modes, 5 colour modes plus movie mode (all listed below) so this camera offers lots of creative possibilities.

Features of the Kodak DX7440 Zoom include:

• Professional-quality SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON 4X Optical Zoom Lens
  
• 4.0 MP for sharp, vibrant prints up to 20"x30" (50x76 cm)
  
• 32 MB internal memory plus SD/MMC expansion slot
  
• Exclusive KODAK Color Science Image Processing Chip
  
• Manual and custom controls
  
• 2.2" high-resolution indoor/outdoor display
  
• High-speed, low-light auto-focus
  
• Continuous shooting and bracketing modes
  
• 22 scene and color modes
  
• 16 programmed scene modes: Portrait, Night Portrait, Self Portrait, Landscape, Night Landscape, Close-up, Beach, Party, Sport, Snow, Text, Fireworks, Flower, Manner/Musuem, Children, Backlight
  
• 5 color modes: High color, Low color, Natural color, Sepia, Black and white
  
• Movie mode: Continuous video with audio and on-camera playback
  
• Continuous shooting and bracketing modes
  
• High-speed, low-light, auto-focus
  
• Manual controls
  
• Custom mode
  
• Program auto, aperture priority, shutter priority and custom modes
  

Kodak DX7440 reviews

Average rating from 3 reviews:

Reviewed by Martin Platt from UK on 18th Jun 2006
I have owned a Kodak DX7440 for over 12 months now and it is an excellent featured and good value camera which is totally ruined by a simple design flaw. The main control is a wheel on the back which is fiddly at best when the camera is new and which becomes increasingly difficult to turn as it wears. Mine is now consigned to the back of a cupboard!
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Reviewed by peterst from Bulgaria on 19th Oct 2005
- Price/quality - one of the best in it's class!
- 4x optical zoom - really good one - Very good macro mode
- Long night shots exposure (up to 64 seconds) allows great photos in very low light conditions
- Average dynamic range when shooting scenes with very light and very dark zones
- A lot of manual controls allowing to take photos in every situation
- Movie quality in 24 fps is like old VHS and still usable on TV
- Movie quality in low-light conditions is not good (too dark even if the light is enough for less expensive cameras)
- Very slow access to the flash card using USB (maybe driver problem)
- WindowsXP driver problem - cannot upload files to the flash card - needs installing additional driver from Kodak but I was not able to get it working
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