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I have two SLRs. I fancy manual cameras. But I decided to buy this product so that I could take spontaneous photos when I take my family out to crowded locations and do not have the time to fiddle with the SLR.

I love it. It is well built and takes excellent pictures -- just the right thing for snapshots. The controls are well thought out and so is the menu system. The camera is so easy that my technophobe wife can easily operate it. This camera may not be for someone that wants better control over the pictures they take. This is a good digital equivalent of your basic disposable camera.

I've lopped off one star for the fixed-focus lens. It would have been better to have autofocus. However as far as I can see the pictures (without zoom) are quite sharp even when blown up to 8x10. I did not buy the dock. Uploading via the little connector from the camera to the PC worked fine and I did not know what benefit an additional docking station brought.

Even though this is a beginner's camera, it is doing everything I want beautifully, except for the pretty useless digital zoom. I use my Pentax rangefinder if I want to use zoom. My Kodak DX3500 is a joy. It's very easy to use, the software is excellent, the prints are beautiful (as you'd expect from Kodak). I use it at least three times a week. I.E. I run outside to take a picture of a plant to send to my gardening e-mail buddy, download it, save it and e-mail it to her in about three minutes. I can take 30 pictures of my granddaughter and have them ready to show to my daughter when she comes to pick up the baby. I used a 64MB picture card for a trip to Arizona; I show those pics as slideshows on my family's and friend's TVs. I took a laptop computer on a month long trip to South Carolina, loaded the software on it, have all the photos saved on the hard drive; I took the laptop to my mother's nursing home to give her a slideshow. I have NO complaints about this camera. I MIGHT buy a more high end camera in a few years, but I doubt it.

I received my camera as a Christmas gift. It's my first digital camera. It is nice looking and surprisingly light. I'm a novice user, and getting started with the camera is a piece of cake. I was taking pictures before the presents were all unwrapped. I also reveived the dock that's used to download pictures into my computer. This is a must have. It is unbelievably simple. Literally put the camera on the dock, and press one button, and the system does the rest. The Kodak software opens, and the pictures are displayed right in front of you. Picture quality is outstanding. I think 2.2 megapixels is plenty. I've printed out 8x10s, and they come out sharp.Here's an unforseen serendipity: It feels great having the freedom to snap away, and just delete the pictures I don't want instantly. The feeling of losing that tense, "make every picture count" feeling you get with a regular camera is beautifully liberating. Which leads me to another must have: an external memory card to insert into the camera. This will increase the amount of pictures you can take from about 20 with just the camera alone to about 50 for the smallest memory card. They're fairly inexpensive and well worth it. Downside: The camera has a digital zoom, but no optical zoom. In other words the lens doesn't physically extend when I want to zoom. I press a button, and it will zoom digitally. But in order to see how close you're getting using the digital zoom, you must look at the LCD screen, and not the viewfinder, which requires pulling the camera away from you face. It's awkward, and I would GLADLY pay the extra money for the next model up with the optical zoom. Great quality camera, simple simple simple to use.

Very happy with product. Very easy to use point and shoot digital camera. This feature packed camera is reasonable priced. Not to fancy, yet does everything the average comsumer would want. Best if used in conjuction with Kodak EasyShare Camera Doc. (I have also reviewed this item.)

Note: If you use the LCD screen to "take" pitures it uses the battery faster. This camera has a digital, but no optical zoom.

i like the dx3500 even though i wanted the dc3400 but it was no longer on the market.my only problem with it is the connection to the computer.i would of liked to see a serial port hook up as well as usb.plus when you take a picture sometimes it comes out blurry,for the price of these cameras i would think the quality would be better,but i still like it alot better than a normal camera.