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Pro's
Buy this camera if you have only $250 and want to have both great photo's and HD video with 12x OPTICAL ZOOM in video mode that fits in your pocket!
Works well indoors in low light and great outdoors.
Use the single focus setting with video to avoid continuous focus (going out of focus when scanning)

Con's
The included quick time software does not play video smoothly on my one year old lap top (The video card is not upgradeable) but I found a freeware download (Video Lan VLC media player)that plays it fine.
The speaker in the camera has low volume so you have to put your ear on the speaker to hear the sound. The sound plays fine on the pc though.
You'll need to order a separate battery charger that works independent of the camera operation and a separate video cable to playback the video to your HD TV ($25)

I wanted an easy to use camera that isn't too big and bulky. This camera is perfect. It takes very clear pictures, and I really like that it has a setting to take pictures of objects in motion. I also love that it has a rechargable battery--my friends spend a fortune on AA batteries for their cameras. I would definitely reccoment this product.

I have had a cannon digital camera for several years. It is slow to respond, picture quality was awful. Generally speaking, I was very disappointed with it.

I purchased the Kodak EasyShare Z950 when I was sent an email from Kodak. I read other reviews of others who had already purchased and used it. So I took a chance.

I have been very pleased with the results. It is quick to respond to multipule shutter clicks, which with 3 active grandchildren you need. The quality of the pictures that I printed out are fantastic. Even enlargements are crystal clear, perfect for what I needed.

I am very pleased with this product and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a simple to use (right from the box!) great quality digital camera.

I've had many Kodak cameras, but this one is (by far) the best Kodak I've owned. My last 1 was a V1073, gave good pictures but was very hard to view outside. This one seems to be much better at that. Pictures are of the best type. Have not found anything about this camera that I can talk bad about. Price-great. pictures-great. If I had anything bad to say about it, that would have to be the owners manual (users guide). It isn't the best I've used, but I can work around that part of it. Believe me, this Z950 is well worth it's price and will give you all you are asking for.

For a camera that offers PASM manual modes, it also needs manual focus for macro shooting, and pre-focusing on an area to capture fast action (like a skateboarder coming in and out of frame quickly). Also needed are custom white balance, variable JPG compression levels. and manual flash levels to optically trigger off-camera flashes. Kodak makes good value cameras, but it's these minor features that are lacking and come standard in competitors cameras that break the deal for me.