Kodak Plus Digital One-Time-Use Camera

I work at a professional photo lab, and I can attest to the quality of the film inside this camera. It produces results comparable to the Kodak PowerFlash -- that is, it performs superbly for outdoor and bright indoor shots, but it will tend to give grainy images in low-light situations.

The "Free CD" that you get with processing varies depending on who processes your film. As an example, at my lab, the customer only receives the free CD if he opts to have his order sent to Kodak for processing. Ask about your local photofinisher's policy on the free Kodak CD *before* you drop off your memories!

The Kodak PlusDigital camera comes loaded with Kodak 800-speed film.

If you need a camera that performs well in low-light situations, I recommend the Kodak HQ Max Versatility camera.

Despite the name, and the assertions of some sales people, this is not a digital camera. It is a one-time-use film camera with an inflated price that gives you a "free" Kodak Picture CD when you have the film processed. The problem with this plan is that many film processors either don't know, or conveniently seem to forget, about the free Picture CD and they charge you their normal price for it. You already paid for it in the price of the camera. It only costs $2 to $3 to get a Picture CD when your film is processed, so get an inexpensive disposable camera and avoid the hassle of convincing the film processor that they owe you a free CD. The "Maximum Versatility" film used in this camera does not produce particularly good pictures (then again, I guess no disposable camera produces outstanding pictures), it just gives tolerable pictures under a wide range of conditions.

Since this is NOT a digital camera, Kodak should be ashamed of themselves for putting the word "digital" anywhere on the thing. I can see no purpose for it other than to deceive unwary buyers.

My digital camera broke while on vacation so we picked up one of these to use for the last two days. The quality of the prints was comparable to a fixed focus camera. Not great, but acceptable. And the same could be said for the digital pictures. I'm not sure what the resolution is, but I'd say about 1.3 megapixels. I wouldn't want to make big prints from them but they were fine for viewing on screen and emailing.

As to the other reviews, I don't find anything deceptive about the product. I don't recall that the pictures require realplayer and even if they did you can get a realplayer viewer free on their site. Also, the box clearly says that the it simply gives you a digital disk of pictures when you process the film. Overall, I think in certain situations this is a good and useful product.

I purchased this product and had the film developed. The prints came out "ok" but I paid additional money to get the disc in order to send the pictures via e-mail. When I tried to access the pictures on the disc I came to realize that it only works with Realplayer software. Therefore, the disc was useless to me unless I paid additional money to Purchase Realplayer software for my computer. This was not disclosed to me up-front before I paid my money for the digital prints on the disc. I cannot view the prints unless I spend additional money to purchase Realplayer. I was shocked and dismayed at this unethical business practice. This could be the basis of a good class action lawsuit againts Kodak & Realplayer.

This is NOT a digital single-use camera as its name may lead you to believe. This is a regular disposable camera using regular film - you simply get a CD with it when you have it processed. Do not be misled.