Kodak has always been one of the big names in digital camera, so when I take a look at one of these, I’m always fairly sure of how it’ll turn out.  Sometimes I’m surprised, one way or the other, but more often than not I’m just satisfied.  Today is one of those days, and today, we’re talking about the Kodak M530.

The Kodak M530 is a twelve megapixel digital camera that offers a 3x optical zoom with augmenting 5x digital zoom, a 2.7 inch LCD display, EasyShare software with the one-touch Share button for easy uploading and transfers, Smart Capture technology (a kind of facial recognition and automatic scene selector all at once), burst shooting mode, autoflash, a variety of white balance modes, thirty two megs of onboard memory and a USB port.

You can see, pretty clearly, that this is a very simple camera without a great deal of bells and whistles, but enough of them that would make for a pretty functional system.  Overall, it’s a simple and easy to use package that doesn’t even have too much of the compactness problem (I didn’t have much trouble with the buttons on this one).

Even better is the price–the Kodak M530 is a bare bones digital camera at a bare bones price of a hundred and thirty bucks out at Best Buy, so getting your hands on one of these is a pretty good idea if you’re in the market for a new digital camera.  You’ll be getting a solid of somewhat short-featured camera that does the job you need most–taking pictures.

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