Kodak EasyShare Z1285 12.1MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom

I have had several Easyshares. I got this one hoping fo better results, BUT its like the others.
These take terrible low-light pictures, terrible macro-pictures, terrible back-lit pictures. If you go to a concert don't even THINK about taking this camera, you'll be highly disapointed.
It does take VERY GOOD pictures in daylight or in situations where it is well lit and the target is stationary.
Ease of use, battery life, and downloading are all excellent, 5 out of 5.

When I bought this camera 2 months ago I was so pleased and thought all the bad press was b/c folks got lemons...I got one too it seems. Even when I fully charge the battery, the camera has started to just turn off whenever I zoom in or out. I am stuck with whatever the lens picks up at the distance I am.
I will be returning it.

I give the Kodak Easyshare Z1285 camera a huge thumbs-up! It's a great little camera that does a lot of stuff. It has automatic settings for all sorts of different picture-taking situations, as well settings that can be easily manipulated manually. This also includes a manual focus in the P/M manual mode. The pictures are crystal clear, and provide great prints. The pictures are clear enough to blow-up to a 30" x 40" sized poster print. I'm no longer limited to a 4" x 6" print, as I was with my older camera. The videos are also crystal clear. Although it's not a camcorder, it does take incredibly beautiful and fairly long videos. I think buying the camera was definitely money well spent. I highly recommend it to anyone that's looking for an easy camera to operate, that provides either automatic or manual settings, takes great pictures and video, and is fairly priced. This is the one to buy!

I have gotten my z1285 a little over a week ago and i love it. the zoom is awesome on it and the video is great as well. i was kind of worried by some of the other reviews i read. i have a class 6 8 gig card and i do not hear it trying to "write" on the card when i'm doing a video. yes you can hear a lil hum when your zooming on video but it's not that bad. Overall the pictures and video quality are awesome. it's very easy to use and to operate as well. i'm very pleased with my purchase of the z1285 and the 8 gig class 6 sd card!

Purchased one month ago for vacation, family photos/movies. Great camera with fine resolution, fantastic pictures. The telephoto with digital zoom allows tremendous closeups but the image will be blurry if not held very steady or using a tripod. For the cost and zoom capability - I'm not disappointed - very easy to use. Highly recommended.