Digital Home Thoughts: Kodak EasyShare Z740 Bundle

"Oh, the much maligned shoebox! It's the repository of hundreds of old prints that are covered with dust and yellowing with age. Digital photography was supposed to eliminate the proverbial box by empowering you to make just the prints you wanted. The problem with this theory was reality. Rather than making prints most people simply downloaded images to their PCs where they stayed, in effect, making the computer a 21st century shoebox. Although making a print at home is relatively easy manufacturers have forged ahead by making it even simpler. No one has done this better than Kodak with its new camera/printer dock bundles such as the Z740 camera combined with the EasyShare Pinter Dock Series 3 ($479 list, $425 or less in the real world)."



I think this is a very nice bundle. With one purchase, you get the Z740, a decent 5-megapixel digicam with a 10x optical zoom and the dock that cranks out 4x6 prints in about 90 seconds. There are some downsides though - the camera lacks manual options and its burst mode is limited. Furthermore, the print size limited to 4x6. Other than that, I think this is a good deal for the price.