Kodak EasyShare C433

Kodak’s recently launched EasyShare C433 belongs to the starter-level segment, the people moving on from film-based point-and-shoot cameras or those who want more than what their phone cams have to offer, both in quality as well as features. But is it really worth that upgrade? Will your images come better than what your phone cam can produce and will the extra features really make that much of a difference? Lets find out.

Build
The Kodak C433 is built like most cameras in its segment — compact and functional. With a body size of 91x69x35 mm, it’s quite compact, but the extra breadth makes it a bit too bulky to fit in a pocket without sticking out. It weighs a mere 180g, which is pretty acceptable for a camera of its category. Though the body is primary comprised of plastic, the overall build quality of the C433 seems quite sturdy.

The back of the C433 has a few self-explainable buttons, namely delete, menu, review and share. It also has the standard directional controls with an ‘Ok’ button in the centre and the wide and tele toggle on the top right part of the camera’s back. The 1.8” LCD display is quite functional, until you’re out in bright sunlight, where it gets hard to make out anything.

The top of the camera has the main jog control, which allows you to switch between different shooting modes, and playback.

Features
The C433 features a native resolution of 4 megapixels, which may not be optimum for full page high quality pictures, but would do great for 4x6 inch or postcard-sized prints. It features 3x optical zoom that should help out in better framing your shots.

One thing I found pretty odd was that the camera did not come bundled with a composite cable option, which people usually use to view their pictures on a big(ger) TV screen. It may be minimal, but a casual user, especially in that segment would make the most out of that particular feature. Of course, the cable can easily be picked up separately at any respectable camera shop, but budget cam or not, Kodak should have bundled that cable in the box.

Being a budget camera, you obviously wont get many manual features in this model, but the presets by themselves should help you achieve your desired results.