I've had this camera for about 3 years now.

Picture quality:
- takes great pictures outdoors, and indoor pictures with adequate lighting.
- flash is not adequate. pictures with flash are horrible. they come out all blurry - the shutter speed isn't fast enough/CCD not good enough (when using auto settings)

Use:
- I like having the ability to change the f-stop setting on the fly with the knob on top of the camera. Sure beats using the menus.
- The battery lasts a long time, but it's always good to have a spare, especially if you use LCD alot.

Construction:
- Solid.
- I've fallen on this thing while skiing (back of case is cracked) and took it with me when I accidentally fell into Lake Tahoe (camera was submerged), but amazingly it still works.

Summary:
I've taken thousands of pictures with the camera. Certainly got good use out of it over the past 3 years.
However, newer cameras have better flash capability and record in video. My friends have the Canon SXXX series. They are 1/2 the size of the Kodak, and perform much better.

I've had this camera about 18 months. The only thing that I find lacking in this camera is its ability to take indoor flash pictures. Even using the +/- exposure compensater the pics come out under exposed, especially if the subject is more than 5 feet from the lens. Other features work well. I decided to stop fooling with this camera and went for the Canon S50, wow what a difference. Goodbye Kodak, hello Canon.

First time it died was just within the one-year warranty, and it died again a year later. I'm sending this $500.00 paperweight to Kodak's Vice President for Customer Relations with a nice note.

I've been using this camera for 2-1/2 years now. Even with all the market advancements, I'm sticking with my trusty DC4800.

In 2001, going with 3.1 megapixels was a big splurge. Today it's still a pretty high resolution, despite the 4 and 5 megapixel models now available. But I feel no need to upgrade. I honestly don't believe the average user needs to go higher than what the DC4800 offers. At this resolution, you can get good prints up to 8x10. Extra megapixels just mean more space wasted on your memory card.

The body is still sturdy, with a bit of damage from wear and tear. The worst is a hairline crack above the zoom dial. Additionally, the silver finish is wearing away at the corners. These signs of age are pretty minor considering the abuse I've put this camera through. I don't even own a proper camera case - I just throw it in my bag and go!

The inside mechanisms continue to work perfectly. I've taken over 9000 shots with this camera, so that's saying a lot! Even the battery charges fresh and new as the day I bought it.

If you're in the market for a used camera, I would definitely recommend the DC4800. I'd advise buying this even over newer Kodak models, which I've heard are not great. Kodak made a rare gem with the DC4800, and I'm hanging onto mine!

While the picture quality is quite good with this camera, the shutter delay is quite extreme. The low rating is more a factor of the quality of the camera and the post-purchase customer support. The camera completely stopped working just out of the one-year factory warranty. Kodak has a flat fee of $150 to repair. The camera stopped working once again after the third use, but since it was out of the 30-day repair warranty, Kodak would only offer another $150 repair or an upgrade to one of their other cameras with a trade in. The cost of the upgrade was more than the street price of the camera.

I was using this camera as recently as 6 months ago, though it stopped working when it had the unfortunate luck of shifting in the backseat of my car when traveling, and falling on to the concrete when I opened the door (I've got a new Olympus C5500 now). Anyway, before that, I had the camera for about a year (I got it from a friend who had just bought a really great camera). While this camera is no match for my new Olympus, it was quite a good camera and a good introduction for me into semi-serious digital photography. I had a digital camera called a "JamCam" before this one, but it had few options and rather low picture quality (though for the price and the time when I got it, it was actually decent).

The Kodak DC4800 is excellent under good lighting conditions, getting photo quality prints with a good printer. I actually got some great indoor shots with the flash too, though you can't get to close (it will wash out the picture) or to far away (it will be to dark). The camera can be fully automatic or almost fully manual (there is no manual focus, and the automatic settings are able to make use of more F-stops then when in manual mode).

There are three focus modes: automatic (which usually works well except when dark, as there is no af assist lamp), Macro (for taking close-up shots as close as 10") and infinity (which allows you to lock the focus at infinity, which is good for distance shots).

The camera includes a 3x optical zoom which is nice. When fully zoomed out, this camera gives quite a wide field of view (the only thing on this camera which is actually better then my new camera).

Unless absolutely necessary, set the ISO setting to 100, as anything above that starts to get grainy. At 200 grain is noticeable but usually acceptable, and iso 400 is usually very grainy.

The camera also includes a nice neck strap, lens cap, tripod adapter, and a time delay feature to allow you to get into the picture. The LCD display on this camera is good except when you are in bright sunlight, and then it gets hard to see, so you might need to use the optical viewfinder in some conditions. The camera comes with a recharger. The batter life was just okay, but I got the camera and battery used, so a new battery probably would have been much better. The camera also has video out cables, but the friend I bought this camera from no longer had his, so I can't comment on them. You'll also probably want to get a larger compact flash card then the one that came with the camera.

Overall, this was a great camera in its day, and if you can find it used for a good price (be sure to compare prices as new cameras that beat this one are coming down in price all the time), it is a great starter camera which usually gets pretty good pictures (I won second place at the NJ State fair photo contest (amateur division) with a photo taken by this camera a year ago). The camera is also quite durable, as it took many moderate bumps before the final meeting between it and concrete which finally killed it.