Small camera I bought and took on a vacation to Las Vegas and Route 66 in Arizona. I carried it in a carrier hooked to my belt. I took over 400 pictures and only 2 were discarded. (I didn't wait for the camera to focus) Very quick to turn on, and at 10 mp and a 2 gig card I had plenty of room on the card. Very sharp pictures. Very good pic under low light, like in casino shopping malls and at dusk. Didn't try the video part.
Charged the camera at night, no problem with battery when using the camera all day.

I had lots of cameras.
I just returned to Panasonic Fs20 i did not like .

But this camera i just got today i did pics of the kids and its fast !! of 50 pics maybe 2 came out blurry.
So im happy -its small -3 inch lcd.
colorful
very sharp nice pics.
i was going to get the silver one but i ended up with the black one because it was much cheaper then silver
so who cares about the color!
For this price 10 mp i do recommed this camera to everybody.

I bought this camera to replace my Kodak EasyShare C530 5mp. I have been very impressed. It has met and exceeded my expectations. I brought it with me to a friends house to take pics of her 6, 5 and 3 yr old. The pictures turned out great! I did not like that the camera took a second to focus, but when it did the pictures were amazing.
The size intimidated me (it is very thin) but once I took a few pictures I became very comfortable. The settings are a wee bit confusing but very easily learned.
I have now bought another one for a friend in the military who is in need of a new camera. For the price you can not ask for a better camera.

In fact, I have a small story to tell before I review this camera (Kodak M1033).

I used to have Kodak EasyShare DX7590. That camera was producing beautiful and great quality pictures. I still have this camera but I wanted to buy a small camera that will fit my pocket. So I bought Sony W-170 CyberShot, but I sold it after one week because I didn't like the pictures at all. The pictures were not clear and the general quality is too low.

In that moment, I returned to the shopping mall and reviewed all the small cameras they have and after a careful consideration, I decided to buy Kodak EasyShare M1033.

Kodak EasyShare M1033 gave me the quality I want with reasonable price. I noticed that all Kodak products are delivering the same great quality and sharp pictures.

Kodak M1033 has different modes that you can select depending on the situation. I used the beach mode when I went with my family and the pictures were so great and the color the blue water was so nice in the pictures. Even my family couldn't believe that this camera was able to capture such pictures with that great quality.

The overall experience with this camera is GREAT and I strongly recommend it for anyone wants a small camera with high quality and resolution pictures. This camera is easy to use with its programmed modes that provide various types of pictures in different situations.

Regards,
Yousef

I recently bought Kodak M1033 after reading reviews. It looks wonderfull and it was all fine for a couple of weeks. Then trouble started. It doesn't turn-off, lense dont move, lcd screen freezes. Chattering noise from camera. I called Kodak support and they asked me to send the camera on my expense, hope they cover repair. I think when we buy online, we should plan for better waranty. This was my first kodak camera brand and the worst one !!! I could not use it for my vacation. My bad selection.

Having owned digital cameras for nearly 10 years now, I'm no stranger to them. I currently own a somewhat old Sony 5mp "prosumer" camera (which still takes very nice photos) and an 8mp Canon DSLR. Since the latter weighs nearly 4 lb. with my favorite lens on it and the former is not exactly compact either, I went shopping for a reasonably good quality and not too expensive pocket camera. After reading some reviews I was interested in a Fujifilm J10, which while inexpensive seemed pretty decent and got good marks for image quality. I treked down to a local Best Buy to check it out. While the J10 does look like a very nice camera for the money, I was not quite enthused about what I perceived as a sluggish response, and the camera buttons seemed a bit clunky. I decided while I was there to look around at other brands and models while I was there. That was when the Kodak M1033 caught my eye. I thought it was a very attractive looking camera. Part of this was due to the fact that it had little in it's finish that would attract finger prints ... something that drives me crazy. Upon picking up the camera I then noticed it was a Kodak and was a little surprized. To be honest, I've not perceived Kodak cameras as being of particular quality or performance. Upon playing with the controls I was immediately impressed with the build quality and the feel of the buttons. Discovering the joystick control ... I was off to the races. Most of the camera operation was fairly intuitive and I found the joystick a much more convinient selection method than the multi-way controls used in most pocket cameras. I was also impressed by the quick responses of the camera ... start-up time, shutter lag, magnification and image scrolling on playback were all quite good, particularly by pocket camera standards. I decided to wait and research the camera some more and then once I found out about the HD video modes with MPEG-4 compression, I decided to give it a try. After several days of using the camera, I'll say that overall I'm fairly impressed with it. The image quality doesn't compare with my DSLR but even though shots in low light are frequently a bit noisy and blurred (again, by DSLR standards), they look pretty good compared to other pocket cameras I've seen reviewed. With 10mp you can afford some blurriness which you'll never see unless you enlarge quite a bit. While full manual modes are not present on this camera, it does give some manual control and has several features that surprized me on this type of camera (spot metering and histogram to name two). On one hand the high ISO settings can make for pretty blotchy and/or noisy images, but again, I've seen far worse in camera reviews of shirt pocket cameras and I must say I'm surprized that these images seem usable even at such high settings. I'm just a bit embarrassed to admit that I've grown accustomed to shooting most of my shots in fully-automatic "dummy" mode. I can't complain about the results and should I need a little more control, to some extent I have it. All in all I'd have to give this little bugger a big thumbs up.

Let me preface this by saying that I have really enjoyed using my m1033 over the past months. The image quality is ok, the size is compact, and it's great having HD video capability in my pocket.

That being said, there is a serious flaw in the firmware that puts you at risk of losing picture and movie files stored on your SD card, particularly if you are a Mac user.

It should be noted that there are also some minor operational issues that myself and others have experienced, most commonly that of the camera locking up on occasion. This has happened to me perhaps 5-7 times over the past few months and is easily remidied by removing and replacing the battery. Another flaw is that now and then, a completed movie is unplayable on the camera, yet is playable on the Kodak HDTV dock or computer software such as VLC.

The BIG DANGER, though, is in utilizing a card reader (as many of us do) in order to transfer your pictures to your computer. On a Mac, the "Finder" (file browser) inserts many hidden files on your SD card, which you can see if you look at the card on a Windows computer or in the Terminal on Mac. These files evidently give the camera MAJOR problems when you insert it back in the camera. However, the problems do not seem to manifest themselves until you shoot a movie. I've had the camera corrupt every single picture and movie on the card through this design flaw. Another time, I got lucky and only about 70% of the files were corrupted.

This is a SERIOUS problem that Kodak needs to correct in a firmware update. My Kodak Z740 never had this problem.

As a workaround in the meantime, I highly reccommend using a free little utility called CleanUp smb mess, available at http://www.faqintosh.com/risorse/en/sys/cleansmb/ . It removes all of the hidden files put on the card by your mac. I keep it in my dock and use it all the time! Once you drag your disk over it's icon and eject it, you won't have any problems with corrupt files. But, should you forget to do so as I have a few times, kiss those precious "Kodak moments" goodbye!!!

I bought this camera as a replacement to our Canon that we recently lost. Before the Canon, I had always been a fan of Kodak's, so I decided to go back to Kodak when I needed another camera. I used this camera for a vacation, and although it takes great pictures, it has some BIG ISSUES.
The camera seems to freeze every once in a while and won't turn off and the lens won't retract. I have to take the battery out to fix it. Not great if you need the camera in a hurry. The biggest blunder though is that if you use the "Smart Capture" (which produces great pictures, I'll admit) the battery will last for about three seconds. Not good if you want to use the camera for a day trip. Kodak needs to rememdy these problems before I'll buy another camera like this. Such a disappointment!

Wonderful camera - I purchased it for my 14yr.old daughter, and she couldn't be happier with it.

I read some reviews of this camera. They looked promising. I decided to pick it up as a impulse buy. If the flash goes off the still pictures look ok. The video is terrible. I bought this to replace my Fujifilm E550 which takes ok video. But the M1033 video looks far too noisy to be useful. I thought with HD capability it would at least take fair video.

Here's my backstory: I bought a rather expensive Sony camcorder with photo capabilities thinking "this will help me chronicle my adventures while I'm in Europe." This turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made! Despite being such an expensive camcorder, the Hard Drive Disk Sony model took grainy footage and to put a sour cherry on top, the photos were terrible! I returned the piece of crap. Since the $443 camcorder had such crap quality, I thought about going all in. Let's get an HD camcorder, but we all know that requires a lot of money. Fortunately I found a much better alternative. Kodak M1033! I have reviewed footage from this Kodak camera and I it is 10x better than the Sony camcorder that I had. It features 720HD video capabilities and I must say this is an amazing deal. It totally beats an upscale Sony camcorder AND it takes great pictures. Definitely worth it if you're into making decent home movies. If you just want a solid digital camera, you can score with a canon powershot which sells at a price a little cheaper than this. HD video in your pocket can't be beat!

This was such a beautiful, clean design, that it immediately caught my eye among the other cameras. I'm tired of gadgets that try to look powerful by being hard to use. I want a camera that is--dare I say it--like my iPod.

Good: Ease of use, picture quality, video quality.
Bad: Battery life, occasional freezing (?!)

This camera really is easy to use, but it doesn't sacrifice features or power to do it (sure, it's no SLR). It's a great pocket camera.

I'm pleased with the picture quality. The automatic mode displays the icon of the most appropriate "specialty mode" as it takes the picture, perhaps educating you for future shots. Colors look good. Flash is good for a camera this size.

I'm pleased with the video quality. I saw the review where someone was complaining about video quality--I'd have to guess that he's shooting in low light. What can you expect with a lens the size of a dime? I'm using it as a stand-in to replace my failing Mini-DV camcorder. DV is better, sure, but even as picky as I am, I'm willing to use this for video in the meantime. It does stabilization in 480p (not in 720p). It also has standard and high quality video modes (not sure what other reviewers used). I recommend high quality 480p with stabilization.

The battery doesn't seem to last long. I rotate through my batteries pretty frequently (once a week with "moderate" use--what's moderate?). I couldn't make an entire day at a theme park visit on one battery. Have extras.

Mine has frozen up a couple of times. Talk about weird. I just popped out the battery and put it back. Nothing was lost. All was fine. Just weird.

I'm willing to change/charge the batteries more frequently for a CLEAN DESIGN and GREAT PICTURES. I wish more cameras were like this, but the M1033 seems to be a fluke -- even among Kodak products. I would buy this camera again. BTW, I bought the bronze one -- awesome color.

Very practical camera with it's small compact design that takes big pictures. Big viewing area. So far seems to work perfect. I love it. I had an older Easyshare, much more bulky and slower taking pictures and the viewing area was too small to really make out if picture was any good. Would definitely recommend this one.

This is a really neat little camera, small and light with more than adequate features for someone who wants to do a bit more than point and shoot.It takes some time to learn, and can be a bit confusing. The booklet that comes with the camera is ok for the basics, but I recommend downloading the full manual from Kodak to fully utilize the camera's features.On the down side is the very short battery life, so I would recommend carrying a spare.

I picked the M1033 up at a local Best Buy, intending to replace my decrepit 3.3Megapixel Olympus. I wanted a small form-factor camera with high resolution, and passable video I could use so my wife wouldn't have to lug around our video camera for occasional use.

At first, I was excited, but the glamor wore off quickly. I would not recommend the device without SIGNIFICANT CAVEATS. Read on...

* Form factor: the camera is friggin tiny. That's excellent -- what I was looking for.

* Still image quality: once you turn OFF the digital zoom, the image quality is as good as one would expect from a ten megapixel camera. However, if you zoom all the way in on the image (on your computer), you'll see compression artifacts because it exports JPEG files, rather than PNG or TIFF. This dims my otherwise stellar recommendation.

* Video quality is HORRIBLE, especially in low light. I was SHOCKED at how awful the video is. Why would I take 720p high-definition video if the image quality is noisy and grainy? IF VIDEO IS EVEN REMOTELY A PURCHASING CONCERN FOR YOU, YOU WILL NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THIS PRODUCT.

* Video format is Quicktime MOV. If you have a Mac, this is no big deal. For the rest of us, this is a pain. EDITING QUICKTIME MOVIES REQUIRES PURCHASING ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE.

* The unit's basic layout could stand significant improvement. For example, the position of the lens makes it a natural place to hold the camera, which is okay when it's turned off. However, once you hit the power button, it's very easy to brush the lens with your fingertips.

Further, the EasyShare connector (NOTE: proprietary USB plug) is located very close to the tripod shoe connector. This means that you have to choose between installing a quick-release shoe for your tripod and plugging it into USB. I can understand this (somewhat), as the camera just isn't very big and you have to put these things somewhere.

Still, together, this is very disappointing. I'm imagining that I'd have to clean the lens A LOT due to fingerprints.

* the buttons on the top row are easy to hit at the same time. This resets the camera to factory configuration. I discovered this six seconds after handing it to my wife. Fortunately, it's easy to reconfigure, but I don't intend to reset the clock on the thing every few weeks.

* volume control for the unit appears to be universal -- the sounds the camera makes are controlled by the same logic that limits sound of video playback. This control is buried in the setup system. So, when I turn the camera's insipid sound effects down to the minimum, I can't easily hear the video soundtrack even on maximum playback volume. Poor design choice.

* joystick-stud is difficult to use for some people. Like my wife, or me when I get excited. Pushing the button in (ENTER) often causes the stick to go in one direction or another. Imagine doing this on a very cold day.

* Digital zoom RUINS the image quality. Make SURE to turn it off or you'll be wondering why you bought a 10MP camera.

SUMMARY: This camera is for you if you can meet ALL of the following criteria:
1. you want very high-resolution images and small form-factor
2. you can tolerate extremely poor quality video (or don't need video at all)
3. you have a way to edit (or don't need to edit) the quicktime movies the camera produces in such low quality.
4. you seldom or never use a tripod
5. you have tiny, agile fingers and never take pictures in cold weather
6. you can remember to immediately turn off the digital zoom

...otherwise, seek a different product.

The M1033 is a compact camera that takes excellent photos.I especially like the 3" LCD screen and the layout of the controls.The included rechargable battery will save you money in the long run and can be charged with the included AC adapter or USB cable.I do have a few minor gripes though:the battery life is short,the buffer takes a long time on large MP shots and the joystick is touchy.The included Easyshare software is buggy so I use Google Picasa instead.When making DVD's I use DVDFlick(free) or Sonic MyDVD,either one will convert MPEG-4 as long as you have Quicktime installed.
Having said that I have a few recommendations:turn off digital zoom,do not use an ISO setting higher than 800 in P mode,I recommend buying an extra battery(KLIC-7004),I also recommend using a high speed SD card because it takes faster shots and uploads to your PC faster.

Pros:
Ergonomic
Compact
High quality photos and video
Smart Capture
Large screen
16:9 mode
Supports SDHC cards up to 32GB

Cons:
Buttons can be touchy
Doesn't remember mode when powered off
Battery life
Easyshare software

I'm loving my new compact camera that fits so easily into my purse. The battery life is great, the 3" LCD screen is fabulous and with Smart Capture I just have to point and shoot !! My friends have all seen it and want one now too !!! I am definitely glad I chose to buy another Kodak !