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If you were to sit next to my desk you would think it was raining Kodak cameras. It seems less than a month goes by without someone from Big Yellow calling to let me know they have yet another model they want to send over.

This time I was not all that enthusiastic. The DC265 was an upgrade to the 260, a camera I saw a few months ago, while the DC240 was a low-end unit that did not look promising.

The 240 looks like what you would expect in a point-and-shoot film camera. It is fairly compact with a zoom lens that, in 35mm-camera terms, runs from 39-117mm, but it has lower resolution than the DC265.

In the field, it was easy to handle and simpler to use than many cameras. Button controls were external, much like a typical manual camera, and did not require fiddling with on-screen menus. Generally, it was less fuss than its bigger brother.

The DC265 is built like a bus, wider than the DC240 or its predecessor the DC260. It comes with a 16 MB card big enough to hold 30 images at the camera's highest quality selection. It also adds a burst capture mode, overcoming one of the big downsides to all digital cameras - slow recycle time between images.

Gone are the boring white-on-blue menus of the DC260, replaced by colour graphics and sound effects.

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