The low-cost 2006 Kodak EasyShare C743 strikes a good balance between affordability and performance, delivering high image quality and ease of use for a suggested retail price of just $259.00. Like most Kodak point-and-shoots, the Kodak EasyShare C743 is very easy to use. The help menus and clearly labeled buttons make it easy for beginners to learn to use the camera. You get 13 scene modes (about average for this class of camera), including Children, Sport, and Backlight. If you accidentally erase a photo while reviewing your album, you can undo the deletion--but only immediately after you've deleted the image. Once you exit the playback mode, you can't recover the picture. The simple to use Kodak EasyShare C743 zoom digital camera provides remarkable features at a reasonable price. You’ll bring details to life with 7.1 MP. And the C743 has a 3X optical zoom lens and huge 2.4" color display, proving that impressive doesn’t always need to be expensive. The camera has 32MB internal memory and accepts SD and MMC cards. You can also place the camera in video mode and make a QuickTime MOV (MPEG-4), VGA (640-480) at 30 fps, or QVGA (320-240) at 30 fps. With its 1/2.5in CCD sensor, 7.4Mp: 3152x2342 resolution, optical viewfinder, wide angle: 13–70cm macro telephoto: 22-70cm lens, 3x optical zoom, 5x digital zoom, the camera produces very good photos. The camera is meant to run on two AA Lithium batteries but will run for a shorter time on Alkaline.