My Kodak EasyShare sure lived up to its name - it was extremely easy to share photos taken with it and at the time of purchasing and using for well over 3 years it came across as by far the easiest to use! The box it came in included the camera (obviously), 2 Kodak batteries, a wrist strap and a software CD (Kodak EasyShare) to load on your PC with features such as red-eye reduction.
The camera itself is pretty easy to use. There are three resolution settings - "Good", "Better" and "Best". Pictures taken at "Best" are usually about 1Mb each in size and at "Good" they are about 300Kb each.
You can time and date stamp your photos or even choose to have them in black and white. There's Auto mode (self explanatory I guess but not all that good at the auto-focus when used at night), Sport mode - for subjects in motion , Night-time mode (best to use this indoors in the evenings as auto-focus doesn't come out too clearly), Landscape - for distant scenery, Closeup mode - for subjects less than 28 inches away and you can even take short video clips for up to 2 minutes or so - but be warned - a 10 second video clip can take up as much memory as 5Mb.
You can magnify the photos you've taken on the view screen up to 4 times whilst still on the camera. And of course, you can delete individual pictures or all of them in one go. You can review the pictures as you go along and decide which ones to keep or delete. I tend to keep the Liveview feature off (Liveview shows you a 1 inch by 1.5 inch screen with live feed) as this uses the battery power up pretty fast.
There's also a zoom button but I find that when you zoom in close to subjects the picture quality leaves a lot to be desired, so I usually end up standing really close to things / people I want a close up of. The 3x zoom feature on the CX6330 is equivalent to a 37-111mm zoom on a regular 35mm lens camera.
The camera comes with a USB lead to connect to your PC and easily download photos. Once connected you can quickly download your photos and decide whether you want to reduce red eye, sharpen images, lighten/darken them, etc. These days I tend to just take out the SD card and insert into the relevant slot on my PC, it takes just moments to download my photos this way and saves all the hassle of playing around with cables. The only issue I have with the features when using the EasyShare software is that it's quite tedious and can be slow. You can also use a docking station if you have one.
I'd definitely recommend getting some rechargeable AA batteries to use with your CX6330 as these cameras drink battery power like water - but then again I guess this applies to most other digital cameras out there, unless someone's not telling me something? Using the "live feed" tends to use up battery power even more so I tend to keep this feature switched off but obviously using a digital camera, it is preferable to have this option available and on!
Printing your photos from your colour or black &white desk jet / inkjet / laser printer is fairly easy. Hopefully you already know how to insert pictures into your regular software such as Word, PowerPoint or Publisher and then print as normal. You may need to change your DPI settings when printing to get clearer prints though according to the printer you use. Of course, you can always print your photos at a shop or through an online photo specialist site like Kodak themselves.
I'd say all in all, it's a pretty decent device for a first time digital camera user and should be suitable for experienced amateurs (like me)! I took well over 5000 pictures with the C6330 and had built up quite an extensive online photo album of weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, evenings out with colleagues, nights out with friends, etc, until I upgraded to the Kodak V603. My friends all laugh when they see me at social events as I'm always "...armed and dangerous with a camera AGAIN!"
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