KODAK PIXPRO WPZ2 Rugged Waterproof Shockproof Dustproof WiFi Digital Camera 16MP 4X Optical Zoom 1080P Full HD Video Vlogging Camera 2.7" LCD (Blue)

You open the box and realize one thing right off. You made the right choice. It get better from that. There is one thin, it is short range from 6 - 8 in to 50-100 yrd perfect. Fir it size to performance ratio I’d say 9 out of 10 in its class. For price to that performance 11 out of 10 in its class. Quick zoom speed sharp imagery. All around superbly designed for ease of function use and picture quality. It’s a perfect fit to my needs in remodeling. It will probably fit yours as well.

I wanted an easy-to-use camera to capture family vacation in the Bahamas, including snorkeling in the ocean and swimming in a water park. This camera performed surprisingly well taking descent photos in a variety of conditions over a week of intense use.Hardware:Self-contained waterproof camera rather than a traditional camera with a water proof case. Reasonable LCD although not the highest resolution. I was pleasantly surprised that digital images actually were crisper when viewing later on a phone or computer as opposed to on the camera screen.Ease of use:Take some time to get to know how to change modes from underwater to action shots before diving into the ocean. The menus are not easy to navigate on the fly if you are not prepared. Also the screen can be a bit hard to see underwater. Particularly while swimming, I took lots of photos and went back later to see how well I got the shot as opposed to looking at the image on the LCD.Photo quality:Attached a few photos of different lighting/photography conditions. For the most part, I was going for underwater photos. On sunny days, these water photos had good quality and the camera did well with autofocus. Lower light conditions in seaweed and rain gave rather muted murky photos. I had not expected to use the camera as much above water and was pleasantly surprised that this worked well in action mode for water slides and tubing. I did not take videos (save one of sharks) though there is the capability in the camera menus.Battery:Here is my one complaint! The battery that came with the camera has a small capacity 800 mAh. I used the small-capacity 800 mAh battery on the first day, and the camera seemed sluggish and slow to respond underwater. I had purchased a 1200 mAh battery with charger mostly to avoid having to charge the camera with a cable rather than charging the batteries (personal preference): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMWHFMDX?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 . These large-capacity 1200 mAh batteries seemed to make all the difference being able to take a full day of photos and having a better camera response time. Either low or high capacity battery, don't expect this to respond quickly like a DSLR. The Kodak is much more like early days of point and shoot digital cameras in an underwater version.

Let me start with a negative. This camera randomly wiped an SD card I tried to take pictures from. The SD card was as far as I could tell the appropriate kind for this camera and I had it formatted for it ahead of time but when I removed it to upload the pictures to my MacBook it wouldn't take the card back. I haven't had this issue since but now I just plug the camera to my laptop directly and try to grab the pics that way even if it's slower. Also fyi to update the firmware you need to put the firmware file into the SD card and make sure its named EXACTLY how the Kodak site documentation has it. It's not as straight forward as I'm making it sound like, reddit is your friend.

I loved the camera, what i like about it is that you don’t really have to change the setting for pictures to come out good. All i did was turn on flash and the pictures come out amazing!! i definitely recommend if you’re looking for a good quality camera but don’t want to pay thousands for one. I haven’t tried it underwater yet but that’s also a very cool future

Do not buy this product. Nothing but a problem coming out of the box. Did not work as manual expected. WI-FI connection issues, Problems with the phone App, Problems with displaying the photos. User Interface is awful. User Manual is cumbersome and does not solve problems that camera exhibited. Customer Support is via posting and outsourced to TikTok. Not sure why this is on credible top 10 lists. Perhaps it takes nice photos if your camera works properly and you somehow manage to get it set-up. I think the main point of this camera for the manufacturer is to have you go to the manual website and be broadsided with advertisements and click bait.

I have a lot of trouble with this little camera. I still have not perfected how to hold it down to focus correctly. The small screen is also really hard to see with a mask and snorkel on. I have taken 300 pics and can use about 10 of them.

the pictures and quality is worth the price and soo good best digital camera i’ve found in a while!!

I love this camera so much! Would recommend to anyone that would like to have a digital camera for daily life, travel, etc.