I would like to say that I am surprised that no-one has even mentioned this superb bang-for-the-buck camera and anyone interested will have to look on DPReview's Kodak Talk Forum to see what it is capable of.

I'm also surprised that this particular Kodak Forum was last posted on almost a year ago despite having (for Steve's) a relatively healthy number of viewers.

Kodak an awesome cam. Yep ALIVE wake.

52X optical zoom $300.00 who can complain about that I think I lookeda t one of their latest models and did not care personally for it

Nov be a year from my POST ha ha ha

Fishy, the last AZ526's on UK's Argos store were £90 near as dammit... (139 USD), and for those who could live without dioptric correction for the EVF would, IMO, be getting an unrepeatable bargain. A poster on the Kodak Talk Forum has shown that the cam more than holds its own against more expensive models of its nature and lovers of the traditional Kodak colour would be happy.

I now have 22 digicams (mostly eBay cheapies) and this is where I stop!