If you like a camera with all the trimmings, the DC240i won't disappoint you. Kodak has gone out of its way to pack in almost everything that's needed, with a set of NiMH rechargeable batteries, complete with charger (but no power supply for the camera) and two sets of Alkaline cells. From this you might wonder if the DC240i is particularly greedy with batteries, but it's no worse than others in the group.

Then there are connecting leads. The camera can connect to either serial or USB ports on your PC and leads are provided for both sockets. There's even a comfortably sized carrying pouch for camera and kit.

The feature-set of the camera is no less impressive. It includes a 3x optical zoom as well as 2x digital and both viewfinder and LCD monitor show the level of zoom. The menu system is easy to use, with bold icons and lettering which is easy to read, even in sunlight. Navigation buttons are sensibly positioned around the monitor screen.

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Images, recorded onto the supplied 8MB CompactFlash card, are well reproduced, though the camera had slight trouble over-exposing the flower in the macro test shot. Kodak provides basic effects and borders that can be added within the camera, as well as the best bundled software in the group - Adobe's PhotoDeluxe and PageMill.

Although the DC240i is priced at £449, if you can do without the snappy iMac-y colour scheme, you can pick up the internally identical DC240 Zoom for around £50 less.