Martin O'Donnell reports from the West Coast Bureau:

I was at Costco yesterday and noticed that there was apparently a major price drop on the Kodak DX4530, a 5-megapixel model with 3x zoom. Earlier this month it was $390, yesterday it was $340, and the Kodak site now reports MSRP of $299. We had been looking at the cheaper DX4350 (same camera in 3-megapixel) and found it to be fairly well reviewed.

....One feature {of the DX4530} that I liked was a particularly large (32MB) internal memory. I'm hoping that is big enough to allow us to put off buying SD format memory for a while.

BTW, I was seriously looking at used, open box, etc., on eBay. Cameras from sellers I wanted to buy from were going for about $200 delivered for 3 and 4 megapixel models, it didn't seem worthwhile compared to the price we found for a new 5 megapixel with a warranty.

The Kodak EasyShare DX4530 is one of the most aggressively priced 5 megapixel digital cameras on the market today. The only 5 megapixel digital camera that we could find that is priced lower than it is the
Gateway DC-M50.