Kodak's late-run budget compact — 14MP 1/2.3in CCD, 5x 33-165mm-equiv zoom, 3in LCD, AA power, SD/SDHC.
The EasyShare C195 was one of the last of Kodak's budget C-series compacts, released in 2010 as the company's camera business wound down toward its 2012 exit. It offered an unusually long zoom and big screen for its bargain price.
It pairs a 14-megapixel 1/2.3in CCD with a 5x optical zoom covering 33-165mm equivalent, composed on a 3.0in LCD. Kodak's Smart Capture mode identifies the scene and sets the camera automatically, backed by face recognition and blur-reduction processing. Storage is 32MB internal plus an SD/SDHC slot (cards up to 32GB), and power comes from two AA batteries.
For casual shooters it remains a genuinely usable cheap digicam: the 165mm-equivalent reach outguns most budget rivals of its day and AA power means it can be revived from any corner shop. The small, densely packed 14MP sensor is noisy above base ISO, so it rewards daylight snapshots over anything ambitious, and there is no HD video to speak of.
Late-production EasyShares are abundant used, so prioritise clean examples. Consumables are painless - AA cells and SD/SDHC cards - but check the battery door and tripod-area plastics for cracks, confirm the longer 5x zoom extends and retracts without grinding, and inspect the 3.0in screen closely since scratches show badly on these gloss finishes.