Rating: 
Summary: excellent camera, easy to use, great battery life
Review: This camera performs excellently and is an amazing value. I have read many complaints about the battery life, and I haven't had a problem at all with mine. I think it is quite easy on the batteries compared to many cameras I have dealt with. I have never used alkaline batteries with the HP935, so I don't know how it would do with them. I use rechargeable NiMH batteries, because they save you so much $$$.
The other thing people complain about is that it takes 5 seconds from the point when you touch the power button to the time it is ready to take a picture. I can't believe that anyone would actually be upset about a measley 5 seconds. I have an Olympus SLR camera and it takes that long for the flash to power up and the lens to extend and everything to be ready on it as well. Why is 5 seconds so horrible?
I love the feel of the camera in your hands, it is substantial enough that you can feel it there and hold it still, but lightweight enough that it doesn't tire your arms when taking many shots.
The optical zoom is really great, but the digital zoom is only okay. The screen tells you the MP size you are lowering it to when you use the digital zoom, which is nice. All in all, digital zoom isn't very good on any camera, so don't expect much out of it!
I love the video function and the fact it records sound, too. The speaker for playback sounds a little scratchy, but when you play it back on the computer it sounds fine.
You can turn off the LCD display to save batteries if you want, and it will automatically show you a quick preview of the shot you just took. I love that! Also, the optical viewfinder is big enough that it is easy to see out of, a feature that I have a problem with on many other digital cameras.
I think that the optional dock is a waste of money, because you can easily upload your pictures onto the computer using the USB cord that came with the camera. As far as the advantage of the dock charging batteries, you can get a great battery charger with 4 batteries for around 15 bucks and you can have extra batteries always charged and ready to go, and that is a lot cheaper than the 80 or so dollars that HP wants for the dock which only comes with 2 batteries anyway. Skip the dock and save some $$$$! Use the money you save to buy a bigger memory card, you will need one! The 32 MB card it comes with fills quickly, about 23 pictures on the medium compression 5 MB picture quality setting. You will want another card if you like to take lots of pictures. I have a 256 MB card and that works great for me.
The quality of the pictures the HP935 takes is superb. I am just thrilled with it. It is easy to use and a wonderful value. I got mine on buydig.com and they were really nice to me, and everything came as promised. They have the best price I have seen online, even after you add shipping and handling. I definitely recommend this camera!
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding performance and great value!
Review: This camera performs excellently and is an amazing value. I have read many complaints about the battery life, and I haven't had a problem at all with mine. I think it is quite easy on the batteries compared to many cameras I have dealt with. I have never used alkaline batteries with the HP935, so I don't know how it would do with them. I use rechargeable NiMH batteries, because they save you so much $$$.
The other thing people complain about is that it takes 5 seconds from the point when you touch the power button to the time it is ready to take a picture. I can't believe that anyone would actually be upset about a measley 5 seconds. I have an Olympus SLR camera and it takes that long for the flash to power up and the lens to extend and everything to be ready on it as well. Why is 5 seconds so horrible?
I love the feel of the camera in your hands, it is substantial enough that you can feel it there and hold it still, but lightweight enough that it doesn't tire your arms when taking many shots.
The optical zoom is really great, but the digital zoom is only okay. The screen tells you the MP size you are lowering it to when you use the digital zoom, which is nice. All in all, digital zoom isn't very good on any camera, so don't expect much out of it!
I love the video function and the fact it records sound, too. The speaker for playback sounds a little scratchy, but when you play it back on the computer it sounds fine.
You can turn off the LCD display to save batteries if you want, and it will automatically show you a quick preview of the shot you just took. I love that! Also, the optical viewfinder is big enough that it is easy to see out of, a feature that I have a problem with on many other digital cameras.
I think that the optional dock is a waste of money, because you can easily upload your pictures onto the computer using the USB cord that came with the camera. As far as the advantage of the dock charging batteries, you can get a great battery charger with 4 batteries for around 15 bucks and you can have extra batteries always charged and ready to go, and that is a lot cheaper than the 80 or so dollars that HP wants for the dock which only comes with 2 batteries anyway. Skip the dock and save some $$$$! Use the money you save to buy a bigger memory card, you will need one! The 32 MB card it comes with fills quickly, about 23 pictures on the medium compression 5 MB picture quality setting. You will want another card if you like to take lots of pictures. I have a 256 MB card and that works great for me.
The quality of the pictures the HP935 takes is superb. I am just thrilled with it. It is easy to use and a wonderful value. I got mine on buydig.com and they were really nice to me, and everything came as promised. They have the best price I have seen online, even after you add shipping and handling. I definitely recommend this camera!
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Summary: The best camera alive! If you don't have it your out of date
Review: This camera seems to take good shots outdoors in well lit areas but I use it mostly indoors and rarely like the effect that the flash produces so I often turn it off. This then produces blurry shots (I assume the lens is staying open to compensate for the low light) even if someone is just moving thier arm it most often comes out as a big blur. I also seem to notice an overall high level of noise in these situations, sometimes even with the flash. I don't think I'd be buying an HP camera again. If you plan on using it outdoors in the sun it may work great for you. I personally don't like the controls either.
Rating: 
Summary: HP sets a new standard in substandard technical assistance
Review: This is a really great camera, but just try and call HP tecnical or customer service to ask about upgrades, and you will be sent from incoherent message to incoherent message without access to a human being to answer questions. I cannot believe HP would put a product on the market and walk away from their customers!
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Summary: Impressive package
Review: This is a really great camera.
I used to have a HP 318 which was awful.I is rather heavy on the batteries (2xGP1800mAh) but the lcd display is really great but you can easily switch it off. It kinda just shows the image after it has been snapped which is nice. It is a really heavy and solid camera. The HP has the nice feature of quickly deleting the image while storing it. At 5MP i did not see much difference in the compression algorith between the * ** *** modes the files sizes being 512k, 1.2MB and 2.4-3.8MB only saw distortion when I zoomed in 6x.
You can store upto 208 photoes at 5MP and 1*, which is great size for emailing. The video mode is not great but only for close proximity videos(130k/sec). Just a note on the CD install, copy the HPSW dir to your PC and ecit the ini file to remove the last . after 945 otherwise the install will fail, HP has posted a update CD which can be ordered. There is also newer firmware for the camera posted 31/04/2003 which fixes some images. One really cool undocumented feature is this camera is also USB Flash Drive. PS this camera is is a USB 1.1 device but USB2 interface compliant. Perhaps there will be a firmware update later.
I wish it came with a camera bag. Cheers
Rating:
Summary: BEST CAMERA
Review: This is a very good camera with an easy-to-use interface. It has very good quality and helpful features. It does guzzle batteries, but you can solve that easily by purchasing a AA recharger. The only bad thing is the lack of carrying case, but those are a dime a dozen.
Rating: 
Summary: very poor chose
Review: This was my first experience with a digital camera. I had heard great things about digital cameras and thought that I would invest in a good camera. I was dead wrong.
I totally soured on digital after using this camera. I have invested countless dollors in batteries, sd cards, and other accesories.
Can only use this camera for 2-3 pictures even without a flash before batteries go dead.
The recharger does not work, we cannot use it at all. It takes 1-2 minutes of warm up time before it even turns on. Then is only good for 2-3 pictures.
I THINK THAT IT MUST EAT BATTERIES OR SOMETHING.
WORTHLESS PIECE OF JUNK.
Rating:
Summary: so far so good
Review: Well, what can i say. It's really a fantastic camera. i took only 50 pics in these 5 days, and the camera works great. Fast fast and fast. You can see the pictures really fast on the LCD, and just plug it in to the 8886 Digital Camera Dock and click the button. That's it, it dowloads the pictures and store them into dated files so you can remember when you took them. You have the option to delete the downloaded pictures or leave them in the camera. The menu is easy to use and i didn't even open the manual. I bought the SD256M-P card and now I will store 97 pictures @ 5.3MP. I am waiting tomorrow to see how the new card will do and then will let you know if i have problems. i know there was the same card for less in amazon, but i spent more and bought the new one, with the -P in the end. I bought also a Tamrac 5692 - Digital 2 Bag for the camera and I am set.
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