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Summary: 3 megapixel piece of junk
Review: I was suspicious of this camera when I read some initial reviews of it online. Now having tried it in person, it confirms all the bad things I've heard.The biggest disappointment was that a 3 megapixel camera could take such poor pictures. Consistency is the key here. This camera cannot take consistently good pictures. You have to constantly change the settings to get a half decent picture. If I wanted the hassle with the guess and check, I would have bought a [$$] digital camera. What this basically means is, wait until this camera drops to the sub [$$$] price range. The pictures always come out over exposed or underexposed, and they're usually grainy and blurry. It's a nightmare trying to figure out what settings will allow you to take good indoor pictures. With other cameras, especially the ones canon and fuji make, if you have lighting problems, you turn your flash off, hold the camera still and hope that the available light will make a good photo. With those cameras, it usually does. This camera has something wrong with the processor or software, and instead of taking the picture, it tries to compensate by delaying the exposure time to 2-4 seconds, which washes out the picture completely. I know it's inanimate, but I still call it stupid. Outdoors, however, this camera is fine. In fact, you should use this camera strictly outdoors and always with flash. It's a daytime camera and does well to have diffused lighting. That's why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. If you somehow end up with this camera, use it outdoors. It is pretty small, but not small enough that I'd want to carry it around. Load time is not quick enough for a snapshot and quality will be bad 2 times out of three. If I want a camera to carry around, I'd get a disposable. It does have a video feature with sound, but the quality is worse than motion captures on similar products. It records in .mpg format, if that's a plus for you, well, good for you. Again, a disappointment if you pay more than [$$$] for this camera.
Rating: 
Summary: In this case, you get what you pay for...
Review: If you're looking for a camera with lots of creature features and super clear pics, look elsewhere. This is a basic camera, with the right amount of features for the price. It's a good starter camera, but do not expect to use alkaline batteries with this one. You WILL NEED 2100mah or better AA NiMH rechargeables. It does have decent battery life with a set of those, but for all day shooting, I'd recommend carrying at least an extra pair of these batteries. The software that comes with the camera has good features for a beginner. If you're looking to do professional pix with this camera...FORGET IT. If you want something that will take acceptable pictures for digital storage or email, then this camera will fill the bill. It does decent 640x480 video with audio, with a 256MB SD card, it will give you about 20 minutes (provided your batteries do not run out first).
Rating: 
Summary: Superb digital camera!
Review: hp has finally begun to make some cool cameras. hp 435 is an entry level digital camera perfect for those who are new to digital photography. At 3MP its a great and the camera looks veyr (nice). Its small, pocketable and works fast. The image quality is excellent and the shutter lag is minimal. You can even make your movies using it! Once again to summarize the hp 435 is an excellent bang-for-buck camera. Thanks hp!!!
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Summary: Shame on HP!
Review: I bought this camera for a friend of mine about to have a baby. Well I opened it for them this weekend to show them how to use it etc.. I was HORRIBLY dissapointed. The screen is the worst! It appears to have about 4 pixels and has got the lowest refresh rate I've ever seen. It's quite hard to see what you're taking a picture of, and you must stabilize and sit still for a moment before you can use it at all. The picture quality... Well I only have my own camera to compare it to. The Elph SD100.. which has the same resolution as this camera.. so I expected the picture quality to be similar. Not so! The pictures just seem so lifeless compared to my other camera. It also seems like it doesn't compensate for lighting as well. Construction seems cheap.. it weighs about as much as a plastic disposable camera. I can not believe I wasted about $230 on this junk. I bought it before it was released thinking it was the latest and greatest from HP. Little did I know.. this camera was intended to break price barriers... NOT performance barriers. One thing I will say. It is easy to use. Very very simple design and interface. (too simple.. no good toys for the serious picture taker) If someone writes up a good review for this camera, it has to be that they've never used a quality digital camera before. Period. This thing is a dog! If you're looking for a cheap camera for a VERY simple point & click type person who doesn't mind buying stock in Duracell.. and none too computer savey.. this camera will do. But I seriously wouldn't pay more than $100 for it.
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Summary: more for less
Review: i have tested a few low budget digital cams (kodak cx6200 (awful), HP 620 (bad pictures), canon a300 (also a great cam) and the fujifilm a205 (too much price for what you get) and i don't understand the problems with the quality of the pictures. the hp 435 can make very beautiful and clear pictures, very sharp and colourfull (30bit!). you must have 2100 mah nimh batteries, then you can take a lot of pictures (about 450!!!) with TFT screen turned on.
-??????????LCD viewfinder shows everything in yellow and moves in slow motion, so you really don't have an idea of exactly what you are taking a picture of??????????- i think it's a joke or something, my viewfinder is good, good colours and no slow motion.
in my opinion the hp 435 is a great cam with great futures and beautiful and very sharp pictures. fast picture taken and video with sounds (it's just for fun).
with the 3.14 CCD the 5x zoom is good to use. software is very friendly to use.
and the price.......... (sorry for my english, I know it's not very good)
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Summary: Awful! Awful! Awful!
Review: I regret not harassing the customer service guy at Circuit City to get me new batteries and really investigating this camera before I bought it. It didn't even take me 5 minutes to determine that I would be returning this junk that they sell as a camera. 3.2 MP as listed has to be a lie. I've been much much better quality images from a 1 MP camera. The zoom pixelation is awful, the only clear pictures came when zoom wasn't used. LCD viewfinder shows everything in yellow and moves in slow motion, so you really don't have an idea of exactly what you are taking a picture of. Battery life of this camera is at best 30 mins. Within 5 mins, I was not able to use the LCD viewfinder and could only view the optical view due to lack of battery, then about 10 after that, the battery was completely drained. The only positive to this camera is that the software is easy to use PERIOD. This was going to be a gift for a child who is 14 yrs old. This camera doesn't even suffice for that purpose. No doubt, this camera was returned immediately. Take my advice a quality camera for $149 IS indeed too good to be true...don't waste you time with this camera.
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Summary: HP PhotoSmart 435 sucks
Review: This camera takes really lousy pictures - one can see granulations even at the highest quality setting when taking any sort of pictures indoors with the flash turned off. The pictures were often outof focus even in strong light. Things are better with the flash turned on but only for closeup shots. Still the colors leave much to be desired. Do not buy this camera if you want to take any pictures indoors. It also ate up the battery that came with it very quickly. Featurewise it looks good - but picture quality sucks royally.
This is at best a 1MP camera masquerading as a 3.3MP one ; I agree with the reviewer who said that HP stands accused of deceptive advertising. Had expected better.
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Summary: Nice second digital camera
Review: The Photosmart 435 is one of the lowest priced 3 megapixel cameras in the market. It combines ease of use, high-quality materials, and diminuitive size with all the features you would come to expect in this price range. One of the nicest features is video recording capability with sound limited only by camera memory. This is an ideal second or spare camera. With the low cost of ownership, you can feel free taking the Photosmart 435 along on those trips where you would think twice taking your $500+ camera. This camera would make a great gift for teenagers and students. Forgo any HP accessories, and just pick up some decent rechargeable batteries and a case. HP created the 435 by omitting the most costly features. What you won't find here are an optical zoom lens and the normal bundled accessories (such as rechargeable batteries, memory cards, cases, AC/DC charging adapters, etc). The Photosmart 435 also sacrifices high-quality imaging in favor of lower cost, so don't expect archival digital images. If you consider the cost of the camera, then the images are more than adequate and well suited for email and web pages.
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Summary: Something's Missing?
Review: Advantages:
Price- For the price, I guess that this could be considered a decent camera. But this camera is definitely a case of getting what you pay for.
Size- This camera easily fits into a purse or a coat pocket, which is typically important to the point and shoot consumer. Disadvantages:
Photo clarity-it seems that HPs target market is the beginning digital user, however, I am guessing that they also assumed that for the price, this beginning user 1. should not expect much and 2. would not know enough about digital technology to know the difference. The quality of the photos that this camera produces is not nearly as good as the 2.1 megapixel camera that my parents use for taking photos of the grandkids. Zoom: again, given the price, I have to qualify with the fact that one shouldn't exactly expect a state of the art experience. However, HP should have just left the zoom feature out altogether. You may be able to get a relatively decent photo at 1X (even relative to the subpar quality of the photos with no zoom) anything higher than that and you will have to pull out grandma's bifocals to get rid of the fuzz. HP Product Presentation - If HP had just come clean and called the camera what it really is, something for your pre-teen to use to take photos of kids with braces at the movies, then I would not have been as disappointed. The fact that this is advertised as a 3.3MP camera and a camera that will take great pictures could be considered false advertising. This one will definitely be heading back east to the 13 year old niece to use with her friends, where it belongs.
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Summary: HP doesn't have a product with this one.
Review: I join the throngs of the dissappointed on this one; HP does't even have a marketable product here. I'ts all true- terrible white-scale aberations in low light, fixed focus and it looks like it. One set of batteries (2xAA) exceeds the worth of the camera, and will only take a few pictures for them to be exausted. I was the unlucky recipient of one as a gift, I'm giving it to my Beagle as a chew toy. By comparison, I picked up a Vivitar 3610 on a blister-pack for twenty dollars (software, cables, NTSC and Pal movie output [with cable]) and, whilst it's 2MP as oposed to the HP's 3.2MP, it takes remarkable pictures, the Vivitar has it all over the HP. So, stop counting megapixels and look at the pictures. Now, if I could only get my puppy to take an interest in digital photography....
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