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Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE Digital Camera Creative Kit

Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE Digital Camera Creative Kit

List Price: $99.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love it baby!!
Review: It was so cool. I am 12 years old. I just bought this resently, and it is great. Me and my friends love it. We love haveing all the copies we wont of pic. Buy this now if your smart!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA
Review: Other than buying this for a young child to experience the digital camera world, I would not recommend that anyboy purchase this camera. I purchased it thinking I could use it to put pictures on ebay, but oh, I was wrong. If there is any light in the room, the camera pictures have a white background. If you turn the flash off, you can't see. If you turn the flash on, it turns white again. I know its reasonably valued, but remember, you truly get what you pay for. Invest in something else unless you really are buying this for a child between the ages of 3-5.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great buy!!!
Review: SIMPLE to use, it doesnt have a screen but for the money this thing is incredible. This is great for E-bay or sending picture of any kind over the internet. I would reccomend this to any of my friends. A+++++

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Happy Owner
Review: Since owning the Polaroid PDC6400cf I have made many photos of different situations inside and outside.My landscape results have been most satisifing.Interrior shots have been satisifing with lighting of interior lights.Flash photos have been ok,but not the best.Ease of operation most satisifing.Battery life without using the monitor held up well.Thanks Poladoid for my beginners digital camera.Harry S.Adams

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Incompatible with WinXP
Review: The camera is lightweight and comes with the USB/serial port attachments, but unfortunately it's not compatible with WinXP. Going to the Polaroid website is no help. After emailing and searching the site, I found the appropriate drivers for XP.

Taking pictures is a snap, the instructions are very easy to follow, the pictures are so-so, best to take pics during daylight. It's a good entry into digi-cam if you're not familiar with uploading pics to the computer.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Incompatible with WinXP
Review: The camera is lightweight and comes with the USB/serial port attachments, but unfortunately it's not compatible with WinXP. Going to the Polaroid website is no help. After emailing and searching the site, I found the appropriate drivers for XP.

Taking pictures is a snap, the instructions are very easy to follow, the pictures are so-so, best to take pics during daylight. It's a good entry into digi-cam if you're not familiar with uploading pics to the computer.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Can't beat it for the price!
Review: There's a flash, auto focus, and it's very compact. There are no fancy gadgets and it doesn't take the BEST digital photos...but it's great for someone like me, who likes to send weekly photos to my relatives via e-mail. It comes with some really good software too. I can take a photo in Washington state, and my sister will have that photo 4 minutes later in Missouri. So I give it 5 stars because it was so darn inexpensive there's no room for complaint. Needs AA batteries.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Money isnt everything
Review: This camera is excellent. It takes clear pictures and is easy to use right out of the box. Dont let the price bother you, this is a great deal. Indoor or outdoor, pictures are high-quality. One hint, skip the flash most of the time. It seems too bright for most purposes.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very Good Camera
Review: This camera is good for begeinners as well as advanced photographers! it is easy and quick at loading pictures to your computer and comes with good software! I Highly Reccomend this Digitil Camera For Anyone even if photography isint your fav. hobbie!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: you seriously get what you pay for
Review: This camera is nothing special. It's cheap, which is good (especially for people like me). But the picture quality really isn't that good, and I'm saying this wholeheartedly.

I bought it for my website. I write stupid and sometimes not so stupid articles about random things, and I thought it was about time I had a functional digital camera to help flesh them out.

I've had this thing for about two weeks now, and I've come to this conclusion: really good/not-so-bad pictures are only available under bright daylight, while any other condition usually produces very average/poor-looking photographs.

Indoors is mostly a no-no, unless you have a lot of light (opening some windows does help). The photographs from normally-lit indoor settings create an ugly grainy effect. Also, even if the camera is completely still and so is your subject, it ocassionally looks like you've been moving the camera while the shutter was open -- making the pictures unnecessarily blurry.

In fact, I haven't had much luck with the quality of the focus -- almost all of my results look a tad blurry.

The software DOES work with Windows XP, you just have to go to Polaroid's official site and read a tutorial on how to get it to a functional state.

If you have Photoshop, the "special effects" that can be used on your photographs are entirely useless. Even if you don't, you probably won't be using them all that often (one finds only so much excitement out of making a picture look incredibly distorted).

Then there's a problem with even well-lit daylight pictures -- at it's normal resolution (640x480), it can sometimes look like a painting. Instead of nice detailed surroundings, you may have little blobs of color everywhere. Reducing the size helps matters, but it's unforunate that I have to do that anyway. The size 640x480 isn't asking for a lot, now is it?

The packaging itself is less than stellar, too. The camera is made out of thin plastic that sometimes feels like it's going to break.

The uploading speed is fast, if you have a USB connection. And it's a great camera for starters, especially younger kids who sometimes could care a less about how great or how not great their pictures look. It IS a digital camera, it DOES make pictures appear onto your computer. So they'll have some enjoyment with it at least.

But I myself am frankly disappointed. What else could I expect from a camera this cheap? I'm looking forward to another digital camera purchase soon. Compared to the more reliable expensive cameras, this is just a piece of junk.


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