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Summary: HP 612 doesn't cut it in todays digital camera market
Review: 2.3 megapixels....you'd expect near perfect quality and great photos every shot right? Well if you think that, then try a different camera, because this HP does not give you near perfect quality pics. At the best quality the camera can hold 6 pictures in it's internal memory, and the pictures are a huge display of 1792 X 1200 with a DPI of ONLY 300. Also every picture taken is different from the last, there is no image consistency. Oh, and if you are wanting to use the camera for low light shots, think again because the pictures get really grainy in the dark. Now if the camera has an ability to capture 2.3 megapixels, where are these mysterious pixels vanishing too? This question has also led me to another question, why did I buy this camera. Both lead to the same answer... "I don't know."
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Summary: 2.3MP is all you need for great 5"x7" photos
Review: After being around Digital Cameras my entire high school life I decided that it was time to get one for myself. After watching my friend blow [money] on a 4MP camera that he will never use to its full potential I decited that this was the camera for me. It is realy simple to use and is a very tough camera compared to what is out there today. I only noticed two problems: 1 is that it goes through batt like water (I highly recomend a batt charger and a CF card reader), and 2 that is slows down when taking high res pictures. Other than that the CF expantion slot is nice (I have 128MB which gets 1953 low res, 277 med res, and +100 high res pictures) and I recomend it to any one who needs a good digital camera
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Summary: Highly Reccomend It
Review: After shopping around long and hard, I finally decided on the HP 612. I think my biggest reason for choosing it was the optical zoom. Which by the way, works quite well. No one ever seems to talk about picture quality in reviews. Well I'm going to. The pictures as they come straight out of the camera are a little bit grainy. But it comes with ACD photo software, and all you have to do is click enhance, despeckle, and adjust your level, and it looks better than a lot of point and shoot 35mm cameras. It captures skin tones very well, it captures the complex greens in outdoor settings, and the lighting is very accurate. I'm very pleased with the quality of the photos after playing with them in the software. It has a very nice preview screen, as most digital cameras now do, and a very simple interface. Its somewhat bulky, but still very comfortable to use. And you just don't find optical zoom in this price range. Overall, I think I made the best decision for my price range and needs, and I highly reccomend this camera.
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Summary: excellent for the $$$$
Review: camera takes nice pix, wait for the ready, and the pix will be great, jump the shot and it comes out dark. connection to the pc is a snap. this camera is just like the 318 except it has 2x optical zoom. for the money and a 1 year warranty from hp. its a good buy. batteries, it eats batteries!!!!!!!
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Summary: Dissapointed
Review: For the money this camera did not meet my expectations. All of the pictures were grainy and dark. Takes great pictures outdoors, but indoors, it was terrible. Since you can't adjust anything on this camera, there is nothing you can do but live with it. The 'shutter speed' is slow. It took forever to take the picture. I exchanged this camera in 2 days. Even after we used software to fix the pictures, they still looked bad. (We bought an HP photosmart printer and the pictures looked bad. It wasn't the printer, but the source: THE CAMERA!) Granted I'm new to the digital camera world, but I would have expected this quality from a 1.X mega pixel camera. Spend a little more money on an Olympus and get a camera you'll like. The picture quality is not worth the price of this camera. I wouldn't recomend this camera to the very novice buyer. It's terrible.
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Summary: I love this camera!
Review: Great camera for the price. The camera fuctions were easy to learn. Great for a beginnner.
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Summary: Dont start with this camera, you will hate all others
Review: Have a very bad experience with this camera,
-never think about having good picture using the medim and high quality options
-never expect an indoor good quality
-battery eater
-sometimes you have to manually push lens if it stop moving
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Summary: Mixed news
Review: I am new to digital cameras, and picked up one of these. I found a few things that I didn't care for (see the reviews for the 318, similar comments). First, the focusing process seemed slow, I'd guess upwards of a second to focus. Second, the display image, when using it as a viewfinder, was very dark and hard to use. In display mode (reviewing your pics) it was also quite coarse and grainy. It also seemed to have what in a film camera would be a very slow shutter speed-inside, with room light (and flash) it had a tendency to blur pics unless the camera was held rock steady. I am exchanging it for a Fuji 2600, for only slightly more money. To me, it seems to be a better camera, and has none of the problems described above. LCD display is much sharper and brighter, doesn't seem to have the same propensity to bluring, and is a 3X optical zoom to boot. I really wanted to like the HP, due to familiarity with their other products. In all honesty, it seems to be a very solid camera, and would probably preform adequatly. Setup of the software was simple and straightforward.
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Summary: Not Bad! Good Seller Should buy from him again... prob will
Review: I bought a camera from him and i gave it a 4 because the cam says 2.31 megapixels and the cam i had was 2.1 megapixel also from hp and the thing is that this cam is not performing 2.31 megapixel i am sure of it.. the pics from the 2.1 cam was better than the one i just bought from him *refurbished* 2.31.... anyways i will not return it because I woudn't want to wait an other week ... if you give me a chance i like to return it and get the one i had before which got stolen .. it's the one before this one so email me to yamelmontero@hotmail.com and let me know the price is not far apart less than 20 dollars but this one cost more so it's ok... bye.
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Summary: Good camera for the price
Review: I bought this camera for a present for my wife. We found it to
be easy to learn on and quite flexible. The software was easy enough to download and instruction booklet was quite informative. I found this camera to be a value at the price and did quite a bit of comparison shopping before making the purchase. Would recommend to the novice or even the more experienced.
Just wish manufacturers would include more memory instead of minimal so you are forced to buy an additional flash card
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