Rating: Summary: Good for the money but what about Date/Time stamping? Review: Regrettably I had to take this little camera back after 2 days use. I was generally pleased with images obtainable which looked good on screen and printed very well (compared to the Olympus C100/D370 which was plagued with digital noise) on my Epson 1440dpi printer.The package came with power supply, soft case and reasonably good software and represented good value for money. BUT... in none of the menus is there any way to set the internal calendar and clock, nor is any mention made of it in the otherwise good user manual. Had I realised that there was no Date/Time stamping I would not have bothered buying it in the first place. The really frustrating part is that the camera has a working calendar/clock in it which boots up to some random Date/Time on insertion of the batteries. I became aware of this when transferring images into the PC. Each image has a Date/Time stamp applied to it by the camera at the time of creation, in my camera's case it was 01/01/2001 1:58am, so my first shot (taken at approx. 3pm on 11th Nov. 2001) was stamped 01/01/2001 2:01am... next shot 01/01/2001 2:06am and so on. So, if you don't care about when your shots were taken, it's great value. Otherwise buy something else. Rick
Rating: Summary: WARNING - NOT MAC-Compatible Review: Something that is not made clear is that this otherwise well featured camera will not download to a Mac without having to purchase separate 3rd party CompactFlash card and USB CF card reader ($$). Polaroid's driver is Win95>XP only. Polaroid's own website product description fails to mention this, much less Amazon's. You have to read the owner's manual to finally glean this vital item. If you have a Wintel machine, this is a nice camera. If you have a real computer and already have a CF card and reader, then great. Otherwise, be prepared to have to buy more gear before being able to use your camera.
Rating: Summary: SATISFACTORY BUT........ Review: The PDC 1320 performs fine according to its price, resolution is good, colors are good, the camera in general works weel but the flash could be more powerful. What I didn't find good was the Polaroid service, my camera is still covered by the warranty, I have had some problems with the camera (the cable is not working properly) I wrote two emails to Polaroid and they don't even bother themselves to give me an answer.
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