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Summary: Excellent camera (till now)
Review: I have used this camera for over 3 years with great success, but recently I droped it, and now I'm told it would need a new circuit board, so I'm looking for a used camera to buy, one perhaps with a missing control knob. otherwise this one is for sale.
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Summary: Excellent camera until the piece broke
Review: I think this camera is an easy to use camera. It takes excellent pictures. I had my camera for a year and two months, when on vacation, the piece broke that you push to take pictures and also to change modes. I think the price I was quoted to fix this is outrageous. When I called I was told that this is a problem that occurs with this type of camera. I can put a few more dollars to purchase a new camera. So now I have an unuseable expensive camera! It was nice while it lasted.
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Summary: Works very well for a novice digital camera user.
Review: It took me awhile to finally decide on this camera and I am not sorry at all. I used Amazon.com and other buying networks to find out what customers thought of various cameras. One of the things I quickly found out you need to pay attention to is the battery life. That's something I would have never thought about on my own and this camera is a gem. It comes with a rechargeable battery and an adapter which plugs right into the side of the camera. I found that it recharges in no time at all. I also found that is you don't keep the LCD going all the time you can get hours of shooting time without worrying. There is a nifty battery level indicator available to you when you take a pic. Another thing I heard horror stories about was downloading the pics. In my package I got a USB cable and the image software. Is instantaneous too fast. I loved it. With little fanfare I had my pics on my PC ready to do whatever. My only complaint is that there image software is no good for true color printing. It presents the pic in the right color but something gets lost in the translation to the printer. Photoshop is much better when it comes to printing. It was also very very easy to view the pics through the TV. My husband and I were recently on vacation in the Florida Keys which is famous for it's sunsets. Needless to say we had a zillion sunset pics and wanted to narrow it down. It was nice to see them on a 27 inch screen to make final decisions on which ones to keep. Most of any tinkering you want to do is very easily done through a pretty good menu system. I hate reading the book and the only time I really had to do it was when I wanted to make sure I had everything to download my pics to my PC and when I wanted to learn how to save pics from accidentally being deleted. That's another pretty good feature in that you can lock certain pics and they have to be unlocked in order to delete them. Saves a lot of heart ache if you get trigger happy and make a mistake. I have to say the auto feature gave some of the night time pics red eye. Otherwise the pics were right on but those people with brown eyes tended to look red. Not sure why cause those with eyes of another color were just fine. As for the manual operation of this camera... I am going to have to read the book to fully understand all that I can control. I don't mind since this little gem, weighs almost nothing, was ready to go once it was charged up.
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Summary: Tragic design flaw
Review: Just wanted to add another confirmation that this camera is mechanically flawed. The design of the control dial/shutter button assembly is horrendous (which you'll get to see for yourself once it breaks off if you buy this camera). Basically, when you turn the dial, you're exerting lots of pressure against 4 tiny plastic pins that hold the dial assembly together. In my case, the dial broke off just after the warranty expired. Having called around, it sounds like it'd be a minimum of $150 to fix it, including shipping. And even if it were fixed, I think its safe to assume it would break again in a year or so.
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Summary: Good first digital camera
Review: My wife bought this camera for me 2 years ago based on some recommendations from people online. At the time, it was on the high end of cameras available at 2.1Mpixels. Things I like:
- the LCD is pretty good quality, and zooming to examine the picture is easy
- compression is good - I can fit about 130 images in the highest quality on a 128MB card (~1MB each)
- USB interface is quick enough
- uses SmartMedia cards, which are small and light Overall, I really like the camera, but it has a few quirks I'd look to fix when buying a replacement:
- no manual focus, which wouldn't be a problem if the focus time wasn't slow (up to 2-3 seconds, depending on the scene)
- no manual zoom, and the digital zoom is pretty poor
- prone to motion blurs, not just by the subject moving but also by jittery camera people
- flash is bright, but tends to cause the subject to be very washed out if within 5 feet or so And of course, I have a few nit-pick items:
- switching modes is slow, from photo to preview and back
- doesn't save display settings between sessions (e.g. turning off the LCD)
- the LCD is dark in bright sunlight Overall, I really have gotten my wear out of this camera over the last two years and have been very satisfied with it. The manual focus and optical zoom will be key features in my next purchase, but haven't really hindered my efforts with this camera.
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Summary: Do not buy this camera
Review: The mode dial (the round dial on the top right of the camera) falls off after a year or so of gentle, infrequent use. Many consumers have purchased this camera and found themselves writing reviews on the web after the dial fell off. Toshiba charges the price of a new camera to repair it. The mode dial is held on by two tiny black 1MM plastic tabs that pop out easily and cannot be reinserted. The camera is clearly defective and should be recalled. Users have reported the same problem with PDR-M60.
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Summary: Do not buy this camera
Review: The mode dial (the round dial on the top right of the camera) falls off after a year or so of gentle, infrequent use. Many consumers have purchased this camera and found themselves writing reviews on the web after the dial fell off. Toshiba charges the price of a new camera to repair it. The mode dial is held on by two tiny black 1MM plastic tabs that pop out easily and cannot be reinserted. The camera is clearly defective and should be recalled. Users have reported the same problem with PDR-M60.
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Summary: GREAT STARTER CAMERA
Review: The only thing I can say bad about this camera is the special battery that this camera uses (you'll have to special order a spare). The included software makes it easy to touch-up the beautiful pictures it takes. I upgraded mine to use a 128MB SmartMedia card so I can take over 130 full 1MB pictures that are always sharp and focused. I haven't had any problems with any buttons on mine and I've had it for almost two years now. If you don't know anything about digital cameras, I'm telling you right now, this is a no-brainer as a GREAT Starter Camera!!!
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Summary: Great photos, but faulty mode dial
Review: The quality of the photos is great on the highest resolution setting. Zoomed in the photos are not as clear. After 2 years the mode dial popped off and I'm now looking for a new camera. Cost to repair is $[money].
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Summary: Great photos, but faulty mode dial
Review: The quality of the photos is great on the highest resolution setting. Zoomed in the photos are not as clear. After 2 years the mode dial popped off and I'm now looking for a new camera. Cost to repair is $[money].
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