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Summary: HP Delivers with the R707
Review: HP finally delivers a Camera that puts themselves above the crowd. I've been a fan of HP for a long time and the HP R707 is a big jump in quality from their previous cameras. The first thing I noticed was the speed. Everything from taking pictures to navigating the menus was lightning fast. HP has also packed the camera with great software. Built into the camera are features for removing red eye, making panoramic scenes, adjusting bad lighting in pictures...ect. The camera also does not use double A batteries, which I always burned through on my previous cameras. I was able to use the camera continuously for about two hours constantly using the flash and lcd screen with the lithium-ion batteries.I had no problems with the software and the camera was synced in under 10 minutes. I really like the Arcsoft panoramic maker. I give the Camera four out of five stars because I thought HP should of included a Secure Digital memory card with the camera. It does not come with a removable memory card and I thought that was cheap on their behalf. Overall, I highly recommend this camera if you are looking for a point and shoot device.
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Summary: Great combination of quality and features
Review: I compared r707 and Canon SD110 3.2 Megapixels which were tagged at the same price. Both of them are great cameras, infact I chose to buy r707 as it has 5.1 megapixels and I could not find any problems with the picture quality. I took several pictures in different settings using both the cameras, and the results were amazing......Picture advice is also a good feature..
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Summary: Ugly, terrible quality
Review: I could live with the absolutely ugly styling on this camera, since I got it as a prize so didn't have to pay for it, but the quality was totally bizarrely bad. First of all the menu didn't quite work and had a slight lag, which was very annoying. Then after a week of light use it completely went dead. (It came in retail packaging and was apparently a new unit.) At first I thought it was the battery but it wasn't. The camera just had very bad quality.
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Summary: Fantastic Camera
Review: I have had this camera for about a week now and my pictures are the best I have ever seen. The Image Advise feature has improved my photo skills 10 fold. I now feel like an expert photographer. The panorama feature makes for some stunning shots. And the "in camera Red Eye Removal" works flawlessly. This is truly the greatest pocket camera I have ever owned. I recommend it to all my friends and would buy it again in a heart beat.
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Summary: what you see is what you get
Review: I have the HP Photosmart R707 since a few days. This is my first digital photo camera, although I already own a digital video camera from Canon. I bought the R707 because I want to take good pictures without worrying about all the manual control menu options and features. Point and click. However with this camera I do have those other options available for more experimenting when I want to. My experience so far: I've taken a few pictures indoors and outdoors, sometimes in difficult situations like a bright light in the background of the subject or high contrast pictures alternating bright sunshine and dark shadows and I have loaded these into iPhoto within Mac OS X 10.3.4 I've also tried out the video recording feature. Positive points:
a) the body is small, compact, easy to hold, it feels and looks classy. The buttons are easily reached, the LCD display can be dimmed or brightened in 3 steps, enough to read well in bright sunshine. The R707 comes with 32MB RAM built in, so I can take 17 high resolution pictures (5.1 MB with middle strength compression i.e. 2 stars) without even inserting an sd card. b) I find the buttons are easily reached and a number of menu items can be chosen by using them without needing to scroll through menu items by using the LCD display. The menu items are well structured and it is easy and fast to find the manual control you are looking for. c) the optical zoom is good and the picture quality can be excellent. The level of details in the pictures can be suprisingly good. d) the imaging technology, for example the HP Adaptive Lighting, gives me peace of mind that my picture has a good chance of being accurately taken exactly as I see it through the viewfinder. The moto "what you see is what you get" seems difficult to achieve without professional cameras and photography knowledge, but the HP R707 manages this quite well indeed. e) playback and viewing of pictures and video is easy and you can browse through thumbnails of the pictures or instead enlarge each picture to better control the quality of each shot. d) I didn't test the included software, because I didn't load it, as my iMac instantly recognized the R707 and iPhoto automatically launched and I just needed to click the "import" button in the software. I also didn't test the in-camera red-eye removal, as I think it is faster to do this in iPhoto. Negative points: 1) no case is delivered with the R707. You need to buy this extra. 2) I often use the optical zoom, but then the aperture can go to a minimum of f8.4 m, the consequence is I often need to use the flash, almost always when indoors. 3) the view finder doesn't show any menu items, so when the LCD display is not available due to low battery and you want to change the menu settings, you have to do this blindly. 4) the more manual controls and active filters you use, the longer it takes to process a photo and write it to memory. You may need to wait up to several seconds before taking another picture. 5) the time to photo makes it necessary to anticipate when you will have the right "picture" so you can already press the "photo" button halfway down to enable autofocus and lighting to be calculated before making the real picture. There are ways to shorten this delay, but maybe this problem is similar to other consumer compact digital cameras. Summary: I was pleasently surprised by the ease of use and the quality of the camera. The price I paid was less than that of a new but no longer produced Canon Digital Ixus 400 (Powershot S400) in discount stores. It is difficult to get better quality at a lower price than the HP Photosmart R707. I recommend it.
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Summary: what you see is what you get
Review: I have the HP Photosmart R707 since a few weeks. This is my first digital photo camera. I bought the R707 because I want to take good pictures without worrying about all the manual control menu options and features. Point and shoot. However with this camera I do have those other options available for more experimenting when I want to. My experience so far: I've taken pictures indoors and outdoors, sometimes in difficult situations like a bright light in the background of the subject or high contrast pictures alternating bright sunshine and dark shadows and I have loaded these into iPhoto within Mac OS X 10.3.4 I've also tried out the video recording feature. Positive points:
The body is small, compact, easy to hold, it feels and looks classy. The buttons are easily reached and a number of options can be chosen by using the buttons without needing to scroll through menu items on the LCD display. The LCD display can be dimmed or brightened in 3 steps, enough to read well in bright sunshine. The R707 comes with 32MB RAM built in, so I can take 17 high resolution pictures (5.1 MB with middle strength compression i.e. 2 stars) without even inserting an sd card. The menu items are well organised and it is easy and fast to find the manual control I'm looking for. The optical zoom is good and the picture quality can be excellent. The level of details in the pictures is often surprisingly good. The imaging technology, for example the HP Adaptive Lighting, gives me peace of mind that my picture has a good chance of being accurately taken exactly as I see it through the viewfinder. The motto "what you see is what you get" seems difficult to achieve without professional cameras and photography knowledge, but the HP R707 manages this quite well indeed. Playback and viewing of pictures and video is easy and you can browse through thumbnails of the pictures or instead enlarge each picture to better control the quality of each shot. The in-camera red-eye removal works very well. The Image Advice feature is helpful in explaining what you can do to take better pictures next time. Video recording is very easy, just press one button to record. The quality of the recordings is fine for a camera, but not comparable to the greatly superior image and sound quality of dv cams. I didn't test the included software, because I didn't load it, as my iMac instantly recognized the R707 and iPhoto automatically launched and I just needed to click the "import" button in the software. You may want to read more at Digitalmagasinet.dk, which has an excellent English review of the HP R707. They compared it to the Canon IXUS S500, and the R707 won in most categories, especially price/quality ratio. Negative points: 1) no case is delivered with the R707. You need to buy this extra. 2) I often use the optical zoom, but then the aperture can go to a minimum of f8.4 m, the consequence is I often need to use the flash, almost always when indoors. 3) the view finder doesn't show any menu items, so when the LCD display is not available due to low battery and you want to change the menu settings, you have to do this blindly. 4) the more manual controls and active filters you use, the longer it takes to process a photo and write it to memory. You can take another picture after 1-2 seconds, while the processing of the previous picture is still in progress, as long as the in-camera 32MB memory is not full. 5) Battery recharging can take a few hours. 6) The camera can heat up when in use for longer periods of time. In the Image Advice Screen some photos mentioned something like "camera was too hot, this can impact photo quality". Conclusion: I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of use and the quality of the camera. The price I paid was less than that of a new but no longer produced Canon Digital Ixus 400 (Powershot S400) in discount stores. It is difficult to get better quality at a lower price than the HP Photosmart R707. I recommend it.
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Summary: Love it!
Review: I just bought the r707 a few weeks ago, and I LOVE it. I spent a lot of time researching and I would have never thought of getting an HP, but I finally decided to get this camera after testing it in the store. It replaced a 2 megapixel canon elph, which produced average pictures. The interface for this camera is much more user-friendly than my old elph, and the pictures are gorgeous too--the colors are sharp and crisp. It's just so fun to use! You do need to take advantage of the many modes and setting options to get beautiful images in all conditions (low light etc) but it's not hard to do that and worth the effort. It also does really well with action shots.
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Summary: Unbelievably Awesome!
Review: I was one of the first people to purchase this camera from my local Office Depot. I was taken aback by how much enthusiasm the salesperson had for this camera. After I purchased it, I can see why he was excited. This camera is sheer brilliance! The panarama feature alone is worth the price of the camera. I switched the panarama mode on and took a 5 picture wide angle shot of my front yard and after a few seconds I had a picture that looked like it was taken by a National Geographic photographer. This camera has it all! Who ever said that Hewlett Packard can only make printers has clearly never used this camera. Finally, a camera on the market that trully lives up to the hype!
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Summary: How easy can it get
Review: Looking for a digital camera, then look no more. hp has made the world of digital for the average person so easy to use and the results are unbelievable. My wife was fighting the digital revolution, but not anymore. This small, easy to use camera has everything the novis photographer needs and the results look professional. The prints we made using the hp photo printer are just as good if not better than the old drug store way we did it before.
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Summary: Even better than the last
Review: My father has an HP Photosmart 935 camera that he's used since Christmas. He uses it constantly, and the prints look great even on 8x10 because of his Photosmart printer and the camera's high resolution. After months of hearing from him how I should have a digital camera, also, I finally relented and went to CompUSA to get a 935 of my own when my tax check came back (not bad for filing on April 15th!). The store rep told me that if I liked the 935, I would love the R707. He's right! Instead of the one set of rechargeable's my dad got with his dock, I have two (one came with the camera, the other with the dock - which can charge them both at the same time), and they're LiIon instead of NiMH. I still haven't recharged the first after using it for around a hundred pictures during my company's golf outing. I took a panoramic shot of one of the holes at the golf course, and the software that comes with the camera made it very simple to put together and print out. When I go on vacation this summer I'm going to get some great use out of that function. In the meantime, the two things I'm using the most are the In-Camera Red Eye Removal and the Image Advice. With the Red Eye Removal, instead of having the obnoxious multiple-time flash that we've grown used to with film cameras, the red eyes are removed after the camera takes the picture. If you see some red-eye, you just select to remove it, and the camera finds the mistake, asks you if it's ok to change, and the redness disappears. If you don't notice it right away, the Image Advice will even alert you to it! I'm not quite a novice, but not really a camera pro, either. The Image Advice you can select after the picture is taken really helps you get the perfect picture. If something looks too dark, or too bright, or the colors are just plain wrong (like when you set the White Balance to Tungsten or Sun instead of Auto, and then go somewhere else), the Image Advice tells you how to get a better shot by changing ISO speeds, turning on the awesome Digital Flash feature (no more need to Dodge & Burn in PhotoShop!), etc. The people in my office think I'm a pro after they downloaded my pictures from HP's photo site, but between you and me I just did what Image Advice told me to. Combine these features with the smaller, metal cased housing that the R707 has compared to the 935, and I've got myself one hell of a camera, and a jealous dad to go along with it!
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