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Summary: Good Cheap Camera
Review: I've seen tons of reviews on this camera. Some good and some bad. Some of these people giving the bad reviews must be a little deluded. Maybe they thought someone was going to give them a [price] camera for [price]. Wake up! This camera works better than any camera even close to the price. Admittedly, the included software isn't all that great, but I didn't buy it for the software. I have sent nice snapshots to all of my friends and family by exporting as jpegs. Great all-around deal.
Rating:
Summary: Good Cheap Camera
Review: I've seen tons of reviews on this camera. Some good and some bad. Some of these people giving the bad reviews must be a little deluded. Maybe they thought someone was going to give them a [price] camera for [price]. Wake up! This camera works better than any camera even close to the price. Admittedly, the included software isn't all that great, but I didn't buy it for the software. I have sent nice snapshots to all of my friends and family by exporting as jpegs. Great all-around deal.
Rating: 
Summary: The Barest Of Bare Bones Digital Cameras
Review: It can take hours to get a few random pictures to download from the camera. Software support is unreachable. The little documentation provided is poor. Every time I turn on the camera it behaves differently, so it is impossible to reliably take a picture and get it on the computer. Sometimes the buttons work, other times they do nothing. If your are lucky enough to get it to download it is then difficult to get the picture in a useable format like JPG or bitmap. Often turning the camera off makes it lose all of its pictures. Save your money, time and sanity by buying some crayons and an art book.
Rating: 
Summary: Awful software makes camera useless
Review: It can take hours to get a few random pictures to download from the camera. Software support is unreachable. The little documentation provided is poor. Every time I turn on the camera it behaves differently, so it is impossible to reliably take a picture and get it on the computer. Sometimes the buttons work, other times they do nothing. If your are lucky enough to get it to download it is then difficult to get the picture in a useable format like JPG or bitmap. Often turning the camera off makes it lose all of its pictures. Save your money, time and sanity by buying some crayons and an art book.
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Summary: Acceptable, with limits
Review: Like most other reviewers, we found flash closeups to be grossly overexposed. Since we take a LOT of such flash closeups, we simply made a small "hat" made from a strip of copy paper to fit over the flash. End of problem. As to unpredictability of the flash: The camera doesn't need much light to decide for itself the flash isn't needed. We tend to set the camera to force a flash and use the "hat" as described above. Outdoor pictures are generally very good, but certainly not up to mega-pixel quality. The camera IS a bit of a battery-hog, but since it comes with an AC adapter, we often use the adapter for those indoor closeups. Battery savings hint: The camera uses battery #123, a single 3-volt cell. Buy a battery #223, which has TWO 123's in it, and use them, IF you're willing to crack open the plastic case, which isn't the easiest thing to do, but saves you about 30-40% over the cost of 2 #123's.
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Summary: The Barest Of Bare Bones Digital Cameras
Review: Remember back in the 60's there was this camera you could buy for $2.99 called the "Diana"? It was basically a toy camera that took awful pictures. This is the digital reincarnation of the Diana. For the price, it's still a little expensive but its one of the cheapest ways to jump onto the digital bandwagon. The camera behaves erratically. Sometimes it flashes and sometimes it doesn't. Close up shots tend to be too bright and and when the camera fails to flash, the picture is too dark. Also, I had trouble using the software until I shut off all the programs using my serial port (turned off my Palm Hot Sync cradle, etc). The manual is not very well written and I had to solve my software problems by myself. Don't bother calling them or using the web site. The operation of this camera is not very intuitive, especially when you try to clear the memory. The bottom line: it's cheap, but its very frustrating. For all of the aggrevation it gave me the past week, I give it two stars.
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Summary: The Barest Of Bare Bones Digital Cameras
Review: Remember back in the 60's there was this camera you could buy for $2.99 called the "Diana"? It was basically a toy camera that took awful pictures. This is the digital reincarnation of the Diana. For the price, it's still a little expensive but its one of the cheapest ways to jump onto the digital bandwagon. The camera behaves erratically. Sometimes it flashes and sometimes it doesn't. Close up shots tend to be too bright and and when the camera fails to flash, the picture is too dark. Also, I had trouble using the software until I shut off all the programs using my serial port (turned off my Palm Hot Sync cradle, etc). The manual is not very well written and I had to solve my software problems by myself. Don't bother calling them or using the web site. The operation of this camera is not very intuitive, especially when you try to clear the memory. The bottom line: it's cheap, but its very frustrating. For all of the aggrevation it gave me the past week, I give it two stars.
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Summary: Bad Twain Software
Review: The camera seemed nice, but the Twain software included with it did not work on Windows NT4.0 like it was supposed to. Tech support couldn't help either, suggested that it just won't work on some computers. I sent it back.
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Summary: Good camera, bad software and instruction manual
Review: This camera was given to me as a gift, as i had benn wanting to go digital. The first thing that the instruction booklet should tell you is that to turn on the power you must open the front cover as far as it will go (while opening it it reaches a stopping point and you think that its open all the way but you need to push it a little further to turn it on. The camera itself is ok for the price and it takes pretty good pics however the instruction booklet is horrible ! it gave very little info on downloading and copying. I ended up using the software from a different digital camera as the software included did not work. All in all the camera itself is great but not the software or instruction manual.
Rating: 
Summary: Good for the price
Review: This camera was one of the first low-cost VGA-resolution digital cameras I could find in the US. I tried a couple other brands that made horrible pictures before. I got good pictures without distortion from this one. I used software I already had (Paintshop Pro) with it and never even installed the included software, so I can't rate that. Mine came with a battery, a carrying case, serial cable, and power adaptor included. I think the flash can be too bright, but there is an option to turn it off. I would recommend this if you would like a point-and-shoot digital camera that you can pull out of the box, load up the TWAIN drivers, and continue to use your same software without buying anything extra.
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