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Summary: Great General Use Camera- Easy to Use
Review: Bought this camera used based on another review at this site. If you like itsy-bitsy cameras, this one is not for you. If you like a decent-sized camera (that can't get lost in your wallet!!!) this is for you. Not great for sports or high speed shots. Great with posed pictures, pictures around the house, we use it at the botanical gardens a lot. It usually comes with Super Disks- these are expensive and rather hard to find. Then you have to use a converter to get them onto your computer (they don't work in a floppy drive). Use a floppy instead, it's much easier to click and then put the floppy in the floppy drive, attach, and send. Even though the resolution is only 1.3, it has been useful when our big, fancy 35mm camera failed at the Grand Canyon. You know instantly if the picture turned out or if grandma blinked. The colors did not turn out as strong as a higher resolution camera...but then again, we didn't have to spend 10 minutes setting up for the shot. The slide-button zoom is extremely easy to use. We got several beautiful pictures of the largest crows we had ever seen -the size of cats- right down to the gleam on their feathers. I take a lot of pictures of our garden, the house, the dogs, the cats, my husband being goofy on the lawn mower, and I am always able to go right in and attach it to an email and send them to my mom within minutes. A cheap old floppy is waaaay more accessable for us than the SuperDisks, and in normal mode, holds about 10 pictures. I always walk around with a few floppies- at a buck each, I can afford to! Super Fine mode holds about 5 pictures on a regular floppy. It is easy to hold and easy to use. For what we spent on a used one, <$200.00, we couldn't be happier. We bought ours from someone who wanted at least 3 megapixels and decided to get rid of it. We will definitely be trying the PV-SD5000 (3.3 megapixel model) as soon as the prices come down and we can get one that has been gently used, probably from someone who "needed" 6 megapixels (why?!?!?!) and wants to get rid of their camera. Then we will probably dispense with a 35mm permanently.
Rating:
Summary: Great General Use Camera- Easy to Use
Review: Bought this camera used based on another review at this site. If you like itsy-bitsy cameras, this one is not for you. If you like a decent-sized camera (that can't get lost in your wallet!!!) this is for you. Not great for sports or high speed shots. Great with posed pictures, pictures around the house, we use it at the botanical gardens a lot. It usually comes with Super Disks- these are expensive and rather hard to find. Then you have to use a converter to get them onto your computer (they don't work in a floppy drive). Use a floppy instead, it's much easier to click and then put the floppy in the floppy drive, attach, and send. Even though the resolution is only 1.3, it has been useful when our big, fancy 35mm camera failed at the Grand Canyon. You know instantly if the picture turned out or if grandma blinked. The colors did not turn out as strong as a higher resolution camera...but then again, we didn't have to spend 10 minutes setting up for the shot. The slide-button zoom is extremely easy to use. We got several beautiful pictures of the largest crows we had ever seen -the size of cats- right down to the gleam on their feathers. I take a lot of pictures of our garden, the house, the dogs, the cats, my husband being goofy on the lawn mower, and I am always able to go right in and attach it to an email and send them to my mom within minutes. A cheap old floppy is waaaay more accessable for us than the SuperDisks, and in normal mode, holds about 10 pictures. I always walk around with a few floppies- at a buck each, I can afford to! Super Fine mode holds about 5 pictures on a regular floppy. It is easy to hold and easy to use. For what we spent on a used one, <$200.00, we couldn't be happier. We bought ours from someone who wanted at least 3 megapixels and decided to get rid of it. We will definitely be trying the PV-SD5000 (3.3 megapixel model) as soon as the prices come down and we can get one that has been gently used, probably from someone who "needed" 6 megapixels (why?!?!?!) and wants to get rid of their camera. Then we will probably dispense with a 35mm permanently.
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Summary: It's great!
Review: I bought one and I love it. You can use it as a standard camera and when your not using it for that it can be used as a disk drive for those disks that hold 120MB. It's resolution is not the highest but it does the job for me. Oh and one last thing. It's pretty easy to use.
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Summary: A sad day... YES this item has been discountinued.
Review: I bought this camera back when it was brand new and paid over $750 for it. It has served me well. I have take over 5,000 pics atleast with this camera... recently I upgraded my MAC OS to 10.3 well my super dish external drive no longer worked... but I pulled out my USB cable and turn it to PC and was able to still use my camera to down load my images. I spent a couple of hours today looking at replacement digital cameras (before I relize about the USB cable). I was really disappointed really with what is out there. Most used AA batteries which will only last a couple of hours and you throw away. The only thing close to this camera is a CDR/CDRW camera by SONY sd350 and higher... problem is the same with this camera... it uses special 3" disks... which might be outdated in a couple of years... if that. All the cameras out there use those cheap little memory chips... I can just see me losing a $100 chip now or breaking the stupid thing. Yeah this camera is BIG but it is rugged for a digital... I plan on using this camera for as long as it last. I wish Panasonic made a newer version of this camera.
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Summary: PV-SD4090 is good, the battery is so so.
Review: I bought this camera from TriState. Overall, I like most of the features that this camera offers. I was pretty pleased that you can use the regular floppy disk in this camera, in addtion to super floppy. The only thing that I am not happy with is the battery, Panasonic does not offer more options on the battery. I really wish the battery can offer longer recording time, and also memory free!
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Summary: A great worker!
Review: I bought this camera without a lot of knowledge about digital cameras because of the ability to use the Super Disk or any 3.5 floppy. It also copies pics, holding them in memory until you insert your target disk! The Super Disk can hold hundreds of pics depending on the mode you select, I have yet to put a dent in the count. I have to photograph houses and this camera is a real worker - it has never let me down. The battery charges quickly, too. After a recent OS crash I installed XP and was bummed out to find that the included software does not support XP. But my disappointment was short-lived when I remembered the copy function. I just copied my pics from the Super Disk to a regular floppy, inserted in my PC and the XP viewer took it from there. It may even have been faster than downloading! This camera's a little bulky, well, really bulky, but the performance and ease of operation more than compensates! I guarantee you'll like it - even if you, like me, are not a "techie". Great price, too!
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Summary: Smile!
Review: I couldn't be happier! I've tried others through my employment but this one is great. We used this instead of our 35mm for vacation pics (heresy) and loved it. I tried to fill the SuperDisk using the Super Fine mode and couldn't. Battery life is excellent. I've yet to wear it down. I would have had to take pictures constantly. I just smiled and clicked away as I would watch other tourists (we went to Disney World) replace memory sticks/cards or floppies (Sony Mavica). We also sent short video postcards to friends which was great. Very user friendly with a wonderful software bundle included. The quality of prints rivals that of my Perntax 35mm SLR. When we upgraded our new computer we downloaded a patch from the Panasonic website ([...]which solved our XP/2000 issues.
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Summary: Impressed
Review: I have an Olympus and to be honest never thought I would ever purchase anything else. I walked by the Panasonic PV-SD4090 while looking for my wife a computer chair for her office. I read all the information and was really impressed with the fact that it held so many photos. I decided to risk the purchace even though it was not an Olympus. I took side by side pictures both inside and out and was very impressed with the results. Not only is the image quality outstanding but the fact alone of the storage space and super fast downloads off the super disk even amazed me more. I do digital photography. I cant express how impressed I am with my new Panasonic Camera. Everyone wanted to buy my old camera for the results it had but I will keep them both, well for now that is. Until I decide to buy yet another Panasonic :) Thanks Panasonic you converted me Mr.Powell
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Summary: USB driver update for XP
Review: I have used this digital camera for several years and LOVE the large hard drive for saving images. I have now taken over 5000 pictures of my daughter (from birth to 2 1/2 years of age.) I have used ONLY three SuperDisks, and I haven't had to delete anything yet. This is a GREAT feature. Recently I updated my computer to Windows XP and I found I could no longer locate the SuperDisk to download images using the USB cable. I was able to find a driver update on the Panasonic website. For those having similar problems downloading using the USB cable with newer versions of Windows, try this website for the updated driver:
http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/digital_cameras/software.asp I would HIGHLY recommend a SuperDisk digital camera to anyone in the market.
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Summary: great digital camera
Review: I own a pv-sd4090 in which I use in graphic arts used in a printing shop. This camera is used with both a PC and Macintoch G4 and I-MACs. It is a completely versitile piece of equipment as my G4 has a superdisc drive but currently this driver is not available, so the Palm Cam works wonders and is the easy way to use superdisc media on all my computers, and also allows me to utilize it for some great camera shots and short movie clips, hundreds of snapshots equally as clear when using zoom. By the way, this is my second 4090, I traded my first one for an offset AB Dick press. So you see, I'm not the only one who sees the value of a great buy. This camera ROCKS.
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