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Summary: I-Zone...a don't buy zone
Review: Merry Christmas! This is my first digital camera given as a gift. I would not recommend this as gift to anyone. I can't tell whether the camera is upside down-right side up. Polaroid really was not thinking of the average customer when they designed this product. Sometimes more options can be a big headache.
Do your life a favor, buy a real digital camera. Polaroid was this a Monday or Friday designed product? Just curious?
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Summary: Not if you are serious about taking pictures........
Review: Okay. I admit to not expecting a great deal from this camera, but I was really hoping for the best. It's difficult to use the digital part, but the instant pictures were fun! I finally gave it to the kids to play with. They love to practice, but have yet to take a good digital picture. Much more of a toy than useful camera.
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Summary: Good beginner camera!
Review: Santa brought this camera for my 7 year old son. He loves the instant stickers and although we went through 3 packs of film the first day the kids all enjoyed it and the stickers can be used for a number of things. The digital camera is excellent for beginners. This is the first digital camera we have owned and it has worked well. It is easy to use, the software is relatively simple and is fun. Had a little trouble with the serial ports - which could have been more a problem with my computer than the camera - once I had my brother-in-law look at it he figured out the problem. He did say a USB would have been better. The quality of the pictures is good and you can adjust the quality through the software. I have had as much fun as my son with this camera. It only stores about 16 pictures in the memory and then you need to download them onto the computer and clear the camera so it wouldn't work well if you wanted to take alot of pictures on vacation and didn't have a computer handy! I think for the price this camera is a really good deal and seems to be pretty sturdy. My son has had it outside and all over and it hasn't broken yet!! I would recommend this for anyone with children who want to enter the world of digital photography!! I will eventually buy a more advance digital camera for the family but this one will be great for the kids and definetly has been a good learning tool!!
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Summary: LOUSY Camera
Review: sorry gang but if you have Win 98 DO NOT get this camera it does not work with Win 98 and the packaging doesn't say so. I got it while I still had Win 95 and expected it to still work when I upgraded to 98. Signed a VERY UNHAPPY CAMPER :( don't blame Amazon though since I got it elsewhere but this was a place I could warn others intending to buy it.
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Summary: Great for kids
Review: The best thing about this camera is the software it comes with. My 12 and 17 year-olds love putting their "head" on the bodies of musclemen, pin-up girls, superheroes, on one-dollar bills, etc. The software is very simple and intuitive. True, you won't get seriously-sharp, professional photos with this, but this is a camera for fun and for learning. Highly recommend it for kids -- but don't get it if you're looking for a serious digital camera.
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Summary: Incompatible with HP scanner software
Review: The camera works reasonably well for its price; however, the software it comes with for recognizing the camera when plugged into your computer via the serial port fails to work properly if your computer has scanner software installed. Polariod tech support identified this as a potential problem when I couldn't get the Izone software to recognize the camera. After uninstalling the (HP) scanner software the Izone software did recognize the camera and downloaded the digital images as advertised. Polariod tech support suggested that reinstalling the HP scanner software after the IZone software was installed would solve the problem. It did not. Anyone with scanner software installed are likely to run into this problem which is not covered in the IZone trouble shooting guide. If you don't have a scanner this might be the gift to get for the child who wants a camera otherwise skip it.
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Summary: Some Details About the Polaroid I-Zone Digital Combo Camera
Review: The Polaroid i-Zone combo digital camera is a 640x480 digital camera with one meg non-expandable memory, fixed focus lens, automatic flash, and no preview screen on the camera jammed onto a mini-polaroid i-Zone camera. It's big and awkward, which is probably why it hasn't been successful. I can never figure out how to grab it without putting a finger into a lens. I only bought it because I got an extreme bargain on it at my grocery store of all places. Overall I'm happy with it and will use it for my web site and to send photos by E-mail, but it's no replacement for a 35mm camera and a scanner. It's a TWAIN device so you can acquire photos directly from the camera with any TWAIN-supporting software, such as Paint Shop Pro. Photos are compressed as JPEGs inside the camera. It holds "up to" 18 shots, but unless you're taking photos of blank walls, it'll be more like 16. It takes about 2 minutes and 20 seconds to transfer a full load of photos from the camera through your PC's serial port. You can download the photos selectively, but you can't selectively delete. You can only clear the entire camera memory at once. The JPEGs are copied directly from the camera to a folder, so you don't have to worry about appropriate recompression unless you want to make modifications. The compression is a little too extreme. If you brighten with gamma correction, you can really see the JPEG squares. The flash doesn't go off unless it needs to, so you can get non-flash-lit pictures by providing enough light. The exposure isn't very well controlled. Indoor pictures at less than 2 feet are totally washed out by the flash, but that's easy to fix. Either light the subject better so the flash doesn't go off, or partially cover the flash. I used several layers of masking tape. The lens is so small that you can take pictures really close, like a few inches, and they'll only be a little blurry, but the flash must be totally covered with aluminum foil. It uses 4 AAA batteries and doesn't have a plug for a DC adaptor. I'll probably install one myself. It uses a 9 pin serial port, so if you have a serial mouse, you'll need a second port. Most computers have a second port, but it might be a 25 pin rather than 9. If so, you'll need a converter which will be about (dollar amount). It does not have a tripod mount or a timer, so you'll need help if you want to take pictures of yourself. It comes with a mosaic application which converts images to mosaics of other images. You'd think it would be fun to play with, but it lacks a simple browse option to select your own photos to use in making the mosaic. They don't let you use your own images because they want to sell you their supplemental image CDs. Of course they don't tell you this up front. I got very aggravated struggling to make it use my photos.
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Summary: This camera is awesome!
Review: There's nothing like this camera! It takes sticky pictures/mini photos and takes digital pictures. It's very cool. The software that comes with it is tons of fun. I recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: Cute, but more of a plaything than a real camera
Review: This camera is cute. Period. It's great for kids who are learning to shoot photos, but the film is kinda pricey when you consider that kids don't really shoot well and might run through LOTS of film. Nevertheless, it might be a good learning tool for them since they can instantly see the photo they took. If you are an adult, you will be disappointed with this though. If you want a real Polaroid, look at the Polaroid Spectra. Otherwise, the camera and kit are great. COmes with film, focus-free camera lens (bult in), flash, etc.
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Summary: Good
Review: This camera is great for kids learning to use cameras and computers. But not good for profesionals.
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