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Summary: Steal this Camera!
Review: I've been looking for a camera for about a year and waitingfor the prices to come down and am delighted with this camera! Iliked it so much I went back the next day and bought another for mydaughter. I feel I got a great deal and highly recommend this camera for those of us who can't afford to spend top of the line bucks....I got many more features than I would have expected for the price. Very happy with the quality of my pics.
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Summary: Warning to Macophiles
Review: I haven't had a chance to use the camera yet -- it just arrived in the Christmas Eve mail. I opened the box. Everything was looking good. I played with the camera. Then I read the manual. Windows only. Called Polaroid. I was up a creek. I've ordered Virtual PC in hopes that the camera driver will be compatible. But the solution isn't cheap. Est $180. Hasn't anyone at Polaroid heard of Steve Jobs? Will update my review after I find out if the software fix works. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Summary: Great Digital Camera
Review: I think this is a great digital camera. It is so easy to use, and it is easy to put pictures on documents, web pages, e-mail, etc. It also comes with good software so you can be very creative. You can put a face on the Statue of Liberty! All in all, it's a great camera.
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Summary: Easy to use!
Review: Easy to use. Sends very clear & sharp email pics. Color is wonderful. We took a great picture of our Christmas tree with only the tree lights on...It was georgous & showed up beautiful on email. Good value for the money.Alot of fun.It is very hard on batteries...plan on buying rechargeable ones & carry 2 extra sets. Always carry the AC Adapter (that is included) with you. Everything you need is in the kit. I found that most convenient.
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Summary: Easy to use& to put photos on E. mail. light, and compact
Review: If I get the settings right and get the light in the right place, it takes fairly good photos. It is pretty hard on batterys, I have went to rechargable batterys. We hook into our V. C. R. too and put on a slide show from the tapes on T. V. WE like the PDC-640 and would buy again.
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Summary: Great first digital camera for non-photographers
Review: I've had my camera for two months and I love it. I am sure not a professional photographer but I took some great pictures from the very first. I have taken over 500 pics using all three focus depths and they turned out beautifully. Of course, I took some that were too dark but that was not the fault of the camera. I wish that it would take the 16MB and the 32MB cards, but I get over 90 pictures on the 8MB card in the three star mode and they are of very good quality. Price was right, too.
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Summary: Great first time camera
Review: I bought this camera a few months ago and love it. It takes great pictures and loads to the PC easily. Only draw back is theres no zoom lens. Take a look at the pictures taken with it in my webshots pages: [website]
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Summary: Very Good For Beginners But Needs More Resolution
Review: I won a Polaroid PDC 640 Creative Kit in a contest. Given its current MSRP, I would not have purchased it due to the limited resolution (640 x 480 pixels). The market is full of digital cameras with better resolution (1-1.5 megapixels) for about the same price. As ease of use goes, it doesn't get much better than this. You simply put in the batteries, install the SmartMedia card, turn it on, and start clicking away. In order to download the pictures you've taken the software must be installed to your computer. In response to the one reviewer who complained about the software not being compatible with certain editions of Windows, you need merely to go to Polaroids's website and download the patch for Windows 2000 or in my case, Windows XP. It took only a few minutes to download and I was soon up and running. This camera is fairly intuitive if you have at least a working knowledge of digital cameras. I found myself only having to review the user's manual once, and it is fairly straightforward. The green flash indicator in the viewfinder makes it difficult to frame your shot as one previous reviewer noted, and aside from the limited resolution this is about the only other negative thing I can say about the camera. Although it interfaces with the computer via serial cable as opposed to the much faster USB, I haven't found this to be a major problem. I downloaded 14 pictures to my PC in only about 2-3 minutes just the night before writing this review. Picture quality is fair in the high resolution mode, good in super high resolution mode. I don't recommend using either the medium or low resolution settings. Lastly, regarding battery life complaints I haven't found the PDC 640 to be any worse than any other digital camera. The kit includes an AC adapter which I highly recommend be used for downloads, which accounts for considerably more battery drain than actual picture taking. The resolution mode you use will also make a difference (higher resolution = more battery use). If you're looking for an easy to use digital camera the PDC 640 is a very good choice. If you want the highest quality that digital photography has to offer, look elsewhere...but you'll have a slightly more complicated camera.
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Summary: Bad battery life, poor driver support, serial only...
Review: I got this for Christmas a couple years ago. The first thing I disliked was the battery life -- I'd run out by the New Year. Plus, Polaroid didn't keep up on writing drivers when Windows 2000 came out (though there is Linux/FreeBSD support via gPhoto), and the green view-finder light is annoying. Now I have a white iBook and there's basically no hope for compatibility, as my camera only came with a serial cable (not a USB cable). Polaroid's recent Chapter 11 filing probably means I won't get Mac OS X drivers any time soon (though Apple may come through in the next versions of iPhoto). If you work only work on a supported platform and like giving Energizer money, this still isn't the camera for you!
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Summary: Returned this camera to Wal-Mart twice
Review: I recieved this camera for Christmas and was delighted. It is very easy to use and I didn't need to read through complicated instruction manuals. However, it sure did use up a lot of batteries. I even bought rechargeable batteries, which only lasted for about an hour. However, after using the camera for about a month the LCD viewer stopped working properly (lots of lines through it)and I returned it to Wal-Mart for an exchange. After owning the camera for another 3-1/2 months, I noticed that the area around the most frequently used button (for displaying the pictures)CRACKED! The button was no longer functional. I again returned the camera to Wal-Mart for an exchange. Now, after reading the other reviews, I have decided to return it a third time for a store credit and get a different camera. I would NOT recommend buying this camera.
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