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Summary: Incredibly bad product and service
Review: The kit was supposed to be complete except for batteries. It arrived without: memory card (so would not function even if it worked), serial cable, wrist strap, camera case, quickstart guide, users guide. The camera will not even power up on batteries (does using an AC adapter). SO NO VALUE at all. Obviously this kit had ZERO inspection. NO REPLY TO EMAILS. this is the worst experience that I have had buying from an online vendor.
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Summary: XP Distaster
Review: The PDC1300 software does notwork with Windows XP and I cannot find an update.
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Summary: ...
Review: This camera is horrible! It had problems the third day I used it to take pictures. The camera froze up on me and the only way that I got it to work again was to take the battery out and restart it. Polaroid told me that it was the flash card and sent me a replacement to fix the problem. Then it happened again, the camera froze and I lost all the pictures that I took. Then I called polaroid again and they told me that it was the camera. I sent the camera into repairs and they said that their was nothing wrong with the camera and sent it back to me without doing a thing about it. They even had the nerve of telling me that I needed to insert the flash card correctly to have it working properly. Now, they want to send me a refurbished camera to replace the camera that I currently have. Hell NO! I don't want anything from Polaroid, that company is crap and the camera is crap. If I could give this camera a rating of ZERO I would. DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!
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Summary: Had some challenges but worked them out
Review: Well, I too have faced some of the challenges that you have all mentioned and once I worked them out, I have been very pleased with this camera. I received it as a gift and found immediately that it wouldn't load on XP - quick trip to Polaroid.com and I found easy instructions on how to install it on XP - now it works - I agree about the Win2000 issues though - what's up with that? Then I had the issues with the camera freezing up, weird pictures, stopped working, etc - then a guy at Circuit City suggested I buy a new memory card - I did and was able to take 100 pictures in a row without error. Haven't had problems with that since. I have also encountered the battery issues - however, I found that if I keep the LCD off (which I prefer anyway) and, this is the key, use RECHARGEABLE batteries specifically for electronic devices - I've had much better luck with the battery - again, took over 100 pictures with flash. Is this a lot of work - sure, but it was a gift and was better than nothing so I tried to figure it out. Now that I have, I really like it and have some pretty good pictures as a result.
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Summary: Had some challenges but worked them out
Review: Well, I too have faced some of the challenges that you have all mentioned and once I worked them out, I have been very pleased with this camera. I received it as a gift and found immediately that it wouldn't load on XP - quick trip to Polaroid.com and I found easy instructions on how to install it on XP - now it works - I agree about the Win2000 issues though - what's up with that? Then I had the issues with the camera freezing up, weird pictures, stopped working, etc - then a guy at Circuit City suggested I buy a new memory card - I did and was able to take 100 pictures in a row without error. Haven't had problems with that since. I have also encountered the battery issues - however, I found that if I keep the LCD off (which I prefer anyway) and, this is the key, use RECHARGEABLE batteries specifically for electronic devices - I've had much better luck with the battery - again, took over 100 pictures with flash. Is this a lot of work - sure, but it was a gift and was better than nothing so I tried to figure it out. Now that I have, I really like it and have some pretty good pictures as a result.
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Summary: Unnecessarily low-quality
Review: Yes, I know this is a moderately-priced camera. That's no excuse for not providing Windows 2000-compatible drivers, for having serial-cable downloads that take house (sometimes), or for having a USB cable that never worked at all. Also note that a set of batteries lasts about half an hour, so you'd better make good use of the AC adapter! Also note that the camera is not Mac-compatible.
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