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Summary: Good Camera For Price...
Review: This is a great camera for the price... 3.3 mega pixels for 170 dollars? Great! Be prepared, however, for the quick way it sucks through regular aa batteries. Rechargeable NiMh batteries work better (and are recommended.) Still can not find an ac adapter or a battery pack that will work with this camera, and no one has ever heard of SiPix. Regular 3v doesn't work, like it says it is supposed to, and no one has ever heard of a 3.3v adapter. I have emailed the tech support of the company, and hope to find one soon.Takes nice pictures and is a great starter camera. :)
Rating: 
Summary: Battery slayer
Review: This is my first digital, but compared to the few others pics i've seen, it takes pretty decent pictures for the price. The processing is a tad bit slow when your looking through the view finder, but the ease of setup is smooth. On the downside I was gonna return it to the store, cause the thing killed the batteries it came with, like after 10 pics, I was like what the [heck] this can't be right, but after reading a few reviews I see this cam goes through batt. like runnin water, so i'm gonna try it with a recharger..
Rating:
Summary: Excellent camera for the price
Review: This was my first digital camera and I'm not disappointed at all. A few great things about this camera are that it is a 3.3 Megapixel which means clear pictures, color LCD screen, it has an adjustable timer, shoots video in video mode, has an expandable card slot and all sorts of other bells and whistles. I haven't tried to print out any of the photos but they look excellent on my pc. It does eat up batteries but any camera with an LCD display does the exact same thing and the you can turn the LCD off to save battery life. If you go to Radio Shack you can buy a power adapter that can have any voltage tip put on it but I would still recommend buying some rechargeable batteries. Don't be scared just because it's not a brand name. It's an excellent camera for the price!
Rating: 
Summary: Great Value for the Money
Review: You can get this camera with a rebate for under $100. At that price, it's a steal. Of course, if you want to get any more than limited use out of it, you have to buy rechargeable batteries and memory. Yes, it eats batteries. Invest in a 4-pack of AA NiMH batteries and a charger and you'll be able to keep 2 batteries in the camera and 2 in your pocket. The 16mb on-board memory will only allow you to take 9 photos on the "super fine" setting. Invest in a 128mb compact flash card and suddenly you're up to 79 pictures. As to the quality of the pictures, they are superb outdoors. Incredible detail and dazzling color. I avoid taking photos indoors with a flash because it turns the subject into a deer in the headlights and obliterates the background. This is true, though, of most point and shoot cameras. With proper lighting and using the camera's tripod mount, you might be able to achieve good indoor shots without the flash. Otherwise, the indoor shots are just okay. I don't love the bundled software and recommend after you download the photos to your computer -- saving in a non-degrading TIFF format -- that you use DCEnhancer, a fantastic piece of freeware from www.mediachance.com, to bring out the colors and texture of your photos. It even rescues some of the over- and under-exposed indoor shots. Some have complained about the camera's lack of analog zoom or the crummy quality of the digital zoom. Even on my old film SLR, I never use a zoom lens. The best zoom is your feet! Get closer or farther away to frame your subject properly. Others have complained that the camera is a little bulky. True, it's not a micro-mini camera, but it's smaller and much lighter than my old 35mm p&s, so I could hardly be happier. It lives in my briefcase so I can take a photo whenever the mood strikes. Sure, it's also little flimsy and there's a lot of plastic around, but I didn't pay a Leica-type price either. Frankly, this allows me to take more risks with the camera -- using it at the beach or near ground level because I'm not too worried if it gets a little dusty or beat up. This is my first digital camera and having paid so little for a 3.3 megapixel camera, I'm very happy with it. In a year or so when digital SLR's come within my price range, I will upgrade, but I have a feeling the SiPix will happily spend the next few years living in my backpack or coat pocket so it's at the ready.
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