Rating: 
Summary: Toshiba PDR-M70 -mostly praise!
Review: This is a nice camera with good photo quality. Easy to use - even my "non-photographer and not interested" husband is snapping dozens of fantastic shots every day. I take mostly outdoor scenery and this compares in quality to my 35mm Pentax K1000 manual photos. The choice of an uncompressed mode would have been great, but for most photos I can't see the need. In fact, the difference between the full(2048x1536pixel) and half(1024x768)is not noticeable for most photos printed at 8x10 on Epson stylus color 600. In photos with lots of flat blue sky some slight effects of JPEG compression can be seen - even at 5x7(sky looks sl grainy rather than perfectly smooth). Also, shooting indoors under incandescent light, my grey cats were brown - easily corrected with photo software, and maybe I need to try different settings on the camera. Also, for some reason the photos print horribly with Adobe Photo Deluxe 3.0, which probably is more an Adobe problem than a camera problem. The Image Expert software that was shipped with the camera is easy to use and gives great prints. (An upgrade allowing more neat stuff like "cloning" & a panorama feature would be nice.) Outdoor macro mode gave me some great sharp photos of Mountain Holly berries & leaves and Blue Gentian even with the wind blowing! What more could I ask? Well, maybe...It would be great if the camera came with the lens adapter so you could screw on a UV lens as protection for the main lens, AND a sturdier camera case. I have ordered both(the adapter is on backorder). A 32 or 64 MB smartmedia is also a necessity and an extra battery pack is a good idea. And last, but in my case not least, why aren't there more "splash resistant" cameras available? The only one I found was Kodak DC5000 which unfortunately seems to have some quality control problems (mine was defective out of the box as was one my son in law purchased around the same time). All things considered, the PDR-M70 is a nice, easy to use camera which gives good quality photos and has some whistles that I haven't tried yet (like video & sound).
Rating:
Summary: Toshiba PDR-M70 -mostly praise!
Review: This is a nice camera with good photo quality. Easy to use - even my "non-photographer and not interested" husband is snapping dozens of fantastic shots every day. I take mostly outdoor scenery and this compares in quality to my 35mm Pentax K1000 manual photos. The choice of an uncompressed mode would have been great, but for most photos I can't see the need. In fact, the difference between the full(2048x1536pixel) and half(1024x768)is not noticeable for most photos printed at 8x10 on Epson stylus color 600. In photos with lots of flat blue sky some slight effects of JPEG compression can be seen - even at 5x7(sky looks sl grainy rather than perfectly smooth). Also, shooting indoors under incandescent light, my grey cats were brown - easily corrected with photo software, and maybe I need to try different settings on the camera. Also, for some reason the photos print horribly with Adobe Photo Deluxe 3.0, which probably is more an Adobe problem than a camera problem. The Image Expert software that was shipped with the camera is easy to use and gives great prints. (An upgrade allowing more neat stuff like "cloning" & a panorama feature would be nice.) Outdoor macro mode gave me some great sharp photos of Mountain Holly berries & leaves and Blue Gentian even with the wind blowing! What more could I ask? Well, maybe...It would be great if the camera came with the lens adapter so you could screw on a UV lens as protection for the main lens, AND a sturdier camera case. I have ordered both(the adapter is on backorder). A 32 or 64 MB smartmedia is also a necessity and an extra battery pack is a good idea. And last, but in my case not least, why aren't there more "splash resistant" cameras available? The only one I found was Kodak DC5000 which unfortunately seems to have some quality control problems (mine was defective out of the box as was one my son in law purchased around the same time). All things considered, the PDR-M70 is a nice, easy to use camera which gives good quality photos and has some whistles that I haven't tried yet (like video & sound).
Rating: 
Summary: Better than expected
Review: Yes indeed, this little camera has everything in it--more or less for some one who not just likes to play around but rather likes to use it for business as well as in a semi-professional way.One tiny problem, the smart-media memory card (I don't like smart media at all !) or the camera ? is not correctly working (had this problem with my previous M-4 as well), formatting the card when bought new is impossible! Toshiba will fix this problem I was told. During this time till I get it back I checked other Toshiba cameras,
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