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Summary: Don't bother!
Review: I bought this camera for E-Bay listings, and I am greatly disappointed. If you have to take a picture of anything closer than three feet away, forget about it. For close-ups, the manual (and HP) recommends using the zoom feature and cropping with the included photo program. Trouble is, the zoom looses so much detail, the close-up is a waste. I have an old I/O 420 that blows this camera away, and it's ancient technology now. Regular outdoor pictures are ok, but why bother if that's the only thing you can use it for? I'm also in the process of finding out why Amazon.com only refunded 1/2 of the purchase price when I returned the thing after two weeks for a refund. My recommendation is to spend an extra $30 to by the Olympus D-390 at chiefvalue.com It's a vastly superior camera in every respect, for just a little more money.
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Summary: Great little digital camera!
Review: I got this camera for my 13 year old daughter for Christmas and I am simply amazed by the quality of pictures she takes with it! It was only a little more expensive than a cheap 35mm film camera but I figured the extra cost of film for the 35mm cam might outweigh the additional up front cost of the digital. What an understimation on my part! My daughter has taken at least five hundred pictures already with this little wonder and is still going strong!
The flash has proven to be strong enough for almost every shot and it does a pretty good job reducing or eliminating red eye most of the time. (When it doesn't work we use i-photo on the Mac to remove the red eye) While the flash is not perfect, it's more than adequate for most shots.
The original alk. batteries lasted through probably the first 200 photo's or so and we got another 100 out of them after a re-charge. It's on the second set of 4 now so the camera doesn't seem to go through them quite as quickly as other reviewers have stated with other models of cameras.
The camera uses a "star rating system" for its three levels of photo quality. One star for "economy", two for "good" and three for "fine". Rotating through the choices is very easily accomplished by pushing the star button on the camera back.
The display on the back of the camera is not very big and is a little on the dark side but the nice thing is that the actual photo's always look far better than what you saw in the display. The fact that it has an SD (Secure Digital) media slot is probably the reason I initially chose this particular camera. My Panasonic DV cam also uses SD cards for its built in still camera. Getting this HP with SD capability means I don't have competing digital media with different media readers around the house. It also meant that I could give my no-longer-used 16MB card to my daughter and did not have to buy another one for her!
The camera also can take "movies" of limited length...maybe 20 seconds or so. I don't find this feature to be too useful though since no sound gets recorded. I suppose it could be used to capture a specific moment that might happen too fast to catch with a still photo but you'd have to use some software to select out the frame you wanted. While not a bad thing, it's just not a feature that played into my purchase decision.
2.0MP resolution was impressive just a short time ago on high-end cameras and it is still very good for digital albums or sharing photo's via email.
If you're a "pro" or a "pro-am" at photography, pass this one up and spend the $$ for a 4MP+ camera that has interchangeable lenses etc.
If you're looking for a very easy to use, relatively in expensive point and shoot digital camera that takes impressive pic's you will probably be happy with this one.
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Summary: Awesome Digicam
Review: I got this Digicam for my birthday. As soon as I pluged it in I was blown away at how easy it was to get the pictures on the computer. Then when I looked at my images I had taken, oh my gosh!!!! They were awesome!! I also love the HP Instant Share. I makes e-mailing the pictures a snap. I would really reccommend this camera to absoulutly anyone!!
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Summary: Accessories Caution
Review: I just started playing with my new camera. I notice the batteries don't last very long, especially when doing many functions. I started to price the AC Adapter (HP $49.99) and found that most on eBay are generic multi voltage units (around $30). Then while looking at the HP Photosmart 8881 Camera Dock (HP $79.99) I noticed that it too included a AC Adapter. I called HP and found out that it is the identical adapter that will hook directly to the camera. So I was able to get the HP Adapter AND the Docking Station for just a little more than the generic adapter alone.
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Summary: Accessories Caution
Review: I just started playing with my new camera. I notice the batteries don't last very long, especially when doing many functions. I started to price the AC Adapter (HP $49.99) and found that most on eBay are generic multi voltage units (around $30). Then while looking at the HP Photosmart 8881 Camera Dock (HP $79.99) I noticed that it too included a AC Adapter. I called HP and found out that it is the identical adapter that will hook directly to the camera. So I was able to get the HP Adapter AND the Docking Station for just a little more than the generic adapter alone.
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Summary: Excellent camera for the price!
Review: I looked up this camera here and all I can say is the guy who put up one star because he couldn't get the wrist strap on has skewed the stars unfairly. I don't know about you but I buy a camera for what it can do, not for the wrist strap! (I got mine on with some patience)The camera out of the box worked great, took great pics and I can hook it right up to my HP printer and printe directly from camera to printer - no computer needed! I got mine elsewhere (won't say where -...).
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Choice
Review: I recently received this camera with the HP printer bundle for my birthay. Both work wonderfully. They are so easy to use and are great for taking just basic pictures. The price was very affordable as well.
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Summary: Great camera for fun pics
Review: I've had this camera for about two weeks now and I love it. The picture quality is super and it is so easy to use. There is virtually no need to even read the user manual. Just throw in the batteries, turn it on, and start snapping pics. The included software is simply to use and install. It makes downloading the pics onto your compuster a snap. All in all, this camera is a great little camera for fun, casual pics.
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Summary: Ripp off
Review: If you need blurred pictures,and very slugish response from a camera...this camera is perfect for you! you'll need lots of batteries too the LCD eats all your power up quick.
Rating:
Summary: Good camera for its price
Review: In general this camera is very good. It's a bit big and kind of ugly, but the picture quality is good and it is easy to use. I do not use anything but the highest resolution because that is the only way to get real looking pictures. I strongly recommend getting a memory card because otherwise the camera will only take 8 pictures. The program that comes with the camera is basic but good. I particularly like that that the program allows you to make slide-show DVD's of the pictures that are on your computer. I struggled putting the wrist strap on; the best way to go about that is to use a paper clip. The only other disadvantage of this camera is that it takes four AA batteries and uses them up quickly. I recommend either using lithium batteries because they are lightweight and last longer or rechargeable batteries.
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