Samsung Maxima 80 GL QD Zoom Date 35mm Camera

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Summary: What flash card and TWAIN driver ??
Review: Amazon's Production description as well as one other review mentions the flash card and the Twain driver in this camera. Am I missing something here ? Also, there is no "Portrait" or "Landscape" mode. I just checked the manual one more time - sorry, cannot find any of this. Apart from that, the camera is reasonably good for the money I paid ($30+shipping). Need to strictly be atleast 3 feet away while trying to take close-ups (especially if zooming in), otherwise it results in blurry images. Outdoor pictures are fantastic.

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Summary: Must be unique
Review: I like this camera. Compact and easy to use, but unfortunately, the red eye reduction doesn't work for beans. I have two little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, and they always end up with red red eyes... other than that, super camera! If you're mostly shooting landscapes or brown eyed individuals (my eldest brown hair brown eyed daughter always looks super) than this is an awesome camera for the money! No other complaints than the red eye issue!

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Summary: Lousy Red Eye Reduction
Review: I like this camera. Compact and easy to use, but unfortunately, the red eye reduction doesn't work for beans. I have two little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes, and they always end up with red red eyes... other than that, super camera! If you're mostly shooting landscapes or brown eyed individuals (my eldest brown hair brown eyed daughter always looks super) than this is an awesome camera for the money! No other complaints than the red eye issue!

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Summary: DO NOT BUY!! ITS JUNK!!
Review: I purchased this camera and as soon as it got here I put a CR2 battery in it and set the date. Next thing I did was load it with Kodak 400 speed 35MM film and I pushed the on/off button and it did nothing! I am going to return it to Adorama camera and get my money back. I have no complaints with Adorama camera because they shipped it super quick and it is not their fault that Samsung makes junky products. I have had similar experiences with a Samsung VCR so I was reluctant to purchase this camera. DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA! IT IS A PIECE OF JUNK!

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Summary: Made in china = low casing quality
Review: The camera works nice but its battery costs about $5 and its casing exterior quality feels like cheap plastic .. thats how you can get a $150 camera for $30 .. i wonder what was compromised !!

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Summary: Better than many "new" ones but avg compared to old
Review: This is an OK camera - better than two more expensive cameras I've recently reviewed. I've only shot about three rolls so far but haven't experience any strong disappointment with the results. The infrared focusing technology is at least ten years old, but that is one reason why I chose this camera! Your compositions are more "chaos-forgiving" than your currently manufactured computerized image detection processes (the kind that forbid you from taking basic pictures of things like cakes and scattered leaves!) So, it's nice to have that "flexibility" back that was once a feature of older cameras. Samsung Maxima 80GL QD has a much faster shutter speed than many other current zoom point&shoots from other manufacturers. This faster shutter speed theoretically makes for some sharper pictures. I speculate that this faster shutter speed compensates for (maybe) the old infrared focus sensing and (I assume) poorer-than-Nikon lens quality. At a glance, the images are nearly as crisp as my Nikon OneTouch90's capabilities (which, aside from sharpness, is a bad camera for indoor photography (even with ISO400 or 800 film)). The standard "image-flattening" disadvantage of your zoom cameras is minimized with the limited 80mm zoom range, which is good. The red-eye reduction option doesn't seem to be working, and a few pictures still come out a little darker than I prefer; but, Yay! No more "greasy" portraits like the OneTouch! So far, I'm glad I bought this Samsung because I haven't found anything else better yet (and I don't care for the results of the Olympus Stylus' either). Decent buy. It's still not as good as my old Nikon ZoomTouch400; but, I don't know of any point&shoots better to recommend at present. The next camera I buy will be a well-researched SLR (oh, and a vervy Lomo for abberrational fun.)

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Summary: Great Camera! Excellent Buy
Review: This is the best camera on the market in it's price range. The camera takes excellent night shots (I have captured city skylines, fireworks, and even lightening!) which look very professional. Day shots are excellent too, the pictures always come out crystal clear and very sharp. The zoom is just enough for most nonprofessional needs. The camera also has excellent blur reduction (for shots taken from car windows). There is only one downside to this camera: the redeye reduction is not always totally effective. But, if you are like me and don't care that much about redeye, then this camera is for you.

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Summary: Must be unique
Review: This is the first film camera I have ever seen that apparently comes with a flash card and TWAIN driver as standard equipment. I wonder if I could retrofit my half-century-old Super Ikonta III the same way, because its resolution puts any available digital camera to shame.