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Summary: Unreliable Pricing
Review: Amazon had listed the Canon Elph Z3 for $129.94 and now they raised the price to $149.88. They don't even include the camera case and film that most of the other vendors offer with the camera. This is NOT good business, expecially during the holidays. I would not buy from Amazon for their unprofessional practices.
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Summary: Unreliable product and poor after sales care
Review: Don't buy this camera unless you have money to throw away. The camera was a little over one year old and we had probably shot less than 8 rolls of film. Towards the end of the film, it jammed and we had to send the camera back to Canon to be fixed. After 6 weeks the camera shop called us to say that Canon had returned the camera to them with a note that said they had tried to contact us about the repair bill and because we didn't respond they assumed we didn't want to pay. We had not received any contact or quote from them. The camera shop finally managed to get hold of someone at Canon after calling them for 2 days and they quoted us $115 to fix it, which included a "thorough clean". Gee whizz. No thanks. We saved our money and bought a new Pentax camera that WORKS.
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Summary: Tiny, feature rich, and it works well
Review: Having owned several small APS cameras, I can safely tell you that this one is a winner. The Z3 has a decent 2.3 times optical zoom (I prefer a 3x, but this is pretty good), very small size, and excellent battery life (over 25 rolls/battery, vs. under 10 for many other cameras). It also has some of the minor features that prove useful, including date and time encoding, mid roll rewind and load, and basic control over the flash (4 modes).If you've never used the APS format before you will be impressed by the small camera size and image results, as long as you stick with 4x6 prints. If you require 35mm results with enlargements, go elsewhere. This has nothing to do with this camera, its all in the film size. You might be able to enlarge to 5x7, but no further. These are really tiny negatives and the images get grainy when you enlarge them too much. I've seen some complaints about reliability, but after a hundred rolls or so this camera has been flawless. It did take us a roll or so to get used to the turning the camera off (you slide the lens cover over), but once you get the hang of pressing the cover in just a bit before sliding it, it comes easy. I'd also suggest that you check out the Canon 370Z camera. While it is a bit bigger and has shorter battery life (I've averaged 8-9 rolls per battery at best), the zoom is a full 3x, meaning that you can zoom in a bit more. That can be useful, although I have not missed it as much witht his camera as I expected.
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Summary: Great Camera, has a problem, but just be careful
Review: I bought the Z3 about a week before we took a cruise to the Carribean, love the way it looked and handled,shot both Fuji and Kodak 400 speed film, have also shot this speed with and Elph 2 I have, the Z3 is a complete runaway, had the photos developed on shipboard, they did an excellent if not very expensive job, the results were just sensatiional, If I held it up to a 35mm print, you could not tell the difference, gorgeous color, great exposures, tack sharp lens and auto exposure system, this is a real winner except for one weak point, when you shut the camera off, the lens retracts inward, you can easily bang the door into the retracting lens, which I did on 3 occassions, twice knocking the door off the track, I fixed it myself by popping it back on, no damage, I think Canon could use a fix here, other than that, I,ll still give it a 5 rating, its a winner.
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Summary: hm...
Review: I bought the Z3 because of its extremely compact size and basic ease of use. I previously owned one of the higher-end Olympus Stylus cameras and found its performance 100% excellent, but too bulky to carry around. When it finally broke down (my fault, unfortunately) I bought this camera hoping to replace the other with one equally as good. I am here to tell you that the quality of pictures I have gotten so far from the camera is quite poor. If a subject (particularly, but not limited to, people) is more than five feet away the picture is without exception blurry and poorly lit. I am very disappointed with the camera, although in all other senses (e.g. film loading, size, and good looks) it is fine. However, since the photographs are the most important factors in a customer's satisfaction level, and indeed, the reason WHY we buy cameras... the Canon Elph Z3 is a bad deal and I wouldn't recommend it unless you needed a camera on the side for quick pictures. I carry it in my purse at all times (it is very tiny) which is convenient, I admit, for those Kodak (excuse me... Canon) moments you would have missed otherwise. But if you want great pictures, run screaming and tell your mom what the Canon company told you about the camera. Isn't it sad when companies market products that don't live up to their descriptions?
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Summary: Canon Elph Z3 Zoom
Review: I bought this camera approximately one month ago. I've developed 4 rolls of film so far and I'm not at all impressed by the quality of the photos. My biggest complaint is red eyes. On almost every close up in both dark and light conditions, the subject's had red eyes. This camera suppossedly has red eye reduction...I've yet to see it produce results. I did however take some panoramic landscapes and they came out awesome. On another note, just like other people have mentioned, the camera looks cool and is small enough to fit in your pocket.
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Summary: Disapointing
Review: I got this camara as a gift and liked this camara a lot although the door never closed quite right and then just a year later it broke and they want to charge me $100 to fix it! It's a good camara but badly designed. Not worth it, I suggest you keep looking.
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Summary: Ruined my trip!
Review: I have to say I am completely disappointed with this product. I purchased it from Best Buy the day before I left for a trip to Utah. The first roll: it stopped taking pictures after the 17th one. I had to put in a new roll. The second roll: it stopped functioning after the 22nd picture. I was devastated. I developed the pictures and most of them have red eyes, and the quality is horrible. I am shocked that this product passed Canon's quality controls. I have another Canon camera that I am crazy about. I have returned the new one; I wish I had read the reviews on Amazon.com before buying it. Trust me...DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!
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Summary: don't buy
Review: I purchased an elph for the size and the fact it takes panaramics. At first I was happy with it, it took good pictures, was easy to load and unload, and was compact. After about 3-4 months I was in the keys with my friends when we took our last picture on the film, it would not rewind not even manually. I brought it to a camera place to see if they could get the film out and they told me to send it back to canon. The door was stuck and he did not want to ruin it. I did happen to eventually get the film out myself but the camera still did not work so I sent it in (supposively under warranty) and they wanted to charge me $75 to fix it. I suggest looking for another camera.
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Summary: Problem with film loading compartment!
Review: I received this camera as a gift in June 2003 and used it maybe 10 times over the course of a year. Then all of a sudden the "EASY" APS loading dock started to get very fussy. After about a month of playing to get the film loaded, the camera stoppped letting the film out of the compartment! It's broke and I can't get it working! I took it to the Camera Shop and they said it would cost $110.00 to fix it! Forget it! I'm going back to 35MM - the film is cheaper and it cost a lot less to get developed. How much easier was the APS after all?
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