Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE Digital Camera Creative Kit
Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE Digital Camera Creative Kit
Manufacturer: Polaroid
Product Type: Photography
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The unique styling, bright colors, and interesting film sizes of Polaroid products for kids and teens are unsurpassed in the camera world. Never before has it been so much fun to take pictures with friends! The PhotoMAX FUN! FLASH 640 SE Digital Camera is an easy-to-use camera that is both USB and serial compatible. It features automatic focus, three flash modes, and self-timer.
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Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE Digital Camera Creative Kit
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Product Description
The unique styling, bright colors, and interesting film sizes of Polaroid products for kids and teens are unsurpassed in the camera world. Never before has it been so much fun to take pictures with friends! The PhotoMAX FUN! FLASH 640 SE Digital Camera is an easy-to-use camera that is both USB and serial compatible. It features automatic focus, three flash modes, and self-timer.Customer Reviews:
Good & Affordable.......2006-02-18
Incompatible with WinXP.......2003-10-12
Taking pictures is a snap, the instructions are very easy to follow, the pictures are so-so, best to take pics during daylight. It's a good entry into digi-cam if you're not familiar with uploading pics to the computer.
you seriously get what you pay for.......2003-09-11
I bought it for my website. I write stupid and sometimes not so stupid articles about random things, and I thought it was about time I had a functional digital camera to help flesh them out.
I've had this thing for about two weeks now, and I've come to this conclusion: really good/not-so-bad pictures are only available under bright daylight, while any other condition usually produces very average/poor-looking photographs.
Indoors is mostly a no-no, unless you have a lot of light (opening some windows does help). The photographs from normally-lit indoor settings create an ugly grainy effect. Also, even if the camera is completely still and so is your subject, it ocassionally looks like you've been moving the camera while the shutter was open -- making the pictures unnecessarily blurry.
In fact, I haven't had much luck with the quality of the focus -- almost all of my results look a tad blurry.
The software DOES work with Windows XP, you just have to go to Polaroid's official site and read a tutorial on how to get it to a functional state.
If you have Photoshop, the "special effects" that can be used on your photographs are entirely useless. Even if you don't, you probably won't be using them all that often (one finds only so much excitement out of making a picture look incredibly distorted).
Then there's a problem with even well-lit daylight pictures -- at it's normal resolution (640x480), it can sometimes look like a painting. Instead of nice detailed surroundings, you may have little blobs of color everywhere. Reducing the size helps matters, but it's unforunate that I have to do that anyway. The size 640x480 isn't asking for a lot, now is it?
The packaging itself is less than stellar, too. The camera is made out of thin plastic that sometimes feels like it's going to break.
The uploading speed is fast, if you have a USB connection. And it's a great camera for starters, especially younger kids who sometimes could care a less about how great or how not great their pictures look. It IS a digital camera, it DOES make pictures appear onto your computer. So they'll have some enjoyment with it at least.
But I myself am frankly disappointed. What else could I expect from a camera this cheap? I'm looking forward to another digital camera purchase soon. Compared to the more reliable expensive cameras, this is just a piece of junk.
bleh.......2003-04-01
Happy Owner.......2003-02-27
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