This camera looks like it's designed to sell at £30. At £50 it might be ok. I paid £100 so here goes.. It has excellent design - simple to use & effective. It's not sophisticated but the colour correction is perfect for snap shooting, the batteries seem to last forever; it's very light & compact ... Read review
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This camera looks like it's designed to sell at £30. At £50 it might be ok. I paid £100 so here goes.. It has excellent design - simple to use & effective. It's not sophisticated but the colour correction is perfect for snap shooting, the batteries seem to last forever; it's very light & compact - ideal to take around with you for off the cuff shooting. It comes with pretty good software & downloads are quick & effiecient - though you must have a ... ...the lens quality - a reject from the Hubble Space Telescope or maybe one of those magnifying glasses you get in Christmas crackers - a half decent lens probably wouldn't have cost the producers (in China) more than a few pence! In both definition modes it produces a picture 640x480. Viewed at this mode (on all but a very small monitor) you are going to see rounded edges & smudging. Minor niggles - the case tore away from my belt after about 3 hours ... more
This camera looks like it's designed to sell at £30. At £50 it might be ok. I paid £100 so here goes.. It has excellent design - simple to use & effective. It's not sophisticated but the colour correction is perfect for snap shooting, the batteries seem to last forever; it's very light & compact - ideal to take around with you for off the cuff shooting. It comes with pretty good software & downloads are quick & effiecient - though you must have a USB interface. Unfortunately it doesn't end there. The killer is the lens quality - a reject from the Hubble Space Telescope or maybe one of those magnifying glasses you get in Christmas crackers - a half decent lens probably wouldn't have cost the producers (in China) more than a few pence! In both definition modes it produces a picture 640x480. Viewed at this mode (on all but a very small monitor) you are going to see rounded edges & smudging. Minor niggles - the case tore away from my belt after about 3 hours (though it looks well made); when you shoot it waits for nearly a second before operating (at least it proves that it's thinking); it shuts off after 60 seconds, just about the time you take to frame a shot, in our family; when required, auto flash has to be selected every time you switch on by pressing a button 3 times; the battery lid sometimes came off & after the first day I had to bend the terminals to make it connect. So if you want to blow £100 you could do worse & it's a good introduction to digital photography. But you'll soon want something better.
Advantages: Good basic cheap digial camera that can take motion video Disadvantages: All but poor in the best conditions
The CL18 is Agfa's first digital camera that retails for less than £100. But although it is relatively cheap it boasts a number of features common to the more expensive models. The first thing that strikes you about this camera is its size. It is extremely compact and light, and comes in a choice of either a silver or blueberry casing. The control buttons are all located on the back, with a small display showing battery power, resolution and flash ... ...screen, battery consumption is significantly reduced, but those used to viewing and deleting photos on a screen before downloading them will find its absence irritating - after all, 'pub cred' is a significant buying factor for digital camera users. The camera is dual mode, which means that it can take video footage as well as still images. This means it can be used for videoconferencing, which can be carried out over the Internet or a local area ...
Mcsm 20.07.2000
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Advantages: Small,Webcam, Easy to use, Acceptable battery life, good for email and internet Disadvantages: problems with XP driver,quality, customer service
...get to work from the agfa website is the one in dutch. Agfa may have updated their site with new UK XP drivers now - but I should check this before buying.
I emailed agfa about the camera but recieved no response - so I am doubtful that they have high level of customer service.
I am very pleased with the camera overall - you get alot for your £50 worth - a webcam alone costs approx £30! The pictures are ideal for emailing to friends and putting ... ...due to the light getting into the lens.
The webcam quality is acceptable - sometimes the image appears quite `blocky' when used in netmeeting. I have used this camera both on netmeeting and yahoo with no connection problems.
When connected to the computer via the USB, the computer powers the camera so the battery life does not run down. I have used bigger, more expensive cameras which eat the battery when pictures are transferred to the computer!!
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emzipoo4u 25.09.2002
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Advantages: Light weight small and compact. Disadvantages: Low quality pictures unless lighting is perfect.
The Agfa CL18 is a small, lightweigh and low cost camera.
I bought my CL18 about a year ago at a cost of aprox 50 pounds. The camera came with a small carry case, wrist strap, USB cable, manual and a camera stand. The stand is pretty usefull if you want to use your camera as a web cam. When used as a web cam the pictures are of fairly good quality, but for photographs the CL18 leaves a lot to be desired.
On the day I bought the camera I went for ... ...set of batteries.
The Agfa website leaves a lot to be desired and I spend literaly ages trying to find the propper drivers when I upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP. The new drivers do work OK but I had to really search to find them. The manual that cames with the camers is actualy very well written. To be honest there are not enough features to make this camers confusing but the manual does go into a lot of detail.
The softwre provided with ...
A_Mcintyre 07.09.2003
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Advantages: In todays market absolutely nothing Disadvantages: No value for money, quite large, Quite heavy, terrible battery life
Well this is my fourth opinion so far and the three previous ops have been negative, so guess what? i am not going to break the trend here.
I got this camera some time ago now, probably 3 years ago actually. I was looking at expensive cameras as well as cheap cameras before eventually getting fed up and just choosing the cheap version as i thought the more expensive cameras just offered more un-needed features.
This was my first mistake, the camera's ... ...comparing it to the many key ring £40 digital cameras around this camera has even worse picture quality.
Unfortunetly i decided to use this camera at my sister's university graduation, the pictures were poor to say the least and really didn't capture the day at all well.
The quality being bad is only half the problem. the camera has a very poor battery life. It is so bad infact that having had the batteries in for just 5 minutes the camera would ...
Klang180 27.05.2003
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Advantages: Quite Small And Cheap Disadvantages: Only works in good conditions
I aquired this camera for free upon purchasing a computer. Im not sure if I would have bought it at the time and I certainly would nt buy it now.
For this camera to work the light must be good and the camera must be held almost impossibly still. Also once the pictures have been taken the lack of an LCD screen means that you can not view them until you upload them onto your computer. This is really annoying as it means you can not trust the camera ... ...come ut blurred. I would say that 1 in 3 of my pictures actually come out. However saying all this the camera does come with an integrated flash, can take small video clips (although I ve never worked out how) and can also be used as a webcam. It is relatively small and light and the battery lasts a fair length of time and recharges quickly once connected to your computer. It comes with a weighted stand creating a moveable platform for a web cam ...
Rob664 03.05.2004
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You've been waiting for a while. For a digital camera that does what you want - nothing more and nothing less. A digital camera that lets you take up to 32 images and download them right into your computer. Plus software that helps you e-mail images directly to your friends. Agfa ePhoto CL18 does it all: digital photos to e-mail, digital images to print, video conferencing, and more! With an internal memory similar to a roll of film, ePhoto CL18 doesn't have the hassle and expense of external memory cards. This digital camera works the way you do - fast, easy and electronic. Agfa has added a bit of a surprise: this sleek, little, palm-sized unit also doubles as a quality video conferencing camera for your on-line chats. So forget that extra purchase. Agfa ePhoto CL18 is small. Very small. So don't be afraid to throw it in your pocket or bag and take a few shots of your day about town to share with friends the next day. With a built-in flash and 2 MB internal memory, you can take up to 32 640 x 480 pixel pictures in one go. Plus when you're back home, just plug in the camera using its fast USB connection and download those shots. You don't even have to worry about a power supply since the ePhoto CL18 takes full advantage of USB's capability to supply the camera with power. Or the next time you feel like chatting on-line with a friend, just whip out your ePhoto CL18, mount it on the camera mount, plug in the USB and off you go. Quality images of each other on-line! You can even use the universal mini-video output plug to display your shots on a TV!
good value, good mode selection, good quality, well built, canon quality, good battery life, good resolution and quality, good manual controls, good LCD
clumpy, clunky design and controls, too big to be a true compact, interface pauses, zoom irritating, not worth the upgrade from G3 (*)
compact, efficient, powerful 
