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Good camera, terrible battery life.

Advantages: Large screen, good resolution, nice pictures
Disadvantages: Battery life insufficient to actually use the camera, waiting for the flash to charge up

The camera itself is nice, large, but mainly due to the screen size giving good visibility of the pictures. Photo quality is fantastic, good resolution and good pictures either night or day. The camera also has many useful features all of which are easy to access. HOWEVER The camera uses 2xAA batteries, the ones included last approximately 5-10 pictures. I used Energiser camera specific batteries, I managed about 15-20 pictures and 3 seconds ...
...have since then tried rechargeable batteries 2700 rated these too do not last. You even have to wait whilst the flash charges!! Overall a great camera, but appalling battery life. I have been told by the high street electrical store I got the camera from that the screen size will always flatten batteries and that the camera is perfectly OK. Suffice to say I now have an expensive shiny paperweight.. ...

coggie2k 09.02.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Polaroid i835

Polaroid PDC 3035

Advantages: Really light, fairly good image quality.
Disadvantages: Not so good for shooting indoors, and quite a big camera.

This is the Polaroid PDC 3035 digital camera, its a basic point and shoot digital camera with a built in flash and a 3.2 mega pixel image resolution. Also has video recording with sound and 1.5 inch LCD screen on the back and has a SM memory card slot, also with a USB cable to plug it up to your PC and is powered by 4 x AA batteries. This camera has quite a fair image quality when shooting outside but shooting indoors, the image comes out sometimes ...

marcio_silva16 02.06.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Polaroid PDC 3035

A great camera that would be a cult favorite...

Advantages: Takes AA Batteries, Huge Screen, 8 MP
Disadvantages: Battery Door breaks off easily and often

...has a desighn flaw, and polaroid knows it. A few days after getting it we saw a tiny crack in the center of the plastic door start to grow, and it grew out towards the edges ofer then next 11 months, despite our reinforcement with tape over the crack... We didn't want to be without a camera so we put up with the tape for almost a year until we realized that if we didn't send it in to get repaired soon, then we'd be out of warantee. When we called ...
..."The i832? Is it the battery door again?" She went on to describe what a major headache that design flaw has been to her personally. We got it back from repair quickly though, and they paid postage both ways after the fact. The new door looked great the day we got it, but has since developed a tiny new crack... ...

LukeParker 05.03.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of Polaroid i832

Polaroid - Polarubbish or a decent camera

Advantages: serial xconnection for older computers, good battery life
Disadvantages: no flash, bad picture quality, cheaply made,

...for a while, though the Polaroid us website still lists it. If you've no usb then take a trip to Max Spielmann's and pick up a Jam cam 3.0 with both serial and usb connectors and leads (great if you upgrade computers later and you get a proper full usb lead you can use with printers or scanners), flash and a n easy to use menu which takes up to 640 x 48 pixels, for only £30.00. As a footnote, Polaroid digital cameras in the U Karen't made for or ...
...cam. So the Polaroid 320 is a total beginners camera. Treat it as that and you'll be happy, I think. Expect more and you'll be dissapointed. And yes, once yiou've (and very soon I may add as you'll get the bug for digital cos you'll never develop again, but will want something beter)the kids will have a new toy to play with. ...

callancool 14.06.2003 · Read Full Review
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Review of Polaroid PhotoMax Fun 320

not really worth while

Advantages: small, cheap, easy to use
Disadvantages: no optical zoom, CMOS lens drains batteries

Another PDC series that scrapes the bottom of the barrel, it is a 3.2 megapixel camera with a CMOS lens, you may as well be using a webcam....which luckily enough you have if you have this camera. It does have webcam capabilities so it is a step up from some low end cameras but other than that it's limited in it's use. Again you have no optical zoom and are stuck with the quality degrading digital zoom, you again have a very small LCD screen and ...
...On the plus side this camera is cheap, it's small and light, and it's a simple camera to use one that really doesn't even require a manual as the few buttons it does have are all labeled. If you're looking for a first time camera or one for a child this is it otherwise pay the extra money and go with a cannon or fuji ...

Albinorhino 12.02.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Polaroid PDC 3070