Advantages: Nice quality, compact, simple to use Disadvantages: battery life
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The camera also has video feature which doesn't record sound which was a bit of a dissapointment but then again i bought it to take pictures and not to record videos.
Another dissapointment was changing the batterys after one to two days of use. The main problem with this is the battery indicator goes to half level and there is no further warning, the camera just shuts down. I would recommend using rechargeable batteries, always keeping one set fully charged. These can be purchased from B&Q for approx £10. The camera takes 2 x AA batteries.
You can get your pictures developed from most photo processing places but only if you have a memory card. Processing costs around £5 for 50 pictures with the added options of choosing which pictures you have developed and also have them edited to your taste e.g zoom, cropping, black and white etc ...
Advantages: This works!!! Disadvantages: the colour
It was thanks to the nice people here on ciao that I actually got to try out this stuff, I won it as part of a Tigi gift set in the recent colurings competition. To be honest if I had not won the prize I doubt that I'd have actually gone out and bought the stuff due to it being £8.50 a bootle and its rather off putting colour - a kinda pearlescent tourquoisey green!
Apart from the colour this stuff is excellent! If you love coconut you'll love the smell of this stuff as it has a very natural coconut smell to it and not a chemically smell.
The creative genius comes in a large recyclable bottle giving you 200mls of the green liquid. To be fair liquid is the wrong word to use in describing it's constitancy, its more like a watery cream. The instructions for use are found on the bottle in rather small lettering! No I don't need ...
Advantages: Very funny film Disadvantages: Nothing
really funny to cheer me up - and this film proved to be it.
Real Genius is rated 15 and runs for 102 minutes. It was originally released in 1985 By Tristar Picture Inc. This DVD was released in 2002 by Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment. It cost £7.99.
This disc comes in a normal plastic DVD case with the title of the film and a picture of Val Kilmer on the front. Val is sat on an office desk, wearing a shirt and shorts with an 'I love toxic waste' tee shirt underneath.
The film is about a boy called Mitch Taylor (played by Gabe Jarret). Mitch is an extremely gifted fifteen year old. He applies to go to Pacific Technical College (even though he is about five years too young.) At a Winter Science Fayre, Professor Hathaway (played by William Atherton) a teacher at the College arrives to tell Mitch he has been accepted.
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welshfruitbat 30.01.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Real Genius (DVD)
1 x Casio NP-40 Li-ion rechargeable battery ( included )
4 x AAA ( optional )
Manufacturer's product description
The Genius G-Shot HD55 is a 5.0 Mega Pixel CMOS camcorder that is a high definition video camera (recorded at 30 fps/1280 x 720 pixels) and uses high-compression H.264 format. This allows the G-Shot HD55 to record still images and movies using less memory, and they that can be seen on high-resolution flat-panel TVs using the video cable. The G-Shot HD55 has a 3.0 inch TFT LCD color display that is adjustable and you can capture still images up to 8 mega pixel resolution by software interpolation. Using a Li-ion battery, the G-Shot includes a battery charger so you don't have to worry about loss of power. You can capture and take videos anywhere, anytime. The G-Shot HD55 is the first HD device in the Genius family and at a competitive price.
