Excellent Little Camera

Digital camera - 5.1 Megapixel - Optical Zoom: 5 - Digital Zoom: 8x - Weight: 0.2 kg - Flash memory: Integrated - Viewfinder: without Viewfinder

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The HP Photosmart R817 Digital Camera features a powerful Pentax 5x optical lens, 5.1 megapixel (MP) resolution and new intuitive HP Real Life technologies. This camera makes it...
more...easy for all photographers to capture unique detail in every picture. With the HP sculpted wave style finger grip and sleek stainless steel finish this camera is contoured to sit perfectly in the consumer's hand. This camera's advanced features include multi-zone auto focus for crisp accurate shots. Users are able to select shutter or aperture priority, or choose to take greater control by working within the 'full manual mode' in light sensitive situations, in order to capture more creative photographs. The camera has an impressive 40x total zoom (5x digital, 8x optical) and the large 5.1 cm LCD screen, which makes it simple to quickly view images, indoors and out, allowing users to check their shots as soon as they are taken. A choice of 15 unique shooting modes including action, landscape, beach and theater mode, gives users a definitive solution for any scenario. The new 'theater mode', for example, makes it easier to capture correctly exposed true-to-life photographs of concerts and performances at the touch of a button. Photographers can use this feature together with the extended zoom to get up close and personal, no matter where they are sitting. In addition, this camera benefits from a host of new and exclusive HP Real Life technologies. These landmark features include the new HP In-camera Panorama stitching, which allows users to 'stitch' together multi-shot photos of landscapes and sequences in the camera. The camera can seamlessly stitch up to 5 photos together, without the use of a PC, to create a single photo for easy printing. Panorama photos can then be previewed on the camera's large LCD screen, allowing users to confirm that they've captured their desired shot. This model is also equipped with a 'video mode', making it possible to capture the sights and sounds of every moment with picture perfect quality. Often, when reviewing video, photographers have a desire to extract specific frames or stills from the moving images. The HP Photosmart R817 Digital Camera makes it possible for users to print 'stills' directly from video footage, without the need for a PC. Users can extract, print and share any of the moving pictures as single frame photographs.

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Excellent Little Camera

A review by walmsleyj on HP PhotoSmart R817
April 9th, 2006

Author's product rating: HP PhotoSmart R817 - rated by walmsleyj

Picture Quality	Excellent
Range & Quality of Features	Excellent
Ease of Use	Very Easy
Overall Look & Design	Excellent
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Easy to use
Disadvantages:	Stainless Steel finish marks easily

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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When looking into purchasing a digital camera, and looking at friends cameras, it is amazing just how many buttons, options, schemes etc etc there are on the camera. Quite daunting to me, and I class my self as somebody who is well versed with electronics, gadgets etc.

As with most gadgets I don't think anybody uses to them to there full ability.....but with this camera, after just a few days of using, I had it all figured out.

Would recommed simply based on it simple to use menus.

It is then an added bonus that the picture quality is fantastic.

You'll see for my disadvantage I have put it marks easily. Thats all I could think of!!! if thats all I can think of, that says it all I think.

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Durability	Good
Reliability	Excellent
Size	Average
Weight	Average
Instruction Manual	Excellent

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