Advantages: Reasonable image quality, In Camera red eye removal, Disadvantages: Noisy Pictures, Chromatic Abhorrations
...INTRODUCTION
The Photosmart 415 is HP's basic entry level 5 MP camera. It comes equipped with a 3x Optical zoom lens, 6 x digital zoom, a 1.5" TFT screen, a supposed 16 Megabytes of internal memory (more on that later), selectable ISO levels, picture effects, in camera red eye removal, innovative Adaptive lighting system and 8 (so HP claim) shooting modes. As a standalone unit it's virtually identical to it's big brother the M417 apart from the smaller LCD, 1x less on the digital zoom, and lack of a burst mode, and as such it's not available in many shops or online stores. HP is selling through their online partner store Insight for the supposed price of £90 (actually £91.99) which, after Arfur Daley's favourite tipple has been added, works out at £108.09, a remarkably cheap price for a branded 5 Megapixel snapper...
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Advantages: Clear bright pictures, Excellent built-in features, Good value for money, easy to use Disadvantages: None in my view
...;This is a really powerful camera having 8.2 Megapixel (up to 3312 x 2496 pixels) with 8x Digital Zoom and 3x Optical Zoom (24 x totals zoom).
It has 3inches colour image display i.e. LCD screen.
It has an internal memory of 32MB (up to 10 photos) that can be expanded with SD memory cards.
This is a durable HP's latest technology camera that also features Auto Red-eye Removal, HP Adaptive Lighting, Image Enhancement, Design Gallery, Noise Filter, Preferred Photo Production, Panorama Preview and Stitching, Photo Advice and AE bracketing facilities.
Manual Controls of the camera includes, AE bracketing, AE metering, ISO speed, auto focus area, colour bracketing, contrast, image quality, , saturation, sharpness, video quality, white balance
There is also a built-in flash with fill-in mode, auto mode...
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Advantages: Excellent pictures, 7 shooting modes, direct printing capability... Disadvantages: A bit big...
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13. Playback
This camera also has: microphone, self-timer for the video, incorporated flash, power adapter connector, USB connector, tripod mount, camera dock connector. On the top of the camera you'll find Sutter button which records audio and takes picture and Video button which starts and stop recording a video.
The memory card I purchase it separately, but the camera contains internal memory - 16 Mb - which allows you to store images and video clips. ( The card I purchased is HP Photosmart 256MB SD memory card-L18113A - not that I understand very much this technological name, as far as I know is that you can make 100 - 4 MP best - pictures or more and a 30 minutes video-good for me)
So if you have a memory card or not, you can use the camera from the first minute that comes after inserting the batteries on, thing...
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In summary:
* Very unintuitive, convoluted and unpleasant to use (same on Win2K as XP)
- sometimes the SW hangs during scan and needs a reboot
- sometimes the SW crashes with a dialogue "try reinstalling HP software", and needs a reboot
- sometimes... more
I am in no way a professional photographer, indeed I am more a 'point, click and pray for the best' type photographer, but this camera has made my results much better than expected. I actually got this camera as a second choice after the one I wanted was more