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: Small and compact Disadvantages: Not enough space to be useable
...My latest phone is an Orange SPV C550. The prerequisite to buying this phone was that it had to have a memory card inside to save off MP3's and photos.
The card I got with this was a Sandisk Mini SD 128MB card.
When you take the card out you realise just how small it is. I would say its just a bit smaller than a standard postage stamp. I was amazed at how the size of memory has reduced over recent years.
The small physical size also has the added benefit that you can store it almost anywhere and not worry about it taking up space. Unfortunately this has the added effect of being easy to loose.
The actual card as I said stores up to 128MB of data. For the purpose of my phone this just isn't big enough so I have recently replaced the card with a bigger one. The 128MB card is now used as a spare and to transfer files between PC...
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Advantages: Light, Compact, Fully Automated - Easy to use :just point & click!, Quite Robust. Disadvantages: Lacks manual functions such as white balance adjustment, Heavy on them AA batteries!, Skinny 16MB SD card supplied! need to buy at least a 128MB as an accessory.
...This is my first digital camera, and overall I am delighted with what I have bought for just under £300 (well, I paid £289.99 about 9 months ago from Staples)
The CCD is at 4.1 million pixels, but delivers an effective 3,8 million.The camera is very small and light at just 95 x 41 x 70 mm and 250 g (so says the tech. spec.).
The curmudgeonly 16MB SD card supplied doesn't hold much - so I recommend you buy a 128M stick as an extra, if you are not buying on-line, try haggling with the salesperson they may do you a deal.
On pressing the power button the Pentax 7.6mm-22.8mm lens pops out, retracting its protective cover, typical startup time is about 2-3 seconds, a little slow – but I believe many point and shoot digital cameras suffer from this.
The 32x26mm LCD display gives a good clear picture at many viewing angles...
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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
Screen Size in Inches:8 in - with Loudspeakers - with USB - with Remote Control - Screen Format:4:3 - Horizontal Resolution:800 pixel - Vertical Resolution:600 pixel
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