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This camera has a lot of features for the buck. It is easy to operate. I found that if it won't download the images, just restart the Photowise program, turn the camera off and then on again. It is a good idea to use a power adapter when downloading to spare the batteries. However, it can be difficult to find a cheap 1 amp adapter. At first I thought this camera could not produce good images. But, with some practice, it's not too bad. Just make sure there is plenty of light. I don't recommend monitor image sizes much bigger than 4.5 X 3.4. The video still images are quite acceptable . The video camera moving picture is pretty noisy, even when the subject is well lit. After reading about imagers, I am guessing that this camera has a CMOS imager because of its low light sensitivity. CCD imagers are still much better.

I think with realistic expectations, you will be contented with this camera.

It is absolutely useless. The pictures are grainy, blurry, and have color aberrations galore. You can't even see facial features on people. It is not a true 640x480 camera; it uses software to obtain the 640x480 advertised resolution. Downloads are horribly slow, and the memory is not removeable, so you can't use a better download method. It will drain the batteries with only one loading and unloading of the 2MB memory. This thing is not even useful as a toy for your children. Fortunately I bought from a reputable online dealer who took the thing back, and even refunded all shipping charges. Do yourself a favor and get an Olympus D-360L or D-460Z. ...a lot more money, but about the least you can pay for a digital camera that takes decent pictures.

DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA!

I don't think that this camra is very good, I took pictures and the dpi is really bad it's too big and the pictures look really bad also. I was amazed how fast the Batteries ran out. I suggest you don't buy this.

The images from this camera were incredibly bad. I gave up after taking three pictures. The quality of output is dreadfull. I know its a low end product, but still I expected better than it delivered. Bad images and incredibly heavy on batteries. Amazon have been excellent, I contacted them to tell them how bad it was and they've agreed a full refund. I should have followed the advice from fellow Reviewers. Avoid it, spend another $200 dollars and go for a 'proper' digital camera instead!

Just like any other camera, sometimes you get good pictures and sometimes you get bad pictures. Most bad pictures can be attributed to "operator error" or bad lighting. Yep, it chomps batteries, but other digital cameras use more than 2 at a time. I had a Kodak (DC40? )digital camera through work several years ago and it took only about 25 shots on 4 batteries. The pictures were very comparable to the Agfa's. .... As a video camera, it is absolutely fantastic. The image quality is *much* better than we expected for the money. ...if [people want] a mega-fantastic, all the bells-n-whistles digital camera...they'd need to shell out a WHOLE lot more....