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Bought one from Amazon and begun immediately to take shots with the included batteries. Agfa's box made me thought it was a toy instead of a real camera. Looks good and is very small (wrong measures detailed on amazon) Beware: it lacks of an LCD screen and you WON'T be able to review your pictures until you get to your PC. When I downloaded (very easy to instal and download, but slooooow transfer over serial port only) my first bunch of photos I found the quality to be TOO BAD to get printed. No way. This camera wasn't for me. It's ok if you want to send brochures or e-mail attachments, but don't point it on your sons at the park: IT IS NOT A TRUE 640x480 camera. It's a tweaked 320x240 I guess. No selections or settings. Gave it to a digital-photo-novice friend and he LOVED it (his first camera). If you want to take pictures of people this is not the camera for you, better go spend some extra bucks, but if you want to make your first digital steps or just take shots for e-mail or brochures it's ok. 4 stars cosidering the price...

Fairly easy to use but the resolution was unacceptable. Thepurchase [price] makes it a good buy for a beginner.

. STOP!!! . 1/ This camera is NOT 640x480, is a fixed 320x240. CCD is not even 1/3 megapixel, is 1/10 I think. Images are bad (like enlarging a thumbnail?) Print them in an 1x1 inch rectangle and they'll be somehow fine, anything bigger is like old CGA... awful. When you take shots they look very bad, whatever you do to edit (software) and fix them. I have another (true) 640x480 camera and pictures are excelent, but these...

2/ It doesn't include an AC adapter, so be prepared to buy LOTS of AA batteries or spend another 50 bucks.

3/ Fine as a serial videoconference camera (30 fps), but watch for the batteries.

4/ Take your first picture, and begin to wonder if it's ok. The lack of an LCD screen begins to bother you when you find out you can't review your shots. Think about it: you wont review your pictures untill you get to the PC.

Sorry I am very disappointed.

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.

I'll make this short and sweet:This camera realy suck quality wise.Its cheap and youll need alot of batteries.If you want to get something that wont go obsolete too fast than get a scanner