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The resolution on this camera isn't very good, and it takes a good 7 seconds to take the picture. So you have sit there forever.

This is a low cost camera. Do not expect fabulous, magazine quality pictures. For decent pictures use bright light, and the high resolution setting. The low setting will give fuzzy pictures. The flash uses a lot of batteries. If you don't use the flash the batteries will last a lot longer. This is a fun, toss it in your purse kind of camera. It works great if that is what you want and don't expect more.

This is the worst camera I have ever had, digital *or* film. I asked for an nice entry level digital camera for Christmas last year and this is what I got. It has already broken TWICE and I have had to have it replaced. The first time it took forever for me to actually get ahold of customer service because they don't give you a number to call until you submit your info and go through all kinds of troubleshooting over the web. They sent me a new camera within 3 weeks and I sent the bad one back. Low and behold 3 months later the new one they sent me HAD THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM!!!!! This time they have told me their process has changed and I have to send in the bad one first before they will send me a new one. The whole process will take about 6-8 weeks they have said. I'll almost be out of warranty by that time and it'll probably just break again....arg!!! You'd be better off buying a throw away camera....DON'T BUY THIS ONE!!

Had it for about a month. Took about 80 pictures.

PROS SO FAR: * good pictures for the price * easy to use * extremely fast upload to pc * software has a fair amount of features * my experiences of their phone support are patient, through & quite knowledgable

CONS SO FAR: * details or group pictures in a distance are not sharp, probably because of the low resolution * can't seem to separate dark colors that well * closeups of less than 20 inches will not be sharp * for Win98, see if you have mspclock.sys in your pc first, unless you're quite computer literate; I went thru the uninstallation & installation process more than 15 times!

MISCELLANEOUS: * important to use lighting & follow their instrcutions to take pictures * hooks up to tv instead of having a LCD for pictures * for the price & my needs/expectations, I'm quite happy * I bought mine refurbished for [price] * ....

Good Luck!

I bought this camera after reading two of the posted reviews and I must admit it has been a waste of money. To get one good photo I ended taking about thirty and still ended up doing quite a bit of editing to get it decent. For emailing stuff etc It's passable (once you can get the shot you want!!!) for printing, you'd end up just wasting your Photo paper! Do yourself a favour, invest the money and buy something a bit more expensive. The extra money you spend will more than outweigh the frustration with this item.