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This was a Christmas present for my family last year. We wanted a cheap camera that could help us to determine if we would use a digital camera or not. So I try it out, and I go to transfer to my computer, but the software freezes up. I try again. Same thing. I went to their web site to email tech support. But in order to do that, I had to sign up for their services, which included free promotional offers and whatnot. So I called tech support. They said to try to order new software from them and then it would work. I said okay, and it was shipped to me. I tried again, and there was no luck again. I called once more, and they decided that the problem had to have been a faulty serial cable. They shipped one for free, and the camera still failed to work. Finally, I dug into their FAQ and found out that all I had to do was download a small program and all of my problems would be solved. Needless to say, I was not pleased.
The image quality can be anywhere from poor to good, depending on lighting. The memory is limited, the serial cable is slow...bottom line, unless you can't find any other cheap cameras, then don't spend money on this.

PROS:
- a decent starter
- good quality in light
- cheap

CONS:
- Unless you have a steady hand, you're going go have some fuzzy pics
- terrible tech support (I had to spend money on stuff I actually didn't need)
- batteries didn't last long
- only 2 MB of memory

i bought this and its great
but the only bad thing u need to be close to the object u taking photo and the Flash is not that powerful.
and the pictures are good and its good for printing.
and something else if they made this camera in the first place they sould include USB cuz its slow with Serial port
overall its good(...)

i bought mine about 4 months ago and i have babied it immensly. i now have a white screen that means it has internal malfunction. ok that is the bad news, but i wanted to tell you the good news. they are going to fix it for free and then also let me upgrade for quite abit off to a nicer camera. just keep that in mind if you buy a poloroid camera, you can always upgrade for less than to buy it new. even tho mine is broken, i like the customer service and also that they offer other products at reduced rates. take care and hope this helps

Basiclly, I bought this camera after a short term job, and I decided it was all I could afford at the time.

Truthfully..the camera has not been good enogh for what I wanted, but do you really expect that from a digital camera under 100 dollars? Really, you won't find a better camera for this price, but you won't get much out of it. I know I will be re-saleing this camera as soon as I get a better job, so I can take pictures at a better clarity, though my most useful trick with the camera is to take all of your pictures at the high resolution option, and then resize them with your paint program, it helps create a sharper image.

If you are just planning to take close up pictures of your face or something, it's a good camera, but if you wanted to take pictures of vacations, or scenary, you will not like this, and I suggest you wait a few months until you can afford a better camera.

This is a good camera for 80 bucks at....it even has a lcd display not common on cheaper models!!!