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HP 715 Digital Camera
This 3.3-megapixel camera is powerful yet simple to use, a great choice for a beginner. It runs on double-A batteries, so you don't need to recharge it. Pictures can be taken at a high 2,048-by-1,536 resolution.
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HP PhotoSmart 318
The HP Photosmart 318 ($190 street) has a generous 1.75-inch LCD viewfinder, a flash, 8MB of built-in memory, and support for an optional CompactFlash card. With the built-in memory you can store from 7 to 113 shots, depending on the resolution and compression level.
The Photosmart outperforms the Toshiba PDR-M11's zoom and pan playback. Recycle time is faster, and the Photosmart comes with an auto-focus lens that macros as close as 8 inches. And at 2.31 megapixels, the Photosmart has the ability to produce high-quality 5- by 7-inch prints.
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HP Photosmart 320
The HP Photosmart 320 ($200 street) is easy to use out of the gate, but the on/off button is flaky. While using the 320, I was never completely sure it was doing what I wanted. Also like the A201, the 320 shoots both still images and video and displays playback. The picture quality from the 320 was better than that of the A201. Flash options include auto, off, on, and red-eye reduction, and you can set image quality to good, better, and best. I noticed off the bat that a digital camera can lead to sloppy photos. Knowing you can simply erase a shot if it stinks is quite a crutch. If you did that with film cameras, you'd soon be broke. Uploading the 320's pictures to a computer was the easiest thing I've ever done on a PC, even though the port for the USB cable is inside the memory card door. This forces you to open the door to connect to the PC
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HP Photosmart 620
The HP Photosmart 620 is one of the easiest-to-use cameras in our roundup. Both have simple, understandable controls and an excellent menu system. But to achieve simplicity, the HP cameras are short on some manual controls featuresaking good pictures in less-than-perfect lighting. Image quality suffers a bit as a result.
The HP Photosmart 620 is large for a 2-megapixel camera, with much of the bulk coming from its four double-A batteries, which provide very good battery life. Operation is kept simplee
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HP Photosmart 812
The HP Photosmart 812, along with the Minolta DiMage S404, is one of the lowest-priced 4-megapixel cameras on the market. The company targets the 812 to photo enthusiasts, but like the low-end 620, it lacks exposure and white-balance controls that enthusiasts expect to find in a $500 camera. Nevertheless, HP might still have a hit with consumers. The 812's attractive silver-finish plastic case is not much larger than the ultra-compact Toshiba PDR-3310's. The controls are well organized, although the icons on the buttons are very small and difficult to see in dim light.
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HP Photosmart 850
The HP Photosmart 850 is a large, handsome camera that's easy to hold. Its most distinctive features are a rubberized handgrip and lens barrel, a huge 8X optical zoom lens, and a cylindrical electronic through-the-lens viewfinder that automatically turns on when you look through it. The camera dock with one-button upload is a $79 option.
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HP Photosmart 912
The 3X optical zoom lens appears to have a manual zoom focus, but turning the barrel activates a one-speed zoom motor. For parallax-free, power-saving viewing, the 912 incorporates a beam-splitter viewfinder.Unfortunately, the camera does not have an internal switch to close the eyepiece, so when you remove your eye from the viewfinder, extraneous light can cause streaking on the CCD. The snap-on eyepiece cover is not tethered and certain to get lost
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HP Photosmart 935
HP takes over CCD-size bragging rights with the 5.3-megapixel HP Photosmart 935. Feature-laden as it is, the 935 has its sights set on the point-and-shoot consumer who wants something extra. The camera's ease of use is exemplified in the legible and detailed help screens on the big LCD. The on-screen menu is functionally designed, and scroll buttons enhance the usability. The 935's boxy design won't win any style awards, but it fits well in your hand, and a molded contour on the camera face makes single-handed use (for "righties") easy
The 935 is certainly no slouch in terms of features. For starters, it has a 3X Pentax optical zoom and includes common exposure settings for action, landscape, and portrait, as well as aperture priority, metering, white balance (for sun, shade, tungsten, fluorescent, and manual), and various ISO speeds for more sophisticated shooters. The on-screen help can assist the uninitiated in taking pictures without resorting to the manual. Finally, HP's Instant Share button automates printing and e-mailing, and the company thoughtfully supplies an additional USB printer cable.
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HP Photosmart 945
The HP Photosmart 945 combines simplicity, good resolution, and very good image quality in a clunky-looking camera. It has an eye-level TTL electronic viewfinder, a pop-up flash, and a nonslip battery grip. A glorified point-and-shoot with relatively few controls, the HP 945 has a digital flash that dramatically improves available exposures and includes neat adaptive-lighting technology, and an e-mail button lets you mark a shot to be sent automatically over the Internet. Like the S7000, it comes with nonrechargeable lithium batteries, though HP does sell a cradle ($79, with rechargeables.
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HP Photosmart M417
The 5.2-megapixel HP Photosmart M417 ($199.99 direct) offers more or less what you would expect from an inexpensive camera: 3X optical zoom (6 mm to 18 mm, or a 35-mm equivalent of 36 mm to 108 mm, with a wide-aperture setting range of f/2.9 to f/4.9), a 1.8-inch LCD, various scene modes, and flash settings. Essentially, it gives people what they want, but not too much more.
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