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HP Photosmart M537

74

Good
  • Pros
  • Anti-shake mode
  • Generous software bundle
  • Cons
  • Disappointing image quality
  • Few manual controls

User Reviews for HP Photosmart M537

  • Reviewed by: johnL

    Duration of ownership: 1 Day

    Strengths: It's easy to use, uses AA batteries, photos look good enough for email

    Weaknesses: Photos are NOT good enough for enlargements

    Overall Evaluation: This seems to be a good little camera, until you try to make blow-ups or look at the full-size photo on your computer. Any area of solid color in the photo (like, say, SKIN!) has HUGE blobs of different colors in it. A 6MP camera should be able to produce an 8x10 print easily, and this one fails horribly; full-frame 8x10 prints are absolutely unacceptable, and even full-frame 4x6 prints are not very good. Videos also are very jumpy with very bad sound. We used this camera for a day, taking pictures indoors and out, and we thought it was great until we looked at the enlargements. Forget it! There are plenty of cameras that are better than this one for the same price; we switched to a Fuji F650 and love it.

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    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: no strengths

    Weaknesses: everything.

    Overall Evaluation: everything about this camera was terrible. if you take a picture, it'll look good but try to zoom in and you'll see what appears to be blotchiness and big spots of yellow & brown all over your picture. the shutter time is terrible, and the battery life isn't worth two pennies. i absolutely hate this camera. i've moved to a sony cyber shot now. it is terrific. don't bother with this camera, because you'll end up replacing it in do time.

  • Reviewed by: m_gupta001

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: 6 MP, high resolution, takes crisp picture, SD\MMC card slot, antishake mode, red eye reduction

    Weaknesses: battery life, poor audio quality for video, smaller LCD screen

    Overall Evaluation: I used this camera for couple of weeks and I really like the features and extra stuff it offered for the price. Its a slick point and shoot camera with very easy to use interface. It consumes a lot of battery so it always advisable to carry 2-3 set of rechargable batteries. Shutter speed is not that good. it takes a while for the flash to go off and come again. This matters when you are taking picture of any moving object and you don't want to miss the shot.

  • Reviewed by: NISHIPRASAD8

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: cheap,take good picture6.1 MPslick design

    Weaknesses: bad battery life,only 16 MB internal memory,bad night picture

    Overall Evaluation: I got this from staples with free printer. its a good point and shoot camera for beginner. It does the decent job. Takes great camera in day light .. nice slick & sturdy body. It has a bad battery life, only 16 MB internal memory so you need to buy extra memory card.

  • Reviewed by: badari

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Inexpensive, ease of use, AA batteries

    Weaknesses: low light image quality, shutter lag

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this camera as its easy to carry around. Pictures are nice quality with enough lighting, camera is easy to use. Image quality is not so great under low light conditions. One of my biggest complaint is shutter lag - it takes few seconds to take the picture after pressing button. We are used to almost instant click with my other expensive camera. But for the price I paid (under $60), I am completely happy with the purchase. One more feature this camera has which I missed for a while is, the ability to imprint date on the photo image. Overall, its a decent starter camera.

  • Reviewed by: thuwoody

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: It's cheap. And the picture quality is pretty good. Easy to use. Very good anti shake.

    Weaknesses: The LCD is not good, and it just stop working sometimes.

    Overall Evaluation: The picture quality of this camera is very good among products with a similar price. I purchased this one after comparing the picture quality of several other products. And it really worth the price. But the LCD is not so good. The pictures will looked very ugly on the LCD. But they are good when transferred to the computer. And the computer stopped working twice within one month. I have to take out the batteries to reset the camera. But it's just a cheap camera. And I am satisfied with this one.

HP Photosmart M537 Review

by Eric Butterfield

- The 6-megapixel HP Photosmart M537 is a basic point-and-shoot camera with a 3X zoom, a 2.5-inch LCD, and a very low cost ($130 as of 5/10/07). On the surface, the M537 offers an adequate number of features for the price, such as in-camera red-eye removal, a maximum sensitivity of ISO 800, and image stabilization.

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