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Photograph: Rick RiznerThat you can get any picture at all out of a $150 digital camera is an achievement in itself, but we're even more impressed that the price tag hangs from a 3.1-megapixel model. The Photosmart 435 is by far the least expensive model we've seen with that resolution. Despite the loss-leader price, it comes with 16MB of internal memory, plus a Secure Digital card slot. It's simple to use--slide open the smoothly operating lens cover to turn it on, and start snapping. You can even record movies (with audio). As on other HP models, the menus offer tons of help, with short text below the options to explain what they are, plus a more extensive help screen that you can reach with a few button pushes.
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Image Processor
| Number of image sensor pixels | 3.1 megapixels |
| Image sensor | CCD |
| Image sensor quantity | 1 |
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HP Photosmart 435
Hp Photosmart 435 Digital Camera (HP (Hewlett-Packard)-Q3731A) Review, by Alan Stafford November 6, 2003
What's Not: Just because it has a 3.1-megapixel sensor doesn't mean you get very good pictures. In our tests, the Photosmart 435 placed just behind the 2.1-megapixel Sony DSC-U50, which has a very tiny camera body. Pictures taken from a distance--an outdoor shot and an indoor still life--looked OK, but a magnified-and-cropped shot looked extremely grainy. The Photosmart 435 lacks a zoom lens (not a big surprise) and has just two aperture values available to it (f4 and f8), and no scene modes. A pair of AA batteries gave us just 186 shots, or 65 minutes of life, much below the average of cameras we've tested. The LCD looks very grainy, and it shows images in slow motion.
What Else: The Photosmart 435 goes well with the Photosmart 8886 camera dock. Though it costs more than half the price of the camera ($80), the dock is a good buy because it comes with a set of rechargeable camera batteries that the dock can juice up. The dock also comes with a remote control: You can use it to control a slide show if the dock is connected to a TV, and you can use the remote to e-mail photos if it's connected to a PC.
Upshot: Though we'd never recommend it to photo enthusiasts, the Photosmart 435 is well worth the $150 price. It'd be great as a starter camera.
Alan Stafford
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Reviewed by: haddcesk
Strengths: easy to use. User friendly. transfering the files is easy
Weaknesses: Power consumption too high.
Overall: You don't need to read the instructions manual because it is easy to use. It has a microphone built in that makes your video recording with sound. Most cameras don't have it. Once you connect the cable to the computer and turn camera on, the system starts to transfer the files to your computer. Power consumption of this camera looks like it is too high because batteries' life is too short.
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Reviewed by: aramidus44
Strengths: Light and easy to carry around; decent picture quality; video and audio capture; inexpensive.
Weaknesses: No optical zoom; bloated HP softwares.
Overall: Not a bad digital camera for a first time user like myself. Fairly easy to use and pictures are ok as long as the object you're trying to capture isn't too far away. Optical zoom would greatly help here but the price would be significantly higher too. The digital zoom does wonder up to a certain point, until you start seeing pixels on the LCD screen. I've been using rechargeable batteries from the beginning, and turning off the camera after each shot, so I can't really comment on the power usage (especially of the LCD screen). One thing I don't particularly like is the fact that when I installed the driver/software, five new icons appeared on my desktop, three of which have been utterly useless.
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Reviewed by: MATHYOU
Strengths: EASY TO USE
Weaknesses: N/A
Overall: I HAVE BEEN USING THE HEWLETT PACKARD 435 DIGITAL CAMERA FOR 7 WEEKS NOW. IT TAKES VERY CLEAR PICTURES AND IT VERY EASY TO USE. THE BUTTONS ARE SIMPLE YET THEY HAVE COMPLEX FUNCTIONS. EVEN MY KIDS COULD USE IT AND TAKE GOOD PICTURES. I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT FOR THE MONEY
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Reviewed by: ellenpbrown
Strengths: It was cheap, got it in a bundle deal with a compact photo printer. Small and pretty.
Weaknesses: Horrible battery life though i've found recharageables do last a little longer... i'm not sure that they're reccomened though. Unless lighting is perfect pictures are super grainy.
Overall: Couldn't imagine an easier to use set up... but with conveniece comes a price. i went through a 12 pack of batteries the first week i had it, first few photos were perfect and i was amazed, later in the day i found that perfect photos were few and far between as you need perfect, natural lighting. But, yeah, it's cheap & easy i take lots of pics of my cats with it.
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Reviewed by: jaxxboss
Strengths: Sturdy build, yet feels light. Light drain on batteries. Pictures are rather sharp for a camera without optical zoom.
Weaknesses: Well, it only has dig zoom. Many other similar equipped cameras are available with more features.
Overall: I really liked this camera as a back up and I let me kid bring it to school. It's something I don't have to worry about being knocked about and stuff as it is a sturdy camera. Rather a plain Jane in the looks dept but it does deliver a nice picture and it can be printed without the need for a computer too. Of course with a computer u can send it to print or email a picture right off.
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