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HP Photosmart M537 Digital Camera (6.1MP, 2864x2152, 3x Opt, 16MB Internal Memory, SD/MMC Card Slot)

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

Performance: Fair: 64
Features: Good: 70
Design: Good: 75

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Performance
Battery Life (minutes)	188.75
Battery Life Score	Very Good
Image Quality Score	Poor
Image Quality, Color	43.3
Image Quality, Distortion	34.9
Image Quality, Exposure	46.6
Image Quality, Exposure--Flash	51.6
Image Quality, Exposure--Normal	44.5
Image Quality, Overall	42.9
Image Quality, Sharpness	31.3
Number of Batteries	2
Number of Shots	345

User Reviews for HP Photosmart M537 Digital Camera (6.1MP, 2864x2152, 3x Opt, 16MB Internal Memory, SD/MMC Card Slot)

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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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.