Polaroid 8.0MP Digital Camera - Purple (CIA-0834S)
From Polaroid
The Polaroid i834 digital camera is designed for your imaging needs. The i834 comes equipped with a powerful 8.0 megapixels CCD sensor, 3.0-inch bright color TFT LCD, high quality optics and many manual settings and options.
Brand: Polaroid Model: I834 Dimensions: 1.00 pounds Display size: 3
Great Camera for Great Price I just bought this camera after buying a really expensive one that broke with in the first month. It is really easy to use and great for point and shoot. Hard to find a camera with great zoom for under $150.00. Would definitly recommend for everyday use and for teen's or first time camera buyers. If your a pro photographer obviously this wouldnt work for you. But for the average person, its a great camera. Grape and Grin I work in a college A-V department, for which I've been able to advise on the purchase of high-end digital cameras - Canon pro dSLRs and the like. I bought this little Polaroid primarily as a joke: its bright plastic casing is almost the exact shade of purple as our official school color. The joke has turned out to be a rather pleasant surprise. The 8.0MP i834's image quality is perfectly acceptable for most situations, particularly small print and Web use. Bear in mind that using the camera's settings - such as keeping ISO to 50 or 100 max - and shooting in bright sunlight produce the best quality photos; that's nothing unusual in the point & shoot digicam market. As a professional photographer, I especially appreciate the Polaroid's manual overrides and mostly stick with the shutter-priority mode; aperture priority isn't as useful, since the camera seems to pick only about two or three aperture settings and not always the optimal ones for my situation. The i843's photos tend to be slightly grainy in shadow areas (the noise looks a lot like film grain, so I don't mind) but certainly capture plenty of detail. Colors generally are bright, vivid and nicely saturated, almost like Fujichrome slide film. Expect well over 700 images (at 8PM, Super Fine settings) per 2GB SD card. Marco mode works well for flower close-ups; framing via the bright 3" LCD is relatively easy but - as is the case with most LCDs - more of a challenge in strong sunlight, where the screen image washes out. The 3x optical zoom lens is fairly standard but offers a good amount of sharpness for this price range. Operation is quick, although focusing can take longer than anticipated for far-off subject or ones lacking contrast. (Helpful red and green markers appear on the LCD to indicate when focus and exposure are ready for the the photo to be taken.) The flash cycles in a respectable amount of time and is of average brightness. Using rechargeable AAs is the way to go, but since the large LCD eats a lot of power, having several spare Ni-MH AAs on hand will save headaches when out for a day of photo fun. The easy to navigate menus - one of the strong suits of Polaroid's digital cameras - offer tons of features and shooting modes, plus the nice option of color effects after an image has been taken - the camera will make a B&W or Sepia file of a color image, for example. Auto white balance performance works very well in daylight and seems about average in other circumstances. Playback is quick, too, as is deleting unwanted photos. Good control layout on the back puts everything within easy reach. So, while not top of the line, the Polaroid i834 offers a lot of enjoyment for the price. Judging from other reviews, reliability appears to be dodgy, to say the least, but as of this writing, I can report that after two month of moderate use, the i834 continues to work like a trooper. It's a good fit in the hand, responsive and just all around a blast to take with me. Besides, where else can I find a decent digicam in this shade of grape purple? If the friendly little Polaroid i834 makes folks smile even before I take a shot, I'm ahead of the game already. Awesome Camera I got this camera on my 13th birthday and it works really great. I haven't had any problems with it and there are so many options on the camera to choose from. There is an effects part where you can change the picture to black and white and other colors. A great plus is that there is a setting where the date will show up on the picture. It has a great zoom and the pictures come out in really fine quality. There is a setting on the camera that makes it real easy for beginners to use. I would definetly recommend this camera to anyone who would like a nice and easy camera to take pictures with.
