1. 7.2-megapixel sensor captures resolution of 3112 x 2328 resolution
2. 3x optical zoom, 8x digital zoom
3. Easily view and edit shots on the 2.5-inch image display that's bright enough to see outdoors
4. Stores images on 32 MB internal memory, Secure Digital memory card slot
5. Lithium-ion battery provides up to 275 shots on single charge

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Get close to your subjects with a 3x optical, 8x digital zoom with the 7.2 Megapixels Photosmart R827 Digital Camera, then automatically remove red eye right from the camera. With special steady-photo anti-shake, this innovative camera helps you prevent blurred photos. Share, save, and print, plus order prints online, using the HP Photosmart Express software HP In-camera Red-eye Removal, HP Design Gallery (Artistic Effects, Borders, Colors), HP Adaptive Lighting, HP In-camera Panorama Preview and Stitching, HP Image Advice, Video Prints, HP Adaptive Demosiac, HP Noise Filter, HP Preferred Photo Reproduction, HP Vignetting, Adaptive lighting bracketing Manual controls - Adaptive lighting, adaptive lighting bracketing, AE bracketing, AE metering, auto focus area, color bracketing, contrast, EV compensation, image quality, ISO speed, automatic red-eye removal, saturation, sharpness, video quality and white balance Shooting modes - Action, Auto (default), Beach, Document, Landscape, Night Scenery, Night Portrait, Panorama left, Panorama right, Portrait, Snow, Sunset, Theatre, Steady Photo Connectivity - 1 dock connector, 1 USB connector, 1 DC input connector Operating systems - Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows Vista Ready, Mac OS X v 10.3.9 and Mac OS X v 10.4 or higher Dimensions - 3.67 x 0.93 x 2.4 inch without protrusions Weight - 0.4 pounds with battery

Customer Review :

Amazing functions, really easy to operate

I used this camera for family photos and obtained really good results, the camera combined with the software provided produced good quality photos, excellent on-screen presentation and great prints.

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1. 3.1 megapixel sensor captures enough detail to create photo-quality 8 x 10 prints and medium-quality prints up to 11 x 14
2. 5x continuous digital zoom
3. Snap a photo and select your preferred destination--e-mail addresses, printers, and more
4. 16 MB internal memory; compatible with Secure Digital and MMC memory cards
5. Powered by 2 AA batteries (alkalines included, rechargeables recommended); connects to PCs and Macs via USB 1.1

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Okay for a cheap older camera

Good for quick and easy shots at parties and such. It's not a tiny little camera and obviously not pro material, but the quality is reasonable considering the cost and age. At 3MP, it is a good choice for someone who wants snapshots to post online or wants only smaller-size prints. I'm the world's worst about fuzzy pictures and this camera is fast enough to offset my shaky hands.

The only real drawback - and it's significant - is that the lens cover slides open too easily. Mine opens inside the camera case. Considering that opening the cover also turns on the camera, that means battery drain as a side effect. Presumably everyone uses rechargeable batteries these days. Even so, I'd recommend keeping the batteries out of the camera until you're ready to use it, or you'll find that you don't have enough power to snap anything.

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Do not waste your time and money on this product.

This camera was a gift. After using it for three months, the LCD screen became unreadable and the pictures stored in the memory disk were pixelated to the point of abstract art. I do not recommend buying this camera for personal use or anyone else for that matter. Another alternative would be Nikon or Canon brand point and shoot digital cameras. (Not endorsing other products but HP are not known for digital photography, though a admirable attempt at it).



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UGH!!!

This camera drinks battery juice like an alcholic drinks beer. Piece of junk that takes horrible, low-quality photos. Not even worth $50 new. One of the worst digital cameras I have ever used.

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I've had better.

The pros about this cam is that the pictures.. were decent. And the software was pretty cool.

But the cons? You could not keep enough batteries around to keep it goin.. and the flash is way too bright.. it even actually effected the pictures.

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My first digital camera!!! :D :D :D

This was my first digital camera. In fact, I still keep it around. In think is a pretty good and decent camera. It is easy to use and it is not heavy. Is perfect for vacations, party's, and other activities.

Ok, so the flash it is not so great. And it really uses up batteries rather fast.

Anyway, I would buy it again if i could :D :D!!



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1. Box Content - HP Photosmart Mz67 Digital Camera, 2 alkaline AA batteries, USB cable, Quick Start Guide, warranty/regulatory brochure, CD with HP Photosmart software for Windows and Macintosh, User's Guide and wrist strap
2. 8 Megapixel stills, Up to 3264 x 2448 resolution, QVGA 320x240 at 24 fps
3. 16MB of internal memory - We recommend purchasing a 1 GB SD Memory Card for practical usage
4. 2.5 (diagonal) (6.4 cm) bright indoor/outdoor viewable color LCD display
5. HP Precision Lens System - 48x total zoom, 6x optical & 8x digital, f2.8 (wide), f4.8 (telephoto)

Editorial Review :

Get closer with 6x optical zoom on the Photosmart MZ67 8 Megapixel camera with red-eye removal and a big, bright 2.5-inch display. Get more detailed photos with HP steady photo anti-shake feature. Get closer using the HP Precision lens for stunning long-distance shots. Easily see your photos indoors or outdoors. Get the photo you intended to take, using industry-leading in-camera red-eye removal. Quickly store your favorite photos in a dedicated in-camera folder for easy sharing. Prevent blur and get crisp, detailed photos at the touch of a button with HP steady photo anti-shake mode. Easily snap your best shot with shooting modes including burst, theatre, sunset, panorama and more. Recording your moving memories is simple, using one-touch video with audio. Shooting Modes - Auto Mode (default), Close Up, Super Close Up, Steady Photo, Theatre, Landscape, Portrait, Action, Night Portrait & Sunset Operating Systems - Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows Vista, Mac OS X v 10.3.9, Mac OS X v 10.4 or higher Dimensions - 3.89 x 1.73 x 2.5 with protrusions, (98.7x44x63.6mm) Weight - 0.5 pounds with batteries, 0.22 kg

Customer Review :

Bang for My Buck!!!! Lucky Me!

I have wanted a digital camera for a long time but couldnt justify the expenditure and I didnt want to get one with less than $5 mp. This camera is GREAT! it has red eye remover build in the camera, the pics and clear and the zoom is very good and the software is good. I am very happy with the purchase and the price makes it sweet! Great images and now im ready for anything.

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What is wrong with the color of my photos???

I am very disappointed with this camera. I hate to leave a negative review, but I have no choice...I have owned several HP digital cameras(and other products) over the past several years and have loved each and every one of them(I am very faithful to buying only HP products) . They were all easy to use right out of the box and I never ever had any problems with the color of my photos. UNTIL NOW:( I was so exicted to purchase this camera and could not wait til it arrived.It got awesome reviews so I knew it had to be good... The seller sent it promptly(THANK YOU J&R camera:) and when it arrived I opened the box, and I immediatly started to use it. I work with preschoolers and could not wait to see the photos I had taken of the little cuties. Much to my surprise my photos were a horrible shade of YELLOW!! So I tried again and again and still my photos were yellow...Now, I'm no professional photographer, but I do have several years of experiance using digital cameras, and have never had a problem like this...I called HP and after over an hour of trouble shooting, they sent me a replacement camera thinking perhaps it was defective. Well, that was a month ago and I still have the same issues. I am not sure what I could be doing wrong. I have tried changing the settings and everything and still they are yellow. I am not used to having to change any settings for the color, as I have never had to in the past and my photos turned out beautiful...so perhaps I'm doing something wrong...or perhaps this isn't the camera for me....it's certainly not as easy to use as my past cameras...unfortunatly, it has been over 30 days and I can't return it. I wish I knew how to solve this problem....HP tech support only left me frustrated...

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Batteries & Flash

Bought 2 of these & gave 1 to a friend - Had flash problems right away & dealt w/ H.P.Support 4 times - They claimed batteries were the problem each time!
After buying fresh rechargables locally twice w/ no improvement I got Sony batteries & it works perfect

A great camera @ a low price w/ superb tech support
Thank You

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Totally useless outdoors

This is the first HP product we have ever regretted buying. This camera is totally useless outdoors in bright sunlight. You cannot see a thing on the LCD screen, even at its brightest setting, and the battery saving feature turns it off too soon while you are struggling to see the picture. Trying to use the zoom with a questionable live view is also impossible as you cannot find your target. The photos that do result appear to be OK, but you can't count on getting what you really wanted. We had to resort to our old HP Photosmart 935 camera on recent vacation - fortunately we took both along. Whoever decided that optical viewfinders should be eliminated is crazy. And, to not be able to recharge batteries without a dock is absurd while travelling. HP - rethink your line of cameras!

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amazing little camera

A close friend purchased one of these cameras over a year ago (an older model than mine) and I was instantly amazed at how user friendly it was. My daughter was looking at digital cameras and I suggested the HP which after doing some research she purchased the HP MZ67. After playing around with hers I also bought one! The pictures are clear, it takes wonderful videos, has a nice large veiwing screen and the price is hard to beat. My friend is still using her older model as well with no complaints!

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1. 5 MP effective resolution
2. 2332 x 1740 effective pixel count
3. 16 MB internal Flash memory
4. 1.5-inch Color LCD
5. Slot for memory card Secure Digital (SD) or MultiMedia Card (MMC) memory card

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Take photos at 5 MP resolution for beautiful 10 x 15 cm prints and enlargements up to poster size. Get closer with 4x digital zoom. Grab short video clips with sound. No complicated set up, just point and shoot and your camera does the rest.Find your way around in no time using the intuitive button layout. Frame and review your photos via the clear, bright 3.8 cm display. Store dozens of photos with 16 MB internal memory; choose optional SD/MMC card for extra capacity.Print with or without a computer - print to any PictBridge-enabled printer or via memory card. Send photos by e-mail without large attachments using HP Instant Share. Edit, organize, print and share photos using HP Image Zone software.

Customer Review :

Great, reliable, little camera

I'm surprised to see low reviews for this camera! I purchased one a little over 3 years ago, my first digital camera! It was great, easy to use, never any problems and I used it for my first photography class and was taking better pictures than most of the more expensive models! After about a year, I purchased a larger more expensive camera and gave this one to my daughter to "use". Two years later and I still haven't gotten it back...she loves it, hasn't had any problems with it either; and has no intention of returning it! I'm thinking about getting another one to carry with me for those unexpected photo ops.

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Decent pics, good price

I've had this HP Photosmart E317 for almost two years. Use it for taking still pictures of items I auction online. For this and for distance shots, it's alright. For close-ups, not so great...just can't get the nitty-gritty details. Like others have said, alkaline battery life is lousy though double when you're not using the flash. Display is clear; it's easy to use; settings are adequate; downloading easy; price was right. Don't expect professional grade pics from this. As a backup or for a camera you won't have to worry about, this will work.

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Good but a pain

I got this camera as a gift for Christmas last year and I was happy that i got it. the only thing that i have to complain about about this camera is the fact that it eats the battery up like there is no tomorrow. i can't tell you how many batteries i went through so that I can use the camera. and also the flash takes a long time to charge up and that really mad the people i was trying to take a picture of very irritated. Though it has its flaws, the camera is overall a good camera. it takes very good pictures and they are as clear as day. But I just feel this isn't the camera for me and that's why I'm about to buy another one.

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Dissapointed

Ok, I bought this for $103 for Christmas at the end of 2005. The second day I experienced problems, like it shutting off by itself. It also ate up all the batteries. Then I got rechargeable batteries, but those were "killed" by the camera within a few months. The camera's pictures can be good, ok, or HORRIBLE. The pictures are easily shaken and the video "sucks." You can't see a thing in a video unless you literally have a flashlight shining light behind you. It is also quite fat and may even loose pictures from the memory on its own. In October 2006 I also experienced a new problem: When taking pictures outdoors the pictures come out completely white. Now it is December 25, 2006, exactly one year after I opened the package, and the LCD screen turns black by itself after some while. The picture quality is horrible and so is everything else. You could say that it "literally" lasted me a year, but it lost all the pleasures (if there were any to begin with) within the first two months, or so. Please don't waste your money...this completely ruins my opinion on HP...get a nice Kodak or Nikon or anything else than the HPE317.

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bad camera, bad cust service from HP

I used this camera while studying abroad. It lasted until the last day of my trip, then the memory card wouldn't stay in the slot. I'm careful with my equipment and never dropped the camera or anything like that.

However, I disliked the camera prior to it completely not working, as the view screen (there is no view finder) jerks around so that you cannot see what you're aiming at unless your hand is completely still. Also, the battery cover does not like to stay closed.

As I'm still under the mfr warranty, I faxed the receipt, model and serial nbrs, and my contact info several times and am still experiencing unresolved customer service issues with HP tech support. If you want to avoid the possibility of problems like the above and do not want to deal with a cust service headache, go with a decent camera for a little more money. Sony Cybershots have worked well for other people I know.

I should also add that I bought this camera even after reading all the reviews on Amazon about it, because it was the cheapest thing (about eighty bucks) available in the little town I'm from. I thought the worst reviews were maybe overrated, but just on the basis of the horrible customer service I've received so far I would not buy another HP camera again and likely will never buy another HP printer, either.

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1. 5.3 megapixel sensor captures enough image information to make photo-quality 11x17-inch prints
2. 8x optical zoom and 7x digital zoom
3. Large 2-inch LCD screen; Direct photo printing allows you to attach directly to an HP Photosmart printer or select HP all-in-one to print photos
4. Store images on Secure Digital (SD) memory card (32 MB card included)
5. Powered by 4 AA batteries (alkalines included, NiMH or photo-lithium recommended)

Customer Review :

Good Camera Overall

I liked the look, feel, and operation of this camera, it served me quite well and has now been passed on to my daughter to go along with her new HP computer. I replaced my 945 with an R967, because I wanted a higher resolution camera, and the smaller size of the 967 was a huge plus. Anyway, the only things I did not like about my 945 are a)it SUCKS BATTERIES!!! and b)this cam does not take pix in low light well (although I must admit I am far from an expert on how to do this anyway)

As far as dealing with HP, I'm quite pleased, they are fast and competitively priced.

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Great Pics with Some Problems

I have owned this camera for over 3 years. Picture quality is amazing,particularly if you are into landscapes. True colors are obtainable in any light if you know how to adjust the manual tuning features. My main gripe is the periodic shutting down of the camera . It occasionally locks up with lens out or just turns itself off. When this happens you need to remove the batteries and replace or simply turn it back on. Lag time for shutter action from button push is too slow but average for this level of camera and price. Lithium batteries last a reasonable amount of time for this size of device. Re-chargeable batteries last about " 15 mintues" it seems.

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peice of junk

I too got took on this one. Looked great, had lots of features. Got it for my birthday what a waste of money. I bet I didn't take 50 pictures with it before it died. I also bought all the extras that went along with it. Got a lot of money tied up in this camera and can't get hp to fix it or anything. All they wanted me to do was buy another hp camera and waste more money. HP can't make cameras they better stick to computers. If you buy one of these cameras it will work fine for a while then (bam) it's dead without warning. There may be a few out there still working. If so you are one of the lucky ones to have a working one. I will never buy an hp camera.

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Loved it while I had it

I loved this camera as I too was reminded of my old 35 SLR. The HP945 took beautiful pictures and the zoom was great! I had this camera 3 years and couldn't even pretend to know how many pics it actually took. More than I could ever count. With that said, about 4 months ago the LCD began having lines in it which also came out the the pictures. IT was sudden. My huspand said it was "over use" LOL. Anyway, called HP which couldn't do anything about it as it was 3 years old. Did offer me a discount off a new, diffrent model of my choice. After reviewing the options I decided I was better off just looking into finding me something else. I chose the FujiS700. I was excited about this one too. But two months after I purchased it, the LCD stopped working, went black. As it was over 30 day's old, the place purchased wouldn't take it back so I sent it back to Fuji. At my cost. Anyway, I'm back to looking for another camera while waiting for the Fuji to be fixed. I should have stuck with HP.

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HP camera

When I bought this camera I was looking for a decent MP digital camera with decent zoom. I didn't want one of those tiny camera's, I wanted something that I could firmly grip and not fear losing easily. This camera is hefty and suited my need in that way. After about 1 yr the battery door broke; it still locks into place, but it doesn't attach to the camera any longer. I haven't been terribly pleased with the long delay the camera has in taking pictures, often times I miss the shot due to the delay, and that's not using the digital feature, which adds even more time delay. Overall I've been happy with it, I get many compliments on my photos, but to be honest it's not that much better than our first digital camera which is a 3MP with 12zoom and still in use without any issues. I probably wouldn't buy this medel again.

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