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This camera is alright if it's your first one since it's so easy to use but, after a while you notice what a waste of money it is. Like some other people, I got this camera for Christmas and thought it was great! So, after a month when I dropped it and it shattered, I bought the same one. Bad idea. Sometimes the pictures just show up as static or with a green or blueish tone. The flash barely works and it really does eat up the batteries. I never ever used the LCD screen because the batteries would die in about 2 minutes. Also, you can't access the main menu without the LCD and the LCD doesn't work when the batteries are low. I would still use this camera because I really would rather not spend money on a 3rd one in 2 years however, the USB cable broke and I haven't been able to find one I can buy seperately.




Tip: For young kids, it's an alright buy because they probably won't know the difference. My 12 year old cousin loves his.

This camera is awesome. All of the pictures I take come out crystal clear and It doesn't eat up my batteries. And for that women who got a bad one, oh well you should've traded it in for a correctly working one. Mine is great all of the moments I want to catch with my friends come out awesome. I am very smart and I know for the price this camera is selling for on the internet and in stores, it is better than more expensive camera's dollar cameras. My dad uses mine now. That's all.

Takes great pictures, but however it is a little bit expensive and it could use some more memory. 4 stars for PhotoSmart.

The 435 is an excellent camera for its small price. For a 100-dollar-camera, its tools are very useful, and even surprising. It's so easy that even a small child can use it, with no problems. All buttons are well-identified, and all options inside the camera are well-explained. The joystick is well-placed, specially to the right-handed people. Its design's very attractive, too.
But the absence of an optical zoom, and the fast spent of batteries, even when it's not being really used, are two camera's problems.
If you photograph as a hobby, and don't want to spend a big craze of money in a camera, you can buy it confidently.

This was my first digital camera. I bought it because I've had good luck with other HP products, notably printers and a scanner. I will admit price was a major factor in my decision to buy it: $80 after the rebate. So far I haven't been disappointed.

The PhotoSmart 435 is gloriously uncomplicated and, I think, rather handsome. It avoids some of the stylistic excesses that clutter up some of its competitors. And it has a few surprising features for a $100 digital camera.

At 3.1 MP, the PhotoSmart 435 has a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536, which is enough to create photo-quality 8 x 10 prints. It has a minimum resolution setting of 640 x 480, but I've never used it.

The LCD is on a par with other slightly more expensive cameras, and is just large enough to compose pictures and easily navigate menus. In Live View, the LCD records through the lens, rather than the viewfinder. To conserve power, it goes to sleep in a short time.

It also has 16M of built-in memory, which allows for up to 13 high resolution photos. You'll probably want to buy a larger memory card. It can take 32M, 64M, or 128M Secure Digital (SD) or Multi Media Card (MMC) cards. The built-in memory is disabled as long as a card is in it. But when you're out somewhere and have filled up your memory card, you can remove it and have 16M of memory again.

Since it has no optical zoom (digital zoom is pretty useless), it is limited to snapshots. It does best with outdoor shots anywhere from a few feet to infinity. In fact, it produces surprisingly good pictures under those conditions. It does less well with indoor shots, especially without the flash. It doesn't do close-ups.

The accompanying CD includes some useful software - HP's Photo and Imaging software, Memories Disk Creator (Windows and Mac capable), and Hemera's Greeting Card Creator (for Windows only). I didn't install it because it duplicates software already on my iBook.

Downloading pictures to the Mac is simplicity itself. Just plug the camera into the USB port, turn it on, and iPhoto opens automatically. There's even an option to erase the pictures from the camera when the download is finished. Turn the camera off and unplug it. Some digital cameras show up in the finder as a drive which has to be ejected before unplugging the camera, but not this one. The camera comes with a dock insert, but I haven't found it necessary to use that either.

Power consumption is predictably heavy. It went through the supplied alkaline AAs before I'd taken a dozen pictures. With rechargeable NiMH batteries, it did much better. I use the Monster Cable MB 4-DCRC, sold by Amazon.

The PhotoSmart 435 is designed with the amateur photographer in mind, and because of its simplicity, it succeeds. If you accept its limitations and are looking for an easy-to-pocket snap-shooter, you can't go wrong with the PhotoSmart 435.

I won't pretend to be an electronics guru, but in comparison to the results I've seen from other digital cameras, the pictures I've gotten from this model are sub-par. Actually, it is quite a disappointment since I purchased this camera on the day my nephew was born so I could get some shots. Had I researched it more, I probably wouldn't have wasted my money.

Fortunately, I dropped the camera, broke the housing unit and now I get to buy another, better camera!

This camera works very well for people who are just learning how to use digital media. It has a 5x digital zoom, but no optical zoom. This means that there is no lens to give a clear picture when the zoom is in effect. In other words, the pictures come out looking far away without zoom, and with zoom, they look blurry and pixely. However, I have gotten some excellent pictures from this camera since I got it in December. It's just difficult to take more advanced photos. I would definitely recommend this camera to a beginner, but for serious picture takers, get something else

I got this digital camera after having my son last year and it has done well for just getting the BASIC 4x6 photos, though if you dont want a flash, thats too bad cause youll never be able to hold still enough to get a non-blurry (ie:good) picture. The red eye was pretty bad too in alot of photos, though the editing software that comes with is OK at taking the redeye out, though sometimes didnt work there either. Ive also had a few problems w/ the software stopping working and having to "re-load" it. I am upgrading this year to a different brand and more MP.

Hp could done better.
I have to shot off and on many times to just make camera on.
You miss important moment. Simply, You canot turn it on and off on time.
camera dock that came with not keep up the word either. It won't charge bettery as they promised. $149 is expensive if you talk about quality. don't buy it. just waist of money.

This is, to put it bluntly, one of the worst cameras ever created by man. It's not even good for beginners or people who want to simply document their life experiences. A disposable camera is 100 times better for beginners.

Because you can read all about the technical specs of this product, I'll give you a basic idea of what it's actually like to use it:

This camera has absolutely horrible picture quality. Not that I'm allowed to complain for buying a 3.1 MP product, but even for 3.1, pictures come out blurry and indistinguishable. I'm not asking for the pictures I take to show every little pore and mole, I'm simply asking that at the very least, the people I take pictures of are recognizable. This is usually not even the case.

Second, battery life. Or lack thereof. Just a few minutes ago, I opened a new box of AA Industrial batteries, took ONE picture, uploaded it, and accidentally left the camera on while connected to the USB cable. Two minutes later, it had run out of power. Maybe this situation was just my stupid mistake, but when you're at a wedding or important social function wanting to document your memories forever, the same thing is going to happen to you. The camera takes so long to focus (imagine playing a laggy video game) that by the time you turn it on, wait for it to load, wait for it to focus, and adjust your picture settings, either your magical moment has passed, your computer has run out of battery, or most often, a combination of both.

Simply put, this is not a good camera for anyone. Beginners will be completely frustrated, and intermediate users would never touch the thing. You could get much better ones for your money, and if you have to have digital, even a disposable digital works better.

I just went through TWO of these cameras--so many problems with the first one, HP finally sent me another. Also, problems with the memory cards (I've gone through three of those; again, HP sent me 1). Anyway, once, with a card full of photos, that I'm ready to print at Wal-Mart, the camera says " Unsupported card", another time the photo center machine says "No images found", and for awhile, no pictures taken with a flash would work. HP Customer Service said that was "not a problem", because I could still take pictures. MANY EMAILS LATER, (from me), I received a new camera ("refurbished replacement"), and after several more emails, a new memory card. Now it happens again, as I am printing photos of my children to send with Christmas cards, including photos of my daughter's 2nd birthday. Next time, I will buy a Kodak camera. VERY, Very dissapointed with HP, although I did get one helpful person in customer service.

I've had this camera for over a year now, and I only have a couple complaints about it. First of all, the screen is very small and the quality is not very good. You can't really see the pictures very well, and they look nothing like they do on your computer screen or when they're printed out. Also, the body is not very sturdy. I recently dropped this camera and it completely shattered and is now useless. However, if you use it properly, it's a nice little camera. The pictures always turn out well enough for me.

If all you want to do is take some quick snapshots, then this camera is sufficient. If you have it set to take the "best" quality pictures, even though you get fewer, the quality is satisfactory. "Better" quality pictures are also decent and gives you several more pictures per SD card than "best." The digital zoom is rather lacking, however. I don't use it that often as I've found the pictures are usually blurry and grainy. Same with the screen on the back. When the screen is activated, the image is green and very blurry and sluggish. I rather look through the little hole view finder than look at a sluggish screen. Plus, the screen is a major drain on batteries.

As for the video,...the quality is very lacking. All the video I have taken has been grainy, blurry, and the sound quality is very poor. You more often hear yourself breathing than whatever noise your subject is making and if you speak...your voice is distorted and much louder than your subject.

I've attempted to use the camera during low light situations and I found that it didn't function that well. Concert pictures were often blurred even if I stayed really still. Shots of the moon didn't even come out, even with the zoom all the way out.

I now have a 1 year old son who is constantly on the move and that makes it a little harder to have pictures that are not blurry. The "action" setting does seem to help, but not that much. Forget using the screen on the back...he's out of frame faster than lightning.

Also, I've found that rechargable batteries are best and last much longer than standard alkaline batteries. One complaint I have is that the sliding bar over the lens can be easily opened and can quickly drain your batteries leaving you without a camera.

On a good note, it is very easy to upload your pictures to the computer through a USB cable (which it comes with). You aren't required to have a photo printer or a dock.

For a free camera (I won it in a contest), I have to say that it has served its purpose of taking pictures. I have been happy with the camera, but now that I have a 1 year old, I want something of higher quality. I have taken well over 2000 pictures on it since receiving it in April 2004. I recommend purchasing a higher quality camera even if you only want simple pictures.

I was given this camera as a gift and it was possibly the worst camera I've ever had. My biggest issue with it was that if it's not bright and sunny out, the pictures come out horrible, despite whatever settings you're using. They either come out barely visible or have an ugly blue-ish hue to them. The camera eats up batteries like no tomorrow, the pictures are grainy, red-eye is a BIG problem, the camera itself is ugly and mildly bulky which makes it a pain to carry around, it has a very slow shutter speed[don't even bother trying to take pictures of anything that moves] and is all-around a terrible camera.
This camera is cheaply-priced for a reason.

(okay so im really 14... now 14 & under)

I really liked this camera. The pictures were actually quite fine. It went through batteries like... well there is no comparison to that. It like ate them like a fat kid eats cake?? Well that was really a pain. I also know that sliding lens covers protect the lens, but it turns on the camera. If i were to stick it in my pocket, I'd have just wasted a set of batteries.

The absolute worst and random thing about this camera was that it RANDOMLY deleted RANDOM pictures!! I'd take a great picture and then... it made it all fuzzy!! So it was no good!! That really got me mad. If I wanted to make sure I'd actually get a picture of something, I'd had to take it twice, or maybe even three times if I was really concerned. And this just happend RANDOMLY!! DO NOT BUY THIS. >.<

A very important thing about this camera is to NOT DROP IT. I dropped mine one too many times... and er, it doesn't really work well now!! It is useless. Yeah, you can take pictures, if you want it to look like it does when you don't get a TV channel (only its rainbow and you can see a faint outline of the object). So be careful... but if you don't drop cameras, and you don't mind random pictures getting deleted, this is a nice camera. :]

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.

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!!

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.

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.