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This camera is great for a variety of styles: people who want scenic pictures, people who want frame worthy pictures, and people who want to enter contest pictures. I love the size of the LCD screen and the zoom is perfect. I sometimes make short videos too, such as when my sister was riding our cousins horse. It was beautiful.

Here are the pros and cons:
Pros~
-lcd screen
-computer downloading and editing quick and easy
-the zoom
-video making
-the size (compatible and durable)
-the picture quality (beautiful and I will mention this in the reviews next paragraph)

Cons~
NONE!

I said I would talk about picture quality, and boy is it amazing. I had a cousin of mine come over and we took pictures of eachother for fun. I was suprised at the beauty of our pictures and there crisp quality. For example: One of our pictures was of my cousin smelling a pink flower. You could see the flowers individual petals and her hair flowingly falling of her shoulder. And not a color was the wrong tint! Also, indoor pictures are fabulous! They look sharp and bright even though our house lights are dull and dim.

Sometimes, people get red eye in the pictures with there pictures. Well, that may happen on the camera but with the easy hook up to the computer you have no problem editing it. We have a memory card, so all you do is slip it into the panel, find the right picture, and open with a picture editor and edit away.

I would recomend this to anyone who wants best quality for the best price. I know I sound like a walking advertisement, but unlike ads I tell the truth!

This camera seems to take good shots outdoors in well lit areas but I use it mostly indoors and rarely like the effect that the flash produces so I often turn it off. This then produces blurry shots (I assume the lens is staying open to compensate for the low light) even if someone is just moving thier arm it most often comes out as a big blur. I also seem to notice an overall high level of noise in these situations, sometimes even with the flash. I don't think I'd be buying an HP camera again. If you plan on using it outdoors in the sun it may work great for you. I personally don't like the controls either.

I was initially wowed by how great the photos were, but the camera has a faulty battery reader - it was intermittantly shutting down when the batteries still had charge, and the battery reading varied wildly. I coudn't get HP's tech support to believe me - they had me do elaborate testing and because the problem was intermittant, I didn't get the right results. I got tired of waiting for them to call back & thought heck, I'll just make sure to carry extra batteries, I can live with this. The warranty expired last month, and weeks later something failed in the zoom lense - it will no longer focus and makes an awful whirring noise when turned on an off. HP is not a camera company - I'm getting a Cannon this time, but this was an extraordinary expense for a year's worth of use. HP is not the quality company it once was!

I've had this camera for maybe 18 months. It broke once-- pictures hopelessly blurry, NOT user error-- and HP sent me a new one. The second one is now broken-- the lens is retracted and won't extend-- and now I'm stuck because it's out of warranty and HP won't even repair it at my expense. When it did work, it sucked batteries like crazy. Do yourself a favor and find another brand.

Being very careful about my investments, I researched digital cameras in my price range ($200-$300) for a long time before committing to the HP 935. I went to several on-line review sites that had side-by-side comparisons, and one even offered image tests against the comparable Canon. I like color. Real life vibrant color. In all the tests, the HP beat the Canon. I bought it and haven't regretted it yet.

My entire online gallery is filled with examples and I have won awards at a national web site (33 times) against thousands and thousands of other images. Some people complain about the HP 935 image quality in low light settings. ANY camera in low light will have it's difficulties without the use of a tripod or manual settings if you wish to avoid flash. By using a tripod, and manually setting the HP 935 to aperature priority, 100 iso, turning off the flash and triggering it with the built in timer, the camera then automatically determines the length of exposure and is usually VERY accurate. I wish I could provide a link to some subground level images I took - the colors are vibrant, true and virtually noisefree.

If you follow the instruction manual, this camera will do everything PLUS....EXCEPT for produce speed shots. Sorry. That is where it falls down. It can not compete with the rapid shots of the cameras out there that cost 3 to 4 times as much. It is just SLOW in comparison. And I mean SLOOOOW. If I could change ANY thing about this camera, it would be to speed it up. But I like to think that the reason it is slow is that it has to take it's time to give me those great shots. Quality over quantity. ;)

Battery issues? Well - okay. But remember it takes a lot of power to make those great shots. lol Also, when the camera shows the batteries are drained, power down. Count to ten. Power back up. Instant battery life. BOTH of my HP's do this and reading other's feedback, I see this is common. You can do this sometimes for an entire day in the field but you still need to keep spares on hand. Eventually the batteries really are drained. (My Olympus drained batteries far worse)

Macro - once you learn the tricks of using this function, it is very handy!!! Until then, it might drive you batty. My Nikon and Pentax film cameras do the same thing this does, so I was prepared.

Telephoto - I rarely use it. less noise that way. This camera takes such large sharp images, I just normally shoot and crop what I need.

Not a perfect camera - just perfect for it's price range. That is why I bought a second one. Buy a tripod, rechargeable batteries and you will be set.

I bought this camera at Sears about a year ago. It was origionally listed as $353 but I ended up getting it for only $118. This camera has MANY cons and hardly any pros.

-->The audio is junk.
Anything above a whisper makes the audio clip so you just get this annoying loud ticking as audio (in videos and audio comments). It makes the video mode completely useless.

-->Picture quality isn't all too good.
I expected much more from a 5.3MP camera than this one offers. The picture quality on it's highest setting is all but decent. It's barely acceptable in any other condition than high light outdoors photography.

-->The flash is HORRIBLE!
There is absolutely no happy medium with it. it either over exposes the picture, or underexposes it. Any low light situation results in pictures with alot of noise and blurryness.

-->Battery life is NONEXISTANT!!!
This is the absolutely worst feature of the camera. It takes about 5-10 pictures on a brand new set of duracell photo batteries (the kind that cost almost $10 for a pack of two). Recently I was taking pictures of my girlfriend and I went through 22 Duracel AA batteries.

The only pros of this camera is that it's digital and not film, and that it boasts a SD card that my laptop has a built-in reader for. I was much happier with my Cannon Powershot S10 2.1MP camera.

I own a nice 35mm SLR camera with many differnet lenses and accessories, and I now use that camera more than the digital becuase of all the cons this camera has. I would rather pay to get my film devoloped and have decent picture quality than use this digital camera.


Overall rating: 1/10
Would be good for a novice user looking to make printouts from a photo center or computer, but for anyone that has a slight interest in photography, you definately need to look elsewhere.

I really love this camera. I got it two years ago for christmas, and I can't explain how much I love this thing! The only problems I have are that its impossible to take pictures indoors. Like at a concert or graduation or something like that. And the battery life sucks. But if you purchase rechargable batteries, it works much better.

I have owned this camera for approximately 2 1/2 years, and my experience has been very frustrating. Rarely do I get a good picture when using the zoom (very noisy). I have also experienced many problems with taking pictures indoors, and in low light. The most frustrating problem is that I can take multiple photos of the same scene with the same settings and get different results (some light, some dark, contrast inconsistencies, color inconsistencies). I have also experienced the battery drain problems that other reviewers have reported, but have had great results using Lithium batteries. About have the time, the camera gods smile, and the camera takes a great picture, but I've lossed two many precious moments to take another chance. Time to get a new camera.

While HP did a pretty good job with this camera, someone forgot to figure out how much power it takes to run it. If you have this camera, buy stock in a battery company just so that you can get some of your money back over the next few years. I have gotten as little as a dozen pictures out of a fresh set of batteries, to as many as 25 pictures using high end batteries 2800 mAh batteries.
Rechargeable batteries are a mixed blessing. The hp photosmart 8886 docking station will recharge your rechargeable batteries when you put the camera in, but there is no trickle charger feature built into the docking station. This means that your batteries will charge up, but then sit without any maintenance cycle to keep them topped off for you. So, your batteries may well be dead in a week or two even though the camera was on the docking station.
Not very well thought out at all.
Optical zoom provides good pictures.
Digital zoom starts going down hill very quickly to the point of not usable.
The video clip feature is very choppy, so not that great compared with other cameras in this price range.

All in all, I'd pass on this camera if I were to buy another one. The battery eating power needs are just too great to make this a user friendly battery.