Product Description

HP M737 Photosmart Digital Camera. Snap photos at 8 MP for beautiful prints. Zoom in for clear distance shots, using a Pentax lens with 3x optical zoom and 8x digital zoom. Easily see your photos indoors or outside on a 2.5 inch Auto bright Display. Get the photo you intended to take, using industry leading in camera red eye removal. Get more detailed photos with HP steady photo anti shake with ISO 400 and HP adaptive lighting technology. Easily snap your best shot with shooting modes including theatre, sunset, panorama and more. Recording your moving memories is simple, using one touch video with audio. Grab the camera and start taking photos intuitive buttons and easy menus make it a breeze. Get everything you need, including long lasting batteries and 16 MB of internal memory. Quickly store your favorite photos in an on camera folder for easy sharing. Snap a photo and decide right away where to e mail it, using HP Photosmart Share. Get beautiful prints almost anywhere with a compatible HP Photosmart snapshot photo printer. Get brilliant photos your way without leaving home using Snapfish, an online service of HP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30257 in Camera & Photo
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: M737
• Dimensions: 1.11" h x 3.83" w x 2.47" l, .93 pounds
• Memory: 16MB
• Display size: 2.5

Features

• Snaps Photos at 8 MP for Beautiful Prints
• Pentax Lens with 3x Optical Zoom and 8x Digital Zoom
• 2.5 Inch Auto Bright Display
• 16 MB of Internal Memory/ SD and SDHC Card Slot
• 0.40 Lbs (WxLxH) 3.83" x 2.47" x 1.11"

Customer Reviews

Value for your money is what you get with the HP M737
Getting an 8 megapixel camera for between $100 and $150 is a deal. This is not a Leica. But it has a Pentax lens, is easy to use, has many shooting modes, and Lo! it stitches photos together to create panoramas! The videos are fine VGA quality with sound. Join the youtube generation. The HP photo software that is included is good, but you might want to download Google's Picassa program for its many spiffy abilities (which do not include photo stitching for panoramas - use the HP program for that).

This is a splendid first camera. But I should talk. This is my fifth digital camera, which includes some Lumix Leica lens models. I bought this to carry with me (it is light and small enough) to get those shots that won't wait. I think this is the sweetest camera in this price range.

HP's site has more info on the camera than Amazon for you tekkies.

For a glimpse of what the panorama feature will do - try here if the Amazon servers haven't deleted the reference:

flickr dot com/groups/640266@N24/pool/

Behind the clunkines lay....great pictures!
I gave this camera a 1-day trial. Fair or not, here are my impressions.

The good: It really took some great pictures. Also for a camera that takes AA batteries it has a small form factor almost in the subcompact category. Delete button is handy for deleting unwanted pictures. Flash button is handy for turning flash on/off or to red-eye flash. Cool Panorama feature although you might need a tripod for it to really work seamlessly. Menus are straightforward.

The bad: Battery compartment door is hard to shut and it feels like it would break over time. The tiny slider that switches from camera to movie mode to display mode is flimsy and clumsy to use especially if you want to stop in movie mode. Movie mode is only 320x240 at 24fps. Limited options. Flash recharge time is long. Sometimes focuses on things other than your subject. Size. IT's not big, but not as nice and sexy as a true subcompact.

the ugly: The USB port is on the bottom of the camera which means you either have to lay the camera on its front or back when hooking the camera up to your pc. In other words you get to choose whether you would like to scratch the front of your camera or the back. (Ok you can buy a tiny soft pillow to lay your camera on.) The lcd display gets a nod here as well. It's just not that good. It doesn't do a good job of communicating whether or not you took a great photo. I felt the Canons that I previously used were much better in this regard. And another annoying thing was the camera seems to take a picture a half-second after you want it to even if you halfway hold down the shutter button to charge up the flash. It's also not a winner in the looks department. IT looks clunky. Last the zoom is not that good. The buttons don't feel that great and the zoom sorta "skips" rather than zooms in/out.

All in all this camera is a great value if you want pictures equal to the top point and shoot cameras and you want AA batteries and yet are willing to put up with its clunkiness. To be fair I am used to Canon cameras and so some of the clunkiness may be interpreted (perhaps) as just "not Canon."

For $93 now it's hard to beat in terms of money spent to get a great picture. Still I decided to return it and get a Canon SD1000is instead. IN a few weeks I'll see if it was worth it.

Loved It !!
When I bought this camera I hadn't been looking for a new digital camera for very long, my old one was really nice but it was bulky and outdated...I liked that this camera was small but not too tiny, it was a really good value...an 8mp w/ lots of extras for under $130!! ( even the HP home site couldn't compare with Amazon's deal + free shipping )and overall it seemed pretty idiot proof... ( I am completely challenged when it comes to electronics ) When I got it I was so excited to try it out...I took it to my daughter's dance watch night and with the video feature recorded her dance numbers ( with the extra SD memory card I bought ) It was very easy to upload the video and pictures I took onto the computer using the software it came with...I even figured out how to email all of it to out of town realatives without being reduced to tears! I would absolutely buy this camera again and would recommend it to anyone, the only suggestion that I have would be to get either a set of good rechargable batteries or lithium ion batteries...they may cost more now but they are well worth it...also, investing in an extra memory card or two is probably a good idea if you plan to use your camera a lot...I got a 2GB memory card on Amazon for $5 !! You won't find a better deal then that anywhere !!