Yeah, sorry, no TL;DR version. You wanna hear this, read it.
Okay, long story short: My mother ordered a camera. It got sent to Calgary, Alberta, Canada instead of Ontario Canada because Canada Post are total and complete retards that UPS does better than in every way.
We call them up and bitch them out for being retards, then we call up the shopping channel (.com) and tell them Canada Post f*cked up. They send out another camera and put a trace on the first one.
Meanwhile, Canada Post's only good worker woke up and saw the mistake, and they successfully retrieved it from Calgary. Yeah, we ended up with both of them.
So I decide I'll take one, and pay for it. I call them up and tell them the story. Habib, from the middle of buttf*ck, cuts me off and says "We lost it, don't worry about it". I tell him we have it and I want to pay for it (yeah, my morals suck
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We make arrangements to pay for it, and I start playing with my new toy, the HP R937 camera with a 3.6 inch screen and touch screen interface. I love it. I zip through the menus, setting it up.[/long story short]
The problem begins when I take a picture. First, I notice it's numbered 0129. Unless I am mistaken, a "new" new camera should be "unused", being that "unused" is "new", and have a picture number of 0001. First clue something is wrong.
Second is when I take the SD card out of the camera and put it in the computer, and look at the picture full-size.
THEY. ARE. AWFUL.
"Grainy" would be the most generous description I can give them. Looks like static running through the entire thing. I snapped a few more with different settings, some actually managed to look worse than the original pictures I took.
Well okay, maybe I just have a sh*t unit. Lemons happen. I understand. I had a couple of those in my life that got replaced with the same model, and they worked fine.
Try my mother's camera (same camera).
Yup, pictures look the same as the other camera took.
I liked the fast startup time, huge screen, the touch interface, I wish my Nikon Coolpix S51 had that stuff... but yeah, if the pictures look horrible, then it's not really a keeper. <3 my Coolpix.
In short, I cannot recommend this camera to anybody. At all. Whatever. I don't care if you are a point-and-shoot artist, and you don't need an SLR or other super-camera, and you just want something to take for picture albums. Stay away. HP needs to stop spending so much time on the presentation, and make something that doesn't reek. They're not there yet.
Okay, long story short: My mother ordered a camera. It got sent to Calgary, Alberta, Canada instead of Ontario Canada because Canada Post are total and complete retards that UPS does better than in every way.
We call them up and bitch them out for being retards, then we call up the shopping channel (.com) and tell them Canada Post f*cked up. They send out another camera and put a trace on the first one.
Meanwhile, Canada Post's only good worker woke up and saw the mistake, and they successfully retrieved it from Calgary. Yeah, we ended up with both of them.
So I decide I'll take one, and pay for it. I call them up and tell them the story. Habib, from the middle of buttf*ck, cuts me off and says "We lost it, don't worry about it". I tell him we have it and I want to pay for it (yeah, my morals suck
)We make arrangements to pay for it, and I start playing with my new toy, the HP R937 camera with a 3.6 inch screen and touch screen interface. I love it. I zip through the menus, setting it up.[/long story short]
The problem begins when I take a picture. First, I notice it's numbered 0129. Unless I am mistaken, a "new" new camera should be "unused", being that "unused" is "new", and have a picture number of 0001. First clue something is wrong.
Second is when I take the SD card out of the camera and put it in the computer, and look at the picture full-size.
THEY. ARE. AWFUL.
"Grainy" would be the most generous description I can give them. Looks like static running through the entire thing. I snapped a few more with different settings, some actually managed to look worse than the original pictures I took.
Well okay, maybe I just have a sh*t unit. Lemons happen. I understand. I had a couple of those in my life that got replaced with the same model, and they worked fine.
Try my mother's camera (same camera).
Yup, pictures look the same as the other camera took.
I liked the fast startup time, huge screen, the touch interface, I wish my Nikon Coolpix S51 had that stuff... but yeah, if the pictures look horrible, then it's not really a keeper. <3 my Coolpix.
In short, I cannot recommend this camera to anybody. At all. Whatever. I don't care if you are a point-and-shoot artist, and you don't need an SLR or other super-camera, and you just want something to take for picture albums. Stay away. HP needs to stop spending so much time on the presentation, and make something that doesn't reek. They're not there yet.
