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Rating: - 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/

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Rating: - Takes great pictures
Camera takes beautiful pictures. Crisp and clear. The automatic lighting feature is great. I took pictures in my living room at night and they were clear and bright. But with the 16mb internal memory, if you have the settings to good quality photo taking (8mp), it can only hold a few photos in memory (8 pictures I think). I also got the camera for the video feature. Problem was, it can only take a 13 second video with the 16 mb of internal memory. Had to get a card. Luckily, they were on sale too so I got a 4GB card the next day. Now I can take 51 minutes of video. And the sound was very surprising. Of course the camera doesn't have speakers so you can't hear the sound till you upload the video to your PC. And I can store over 1000 pictures now.
Never had a digital camera before. I guess there's no getting around the lithium batteries cause the alkaline batteries they provided to get you started only lasted for about 6 hours. HP tech told me the zoom feature eats up a lot. Anyhow, takes great pictures.