HP Photosmart R927 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Average customer rating: 4.0

Great Camera!!
very good general digital camera
Defect and poor design
Great for beginners.
HP R927

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HP Photosmart R927 8MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: Photography
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000DZDPJA
2006-04-13

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Amazon.com Product Description

You can take stunning 8-megapixel photos with the elegant HP Photosmart R927 8MP digital damera with 3x Optical Zoom. This ultra-compact digital camera features a bright, indoor and outdoor 3-inch image display screen while being thin enough to slip in your pocket. With the latest generation of HP Real Life technologies, including automatic in-camera red-eye removal and HP Design Gallery, users can easily take brilliant digital photos perfect for printing and sharing.<P> The Photosmart R927 features a 3x optical zoom and 8x digital zoom for 24x total zoom, allowing you to take impressive close-ups. HP Real Life technologies help take the guesswork out of digital photography and make it easy to produce great photos that are crisp, realistic and true-to-life. HP Real Life technologies include an automatic red-eye removal to remove red-eye while images are still in the camera; an HP Design Gallery that adds artistic effects and borders right in the camera, with no PC or software required; an in-camera panorama stitching that allows the user to align, capture and review a panorama image on the camera and stitch up to five photos together to save as one image for easy printing without downloading to a computer; and a high-quality VGA video with audio that shoots at 24 frames per second and offers the ability to save still shots for printing.<P> <b>What's in the Box</b>
HP Photosmart R927 digital camera, HP Photosmart R07 lithium ion rechargeable battery, HP Photosmart 6220 digital camera dock, USB cable, quick start guide, warranty/regulatory booklet, CD with HP Photosmart software for Windows and Mac, user guide, and wrist strap.

Product Description

As a leader in optical scanners, printers, and PC products, HP is known for reliability and integrity. Underlying its resilience as a dominant force is HP's user friendliness and support. Get HP's latest technology in a powerful camera with 8.2 MP and 24x total zoom?3x internal optical zoom, 8x digital. View on a big, bright, 3" image display with a wide viewing angle, so it's easy to share photos from nearly any position. This small camera has a premium, metal finish and robust manual controls. Get the photo you intended to take, without red eyes or shadows on faces, using HP Real Life technologies. Get photo-taking tips with HP Image Advice, or print stills of VGA video clips directly from the camera. Easily transfer photos and recharge, using an included dock or choose an optional dock to view photos on TV. Snap panorama photos and stitch in the camera. Apply artistic effects and fun borders with HP Design Gallery, in the camera. 3 LCD (No viewfinder) System Requirements - Pentium 233 MHz, Celeron or compatible, Windows 98, 98 SE, 2000, Me, XP Home, XP, 64-Bit Professional, Mac OS X v 10.2.8, 10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4, SVGA monitor 800 x 600, 16-bit color, CD-ROM drive, Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher, USB port with USB 2.0, 200MB available hard drive space, 128 MB RAM Unit Dimensions - 3.78 x 2.16 x 2.44 inch / Weight - 0.44 lb (with batteries), 0.37 lb (without)

Customer Reviews:

Great Camera!!.......2007-06-12

I Love my camera, it was a Mother's Day gift! It has alot of nice features and takes Great pictures!! The only thing I don't like is that it is Very delicate. You really have to be very gentle with it! Not one that you want to leave laying around....This is a camera that you want to keep in the case until you want to use it....Well, I am Enjoying taking lots of pictures with it and HP is a great company to deal with for any of there products and Customer Service.......

very good general digital camera.......2007-06-04

This is my second general use digital camera, replacing a five year old Olympus which just became too slow between pictures, a software problem which I could not solve.

HP has developed an excellent camera in that all the options are available in the software of the camera itself. No more carrying the instructions book and frantically trying to find how to perform some functions. Now one can frantically go throgh all the steps on the screen until the function is found.

So far I am satisfied with the camera, I have not used it long enough to run out of battery and I bought a spare to keep with me at all times when that does happen. The memory in the camera is inadequate except for an emergency, but a 2 Gig card has taken care of that.

I have not gotten used to using to screen for shooting pictures as yet, I hope that by the end of vacation this month I have mastered the techniques for doing that. Too many years of shooting through a lens finder.

Defect and poor design.......2007-05-30

The product arrived defective: the camera's battery would not charge.
Even if the battery would have charge, the charging process was bad. That is because the camera's design required the camera to be placed in a two-piece plastic cradel in order to charge. Total impratical for travel.
On contacting HP about this--which was not stated in the specification--the response was you are correct,"traveling with the two picies of plastic is not pratical." We can solve that problem if you spend another $70 to get a small charger, camera bad and battery. The charger was not sold without the other items.

At that point, I just returned the product.

Great for beginners........2007-05-27

The reason I chose this one was b/c of the ease of use and potential quality pictures. The camera itself can be like a fun hands on instruction manual in photography. Very easy to understand and learn from. Overall i am only satisfied with the knowledge gained. Although the camera has the potential to take great shots (and i have taken a few that people dont even beleive was done with this camera)it doesnt satisfy my expectations. The docking station is a pain in the butt and the camera now takes me over 12 hours to charge. It only works when it wants to (the camera, and the docking station). At one point i wanted to find a waterproof casing and found it close to impossible. The casing i found was a waste of money. After just over a year of use for business purposes (taking people on hikes through Kilauea Volcano to view LAVA up close and personal in Hawaii) i am now ready for an upgrade. Considering the 10 mp G7 by Canon...

HP R927 .......2007-05-26

I already had the HP R707 (one of their first generations of the R family) so I knew that with the product description what I was getting. And I got a bundle of fun.

I know that there are a lot of people out there who bashed this camera because it doesn't do everything and doesn't take very good pictures that aren't sharp, or show weird pixelation. I think there is a problem with the user because I have used Olympus's, Nikons, and the such. I still prefer the HP line. There are lots of settings you can apply to get the camera to take pictures how you want to. You can control appature speed, you can change what type of lighting you are in. You can have the camera take the picture in 3 different ways. There are endless possibilities.

The thing with the shape of the camera and covering the flash with you finger is not a problem. The shape of the camera fits your hand well to make you hold the camera properly and to get a steadier picture. Its actually really comfortable too.

On the flash is too weak, that user had said that about another camera too.

I LOVE the artistic affects you can do. At first I thought it would be terrible, but you can make some hysterical pictures with the kaleidoscope.

The charging dock isn't that bad. Its smaller than having to carry around a charger with a huge block for a adapter.

If you don't like the way that HP software transfers the images there is a lot easier way to do it. Remove the SD card from the camera. Insert the card into a card reader (many cpu's have them built in). Go to the drive and copy or move the images to the desired location.

I have always used the panoramic and the program stitches it up pretty good too. I have so many stadium shots that are really cool with it.

The video mode is good for what it is. I didn't buy a digital camera to take a movie, but it has been a good bonus to have. Especially when you can save a frame as an image.

The battery in my last HP will still last a long time. You just have to remember to charge it up at least once a month like any battery.

I love this camera and for the price here at amazon, why would you spend $350 on something that can do the same/almost as much.

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