Review 5 of 11
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$289.00
from best buy Summary:I had a very bad experience with this camera. I have children and purchased it mainly for family photos and vacations. My first pictures came back okay and then the next came back with faint scratches. I thought it was the developers fault. Each subsequent roll of film showed increasing more noticeable scratches. I finally returned the camera and got another of the same model. ( I really wanted to go with a different camera but the customer service people at the store were awful.) It soon began to do the same thing . It seemed to be scratching the film when it was rewinding. You could hear it sometimes. When I was finally able to find a real person at Minolta he was not very friendly and not very helpful with the questions I asked. I sent an email question in but only receiceved an automated. The instrucion booklet reads that there are rewinding problems when using polaroid 35mm film. I believe there are rewinding problems with any type of film. I used mainly Kodak which is what is packaged with the camera. I could hardly believe that I got two cameras that damged film in the same way. I finally did exchange it for a different manufacturers camera. I had purchased a service plan from the store. This whole process took over a year to settle.
The pictures I took with the camera were not very good even when they were not scratched. The flash is terrible. Red eye is the worst problem. The red eye reduction feature is very slow. It makes 3 flashes before it takes and kids (and adults) either couldn''t be still that long or were confused by it. It did not always produce good results either. If you didn''t use it you would almost always have red eye with flash pictures.
The zoom feature is not as good as I had hope either. It only has set stops and ypu can''t stop it exactly where you want it.
The price has come down since I first purchased my camera and I think there have been some rebates. I my opinion, I think minolta is trying to unload these things before the word gets out. It was definely not worth the almost $300 I had to pay. I haven''t developed my first roll from my new camera yet. I hope it''s better Strengths:compact size Weaknesses:Problems with 2 cameras scratching film
Red eye awful
Red eye reduction feature too slow to be practical Similar Products Used:Nikon One touch
Olympus zoom 170 Customer Service:Inadequate- hard to talk to real person, not responsive on phone or email
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