Photographic joy

[Andy Sjostrom]

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J7L6/qid=1019068132/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/002-6711675-5547253">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J7L6/qid=1019068132/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/002-6711675-5547253</a><br /><br />Today, my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J7L6/qid=1019068132/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/002-6711675-5547253">HP Pocket Camera</a> arrived! Been smiling all day, and voilá! A camera arrives! I went outside and into our garden and tested it for a couple of minutes. It does take a while to get used to, I guess. The picture quality is quite ok given its size!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hppocketcamera.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/flower_1.jpg" />

[Joff]

Glad you like it Andy.
How much did you pay for it? A few months back I thought the camera was far to expensive for the picture quality it offers. Cheap cameras offer similar quality.

[JonathanWardRogers]

On the web site for Microsoft Portrait demo, they state that you can install the camera and software on an iPaq. Can you give this a try? I'd love to have a digital camera again (Casio is not supporting theirs on the E-200), and at $140 (stree price), this looks to be a steal.

Jon

[Marc Zimmermann]

Got mine today, too. The picture quality of my initial tests is not great, but acceptable. I've yet to shoot normal daylight photos, though. Most digital cameras -especially in this price/quality segment- have problems with afternoon, evening and artificial light.

[Sven Johannsen]

On the web site for Microsoft Portrait demo, they state that you can install the camera and software on an iPaq. Can you give this a try? I'd love to have a digital camera again (Casio is not supporting theirs on the E-200), and at $140 (stree price), this looks to be a steal.

Jon


You can indeed install the camera drivers and software on and iPAQ. HOWEVER, the software you can install is Portrait, not HPs camera software. That loads but fails to run from all reports. So you don't get the camera functionality.

Unless some succeeds in tricking the HP software into thinking it is running on a Jornada, or Pretec releases their clone of the HP camera (with better resolution, I think you are stuck.

So you'll can be jealous, I got my HP camera when CompUSA had them on sale for $99 about a year ago. That was a fair price.

[JonathanWardRogers]

&lt;snip...>So you'll can be jealous, I got my HP camera when CompUSA had them on sale for $99 about a year ago. That was a fair price.


Ooo! You're mean. :cry:

I've been drooling over the pretec camera ever since I first saw it listed on Chris De Herrera's site (http://www.cewindows.net/peripherals/cfcamera.htm).

Has anyone tried out the Palmax cf camera on any other devices?

[Sven Johannsen]

Ooo! You're mean. :cry:


I did a couple of good deeds recently and felt the need to even out the karma :twisted:

I'm looking forward to the Pretec camera myself. The specs I read put it at twice the resolution of the HP camera, and the software will have to be multi-platform compatible.

Just as a neat use testimony, I have blown away some of my coworkers after a chalk talk session on a white board. Someone usually starts redrawing everything on a piece of paper and I can say 'hang on, I'll take a picture and email it to all of you." They get exactly what we discussed in full color (were engineers, we use all the colors).

[jeffmckean]

That is one of the greatest uses, Sven! Also, try twisting the focus ring for very close focus; you can get right up to snap parts of a document! (Sorta 007-ish there!)

[fgarcia10]

I bought mine a few motnhs ago, and since I use it the most for my job, it is a "business expense". Part of my job is to walk corporate housing apartments to make sure they are perfect before the guest arrival and also walk them after they leave to make sure they didn't trash the apartment.

Practice makes perferct and now I'm taking pretty good pictures. There was a review some time ago in Pocketnow that is very heplfull.Pictures worth a thousand words, and keep us honest.

http://www.pocketnow.com/cgi-bin/directory/content.cgi?db=reviews&id=220

[JonathanWardRogers]

Just as a neat use testimony, I have blown away some of my coworkers after a chalk talk session on a white board. Someone usually starts redrawing everything on a piece of paper and I can say 'hang on, I'll take a picture and email it to all of you." They get exactly what we discussed in full color (were engineers, we use all the colors).


I used to do the same thing. It was great. That's one of the things I miss the most about my Casio CF camera. I also used it for my journal. For years, I tried to keep a journal, but it was always too inconvenient. Then H/PCs came out, and since then I kept an audio journal, recording it off to tape. Then I got a CD burner, and periodically would burn my journal entries to CD. Finally, I got the CF camera and added that to my journal. Now, with CDs costing about 20 cents (US), I burn off everything to CD at the end of the day.

But, alas... Casio decided to drop their camera products. Now, it's back to voice recording. :cry:

Jon

[Tom_Gilheany]

Hmm... Seems like alot of us have acquired the camera lately.

I'm planning on using mine for my next set of business travel/trip-reports, since I'm approaching trade-show/lecture-workshop season again.

The last couple of years, people couldn't figure out how I had e-mail posted my trip reports so fast (including synopsis of keynote speeches
just as the show was closing).

This year, with the keyboard and the camera, I'll be able to post an illustrated report immediately after each day ends!

-->Tom