HP Photosmart 435

Opinion: Done with its mission (taking 0-1 yr baby still photos). It was broken when it was dropped. My nikon never breaks. It's easy to use because it has no features. I'm glad I only paid <$100 for it.

Opinion: I've had this camera for about 2 years now.
Poor construction. The entire camera is one mistake after another.
I don't recommend this camera unless you see it at a garage sale for 20 bucks.
The LCD is laggy and refreshes the preview slowly, the lens gets dirty very easily.
The biggest issue is the battery consumption. You get about 5 shots on fully charged Nickel Metal Hydrate batteries.
I recommend getting any other brand of entry level camera, or at the very least, the newer M23.
For those of you who want durability, keep looking. This cameras cheap, plastic body loves to break. I've had to fix it with spare screws and tape for many times now.
The only reason I didn't throw this camera away and get a better one is my lack of funding until now.
It is pretty easy to use, though. But that is more or less implied, because there's virtually nothing you can do with this camera except point it at your target, and take the picture.

Opinion: Would never buy it again.
LCD display is awful.
Big battery eater. 10 pics with alkaline batt.
Image quality is poor, not sharp depite colors look real.
Takes long time between shots.
Inacuurate batt indication.

Opinion: I just bought this on a whim yesterday. I found it on clearance at WalMart for $60. However, I'm still going to take it back.
Yes, like many point and shoot digitals that I've used with regular AA batteries this one does use them quickly, esp. with the flash and the display. My old fuji used 4 AA's and lasted somewhat longer. I'd say it's just below average.

It is small and works well with WinXP without loading any software.

It's hard to find a whole lot good that doesn't have more bad to be said.

It is really easy to use and set up if your even a little familiar with digitals.
The ISO can be adjusted a little, the flash can be turned on always or off or used with Red-Eye. I think the exposure can be adjusted a little bit also.
That's really all I can tell- it has some type of "sport" mode, but I don't know if it is really useful at this point - it still seems to have a shutter lag.

Opinion: ~~when purchased with hp photosmart 145 printer it's great to be able to take the printer with you and print the photos then and there.

~~BUY THE EXTENDED WARRANTEE! I purchased my camera 6 months ago. One day it simply wouldn't turn on. After chatting with tech. support it was determined that my camera needed to be repaired. But since I hadn't purchased the warrantee I was up that proverbial creek without a paddle. I do enjoy this camera enough though that I am currently searching ebay.com and amazon.com to replace it.

Opinion: Quite deasant as a first camera. Simple to use with average pictures. Consumes batteries quite fast, but still a bit better camera than I expected...

Opinion: Is perfect. And EVERYBODY KNOWS digital cameras eat batterys!!!

Opinion: Easy to use.

Opinion: Tried a chep one and got what I asked.
Very bad functionality. Exposure fails often.
Slow. Batteries empty all the time.
The camera just doesn't work properly.

DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA!