HP Photosmart R818 5MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom

price: $399.99

SKU: R817

Sales Rank: 332

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Product Description

Get closer than comparably priced 3x cameras, with 5x optical zoom (40x total, 8x digital)up to 70 percent more zoom than 3x lenses. Take exceptional photos at 5 MP resolution that make beautiful prints and enlargements.This stylishly small camera is made with durable stainless steel and fits easily in your pocket. View photos and menus easily on a bright, 2-inch image display.Exclusive HP Real Life technologies provide the easiest path to brilliant photos. Remove red-eye in the camera, get photo-taking tips, and automatically bring out details normally lost in shadows. Stitch and preview panorama shots right on the camera, and save high-quality VGA video stills to print.Easily take better photos in a variety of settings using 15 optimized shooting modes, including action, sunset and more. Express your creativity using the ultimate in robust manual controls. Get sharp focus for the best shot automatically with multi-zone focus.

Product Specification

Binding:: Electronics
Brand:: Hewlett-Packard
DisplaySize:: 2
Feature:: Stitch and preview panorama shots right on the camera
Powered by Lithium-ion batteries (two batteries supplied); stores images on SD cards (camera includes 32 MB of internal memory)
5-megapixel CCD captures enough detail for photo-quality 13 x 17-inch prints
5x optical zoom; 2.0-inch LCD display
In-camera red-eye; enhanced help menus; save and print single images from VGA video stills
FloppyDiskDriveDescription:: None
Label:: Hewlett Packard
Manufacturer:: Hewlett Packard
MaximumFocalLength:: 29 millimeters
MinimumFocalLength:: 5.8 millimeters
Model:: R817
OpticalZoom:: 5 unknown-units
ProductGroup:: Photography
Publisher:: Hewlett Packard
ReleaseDate:: 2005-09-01
Studio:: Hewlett Packard
Title:: HP Photosmart R818 5MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom
UPC:: 829160934334
Warranty:: 1 year warranty
MPN:: L2035A

Customer Reviews

Definitely pleased

I first borrowed an r817 (same as r818 except for color) from a friend for a trip to the grand canyon and a trip to Vegas. I was a little worried about the lack of a view finder (only LCD) because I thought it may not work well in bright light or might run the batteries out, but I quickly got over that worry.The camera did incredibly well in the bright sun light at the grand canyon and I never had battery problems. The panorama mode was awesome!I was able to create some phenomenal shots using it...

4/21/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Review of HP Photosmart R818 5MP Camera

This camera is awesome!I love the quality of the pictures.It is just fantastic.I love to take pictures of everything for my scrapbooks and I was really worried about jumping to a digital camera, but I wish I would have done it sooner!Great Camera!...

2/27/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Excellent camera

I love this camera. Its 5x optical zoom is great. You just need a good SD card (I prefer 1GB or 2GB). Comes with 2 batteries.Nice camera!...

2/24/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

good camera in a small form factor

The HP R817 and R818 cameras provide a good balance between small, convenient camera size, and good zoom. With a 5x optical zoom before digital zoom kicks in, it's very flexible, and can bring distance objects reasonably close.There are cameras with more optical zoon factors, but most in form factors much larger than this HP. There are cameras with image stablization (starts to become a necessity if you don't have a tripod and you're getting up to 10x), but again they would probably be larger -...

12/11/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews