Customer Reviews

HP Photosmart M22 4MP Digital Camera

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

I use it for backpacking and camping trips in the Pacific Northwest. I'm not a photo nut, just in it for the memories. I needed something light for backpacking and cheap incase the thing gets destroyed along the way. It has all the features I need and then some. It's light, compact and the weather resistance is a great plus. I took it out to Glacier National Park with a 256MB and it worked out great. Worked well in most lighting conditions. Got some great sunset shots. All in all, very happy with it for the $149 I paid.

i purchased this camera for myself, as i love digital photography. photoshop can do wonders. anyway, i take this camera everywhere i go and take pictures of random things, and play around with them on photoshop. this camera produces pictures at the perfect size i need. the LCD screen is just the right size and the buttons are not too small. the memory on it is horrible. it hardly holds any pictures. i recommend a memory card with about 52mb for a reasonable price. this camera is a great buy for not a lot of money.

I got this camera as an early birthday present. Less than one week later I had to return it. First the camera turns on by sliding a door that covers the lens over. This mechanism works only when it wants to. Half the time you can't even get the camera to turn on.
When it's on it immediately drains the batteries. I changed the batteries twice in three days.
Somewhere around the 6 day mark the camera just stopped working completely.
In addition the software takes forever to download and ended up corrupting many of my files during the installation process. The pics are ok at best. They are pretty sharp if you're just going to email pics but if you're going to actually be printing them out, the quality is subpar.
Overall a horribly disappointing experience and a waste of money. I have since exchanged the camera for another brand altogether and I am much happier.

I've always envied the others around me with digital cameras, but I finally recieved one for Christmas 2005, and it happened to be this one. It has a lot of different features, all of which impress me.

I've also read from other customers that the battery life is horrible, while not horrible, it has poor battery life.
But I've devised a plan to just keep the camera off when I'm not taking pictures. It only takes a few seconds for the camera to power up, so unless you want to take a picture of something that will be gone in 2 seconds, keep it on. But if you're just walking around and see something interesting, turn it on.

Just keep it off when you aren't taking pictures.

I also advise you buy rechargable batteries

i was scared this was my greatest mistake, since i bought the camera locally and came to amazon just to read the reviews aftewards.
if you use the right battery there is no problem. i have been taking lots of photos with flash for the whole week with and still going....
go ahead, buy it.

This camera is one of the first models since Hewlett Packard changed its OEM factory. Intitially photo file sizes were so large that many users were unable to easily or quickly send pictures, but as more and more people are using High Speed Internet Connections, such as cable or dsl, the larger photo files have become less of a problem.

Photos generated by this camera can also be sent directly to a photo quality printer for immediate printing without the use of a computer.

I have used this camera since May 2005 with excellent results in taking over 4,400 photographs. It has performed very well in rain & good weather. Everything about it seems to be of good quality. The reviewer that complained about the flickering display needs to have the batteries fully charged first or else use the Lithium batteries that are sold practically everywhere. I have had a couple of times that the camera did not turn on and it was due to batteries that were not fully charged... The problem was with a different brand of battery charger that said the batteries were charged when they really were not fully charged. A different charger solved the problem. It is a surprize to learn that some people have had problems with such a fine camera as the HP M22 Digital Camera. There are very few other digital cameras that are weather resistant and this is one of the few that is rain proof without the purchase of a special case.

This would be a really great little camera if it wasn't for the fact that I had to change the batteries several times a day. I tried using alkaline, NiMH rechargable, and lithium, and the results were exactly the same. When I sent it back and received another one, the exact same thing happened. For this reason, this camera was completely useless. There are other issues with the camera, but they're not even worth mentioning since the camera won't stay on long enough to notice. If I hadn't brought my old camera as backup, I would have been really upset during a recent 3-week trip to Europe.

I've owned this camera for two years and haven't had one problem with it. My batteries usually last 400-500 shots. Very few of my pictures have ever turned out bad, and those that did were operator error. The only problem I have ever had with it is the red-eye. I have added photos on this site that you can view....you can see for yourself. I just "don't get" the bad reviews that other people have put in.

I borrowed this camera from my grandson and almost didn't want to give it back. This camera takes awesome sunset pictures! Even better than my own expensive camera. So far, it's no. 1 on my sunset list.