Customer Reviews

Polaroid a310 3.2MP Digital Camera with 1.5" LCD Screen

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I bought this camera for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He likes it, but I wouldn't be happy with it. It's a good child's first digital camera. The flash isn't strong for taking low light pictures. The display on the back of the camera is also dark. If taking indoor pictures, anything more than 10 feet away turns out very dark.

well i bought this camera a couple nights ago and i was pleased with the looks of it and the price of it but when i turned it on i was unhappy to see that you couldn't see anything through the screen when i looked through it to take a picture! if i were you i would invest a couple more dollars into buying a camera that you can acually see what your taking a picture of!

I also had the same issues with this camera. Not able to see the display at all, it is so dark, you don't even know what you are looking at. I wouldn't really recommend this product-but hey, you get what you pay for!

I wanted to throw in my two cents since this camera's gotten a few bad reviews. I bought it for about fifty bucks brand new from Target over a year ago for my son who was 6 or 7 at the time. I didn't expect it to take great pictures and never planned on printing any--it was just for my son to snap away with and have fun.

It has several features that make it great for kids like a non-protruding lens, a washable, removable rubber protective "skin" and easy-to-navigate buttons and menus--not to mention it was cheap. For the same price you can only get about 100 pics with disposable film cameras and processing, and you really take your chances with no-name brand digital cameras in the same price range.

The bottom line is, this camera has held up admirably in over a year of being used by a 7-year-old and he still loves taking pictures with it--at his age he doesn't care much about them being "tack-sharp" or printable at poster size. If you play to the camera's strengths, though, you can actually get good pics.

I've bought two other sub-100 dollar Polaroid digital cameras and I've had absolutely no problems with any of them--and they've all been handled by kids 10 and under, and dropped at least a couple of times.

This looked like a simple digital camera with for my daughter 6. The specs & price was fine for kid yet not a toy. Out of the box we had the following issues:

As in other reviews the LCD is so dark inside you can not use it. It is black unless you point it at a light or window. There is no adjustment for brightness. Also no view finder.

So all you can do is point and click. This makes the camera usable inside.

I had some boot up and freeze issues

Also the camera does not all ways see the SD card I installed.

You can not delete pictures on the camera need to attach to PC or use a card reader could live with this if you use a SD card vs on board memory.

On nice thing if the camera worked it has a clear soft cover that would be good if kid dropped it. (Cover stays on when taking pictures.)

I purchsed this camera for my son who takes wonderful pictures. I gave him this camera for Christmas and had nothing but problems. The monitor is so dark that you can't see what you are taking pictures of. The only time you can see in the monitor is on a very bright sunny day. There are no settings to brighten the monitor. I sent an email to customer support then I received an automatic response to take the camera to a repair center. If you are considering buying this camera don't even waste you money. You will be frustrated and the outcome of your pictures will be horrible. I made this mistake and want to save anyone else who is considering it.

DO NOT CONSIDER BUYING THIS CAMERA.