Polaroid t737 7.0MP 3x Opt/4x Digital Zoom Camera (Black)

by Polaroid

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• ASIN: B00175YQT8
• Item model number: T 737
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,403 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

Compact, Convenient, Stylish and Functional!The Polaroid t737 camera features a 7.0 megapixel resolution with a 3x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom lens. The large 3-inch LCD allows you to preview and review your shot.The t737 also features an auto enhancement, face tracking, enhanced red-eye reduction and anti-shake controls to deliver the perfect shot every time. With 16 MB internal memory and an expandable Secure Digital slot, you will be able to take all the pictures and videos you wish. Never miss another moment, order your Polaroid t737 digital camera today!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor, November 10, 2007

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A. Johnson "Word Chemist" (Springfield, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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My brother in law bought this on a whim. Let me save you the heartache. Not all megapixels are created equal. Do not buy a camera based on how many megapixels it says it has. It's the quality of those megapixels that count. If your camera takes bad megapixels you will have 7 million bad megapixels. This camera takes bad pictures. You can get a better camera with not very much more money. Save yourself the disappointment. It looks pretty though.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I've seen worse, but not much worse., November 28, 2007

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Aimee Genter (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this camera to replace a bulkier Kodak digital camera. While I love its size (small enough to slip into my pocket), there are a lot of things that are left to be desired:

1. The buttons are hard to read/navigate. My mom was looking for a smaller camera to replace HER bulkier Kodak digital camera, and couldn't even SEE the buttons on the back of this camera. They're printed DARK RED on BLACK, which is next to impossible to read or see and the buttons are harder to press when you have larger fingers. Every time I press a button, I feel like I'm breaking the damn thing. I thought maybe a backlight on the buttons would remedy the problem, but the backlighting on the buttons only activates for about 1/10th of a second WHILE you are pressing the buttons. Even if you could see the buttons, the icons on the buttons make absolutely no sense at all.

2. The memory card holder is cheap. My SD card slipped out no less than 3 times the first day I had this camera. The memory card didn't fall out of the camera completely, but just enough so that the camera couldn't read it and kept telling me "OUT OF MEMORY."

3. Flash quality is sub-par. It just isn't as "smart" of a flash as my Kodak. Most of my photos with flash end up with something stupid in the foreground REALLY BRIGHT in front of absolute darkness. In that same vein...

4. Auto focus may be mentally challenged. The first few pictures I took were out of focus and for what seemed to be absolutely no reason. I messed with the different autofocus features, and then I had to hold down the button for an eternity while it decided what it wanted to focus on. I know it's a cheap camera, but my last camera was cheap and was still able to figure out how to focus.

5. Image quality is crappy. As the other reviewer said, just because it says 7.0 megapixels, it doesn't mean that those 7 million pixels will be pretty. The color quality and edge qualities are horrible. The 'artifacts' and bad pixel blurs are unacceptable.

All in all, I hate this camera. My mom bought a new small Kodak for $90 at Target's Black Friday sale, and I wish I had known about it, because I would have waited for that deal. Now I'm stuck with a bum camera whose only redeeming quality is that it fits in my pocket.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Camera!, December 13, 2007

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MD - See all my reviews

I was searching for something portable, cheap, large LCD screen, and which allowed me to customize my settings to my liking, such as shutter speed, exposure, flash, etc., much like my Canon DSLR. Turns out, this little camera has alot of nice features that I find extremely useful. I found that it has many pre-set features that are pretty cool to play with such as B/W, Vivid, Blue tint, etc (my favs). PLUS, you can even capture video with the camera, which is a huge bonus, since i found myself using it more than i had expected. All in all, there are too many features to list, but i would highly recommend, especially given the price for a 7MP digital camera with a 3" display (which is very very nice).

Pros: Lots and Lots of nice features, small and compact and very portable, good battery life, 3" display that is superb, can capture both still and video, automatic and manual options, produces very nice photos and videos (for a $150 camera that is).

Cons: key functions confusing at first, no view-finder (would save on battery power), LCD always on (even when not taking photos), software not the best, camera settings reset everytime the camera is turned off, image stabilization not the best.

Verdict: my opinion is that the Pros far out-weigh the Cons. If I had it to do over, i would buy this camera again. While at home, i will still use my Canon DSLR over the Polaroid. Yet, when i travel, i will always take Polaroid, since i am learning to use it more and more each time.