Polaroid PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera Creative Kit 8MB SmartMedia Card

by Polaroid

Product Details

Product Manual [546kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.3 x 2.2 inches ; 11.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004YYOC
• Item model number: PDC640
• Batteries: 4 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,740 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 17, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Polaroid PDC 640 Plus digital camera makes digital photography easy and affordable while delivering outstanding image quality with improved resolution for crisper, more professional-looking photographs. With point-and-shoot simplicity and with all of the features normally associated with much more expensive cameras, the PDC 640 features a 1.8-inch LCD monitor/viewfinder, built-in flash, and self-timer. It has memory storage capacity in 640 x 480 mode for 12 images in superfine quality, 24 images in high resolution, and 36 images in standard resolution. In 320 x 240 mode, the PDC 640 will hold 96 images.

The PDC 640's accompanying Creative Kit offers everything "Cyber-shutterbugs" need to take pictures and download them to the computer. It includes an 8 MB SmartMedia card, batteries, PC cable, TV cable, AC adapter, camera case, wrist strap, camera and software instruction manuals, quick start card, and an online tutorial.

Product Description

The Polaroid PDC 640 Plus digital camera makes digital photography easy and affordable while delivering outstanding image quality with improved resolution for crisper, more professional-looking photographs. With point-and-shoot simplicity and with all of the features normally associated with much more expensive cameras, the PDC 640 features a 1.8-inch LCD monitor/viewfinder, built-in flash, and self-timer. It has memory storage capacity in 640 x 480 mode for 12 images in superfine quality, 24 images in high resolution, and 36 images in standard resolution. In 320 x 240 mode, the PDC 640 will hold 96 images.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Beginner/Intermediate Camers, November 19, 2000

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Chris Lawrence (Grasonville, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Polaroid PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera Creative Kit 8MB SmartMedia Card (Electronics)

High quality, reasonably priced camera. Could wish for brighter display outside. Easy to use. Recommend to also get the FlashPath adapter for computer (makes it easier and faster). Good buy for the money.

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good digital camera, November 10, 2000

By 

B. Lafosse (Canton, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Polaroid PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera Creative Kit 8MB SmartMedia Card (Electronics)

This camera is very easy to use. You can select different picture quality. I use it a lot to put picture on my website and find this camera very handy. Little problem, you cannot see the picture in the little screen if the light outside is too bright and the batteries doesn't last long. This is a great camera.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Polaroid Photo Max PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera Creative Kit, January 14, 2002

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"jodi_g_33" (Oregon United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Polaroid PDC 640 Plus Digital Camera Creative Kit 8MB SmartMedia Card (Electronics)

Keep in mind while your reading my review that this is my first digital camera so, i have nothing to compare it to.

*QUALITY OF PICTURES*
When I first got the camera I took a picture of my friends tattoo. I had it set to the highest level of quality, and enlarged it a bit before printing. From far away the print out looked very detailed and clear. But if you take a close look you can see that it is quite blurry, although it's not very noticable at first glance. If you want to get this camera I recomend it for web site and sending pictures through e-mail only. Don't replace your film camera with it, because the quality isn't as good.

*PROBLEMS*
-The batteries will go dead rapidly. You can only have it left on for about half an hour at a time, before they're completely dead and need rest.
-The photo editing software that came with the camera gave me problems. It worked for about a week, and then it wouldn't let me download pictures, let alone edit them.

*PERKS*
-Download time is considerably fast, it takes about 30 seconds per picture.
-It has an option where you can display your pictures on your TV (although I have tried numerous times and never have gotten it to work)
-It has a tripod socket, allowing you to take less blurry pictures because the camera will be still (doesn't come with the tripod though)
-It has 3 distance settings, allowing you to shoot anywhere from .5 ft through 10 ft.
-It has 4 image quality seetings. With the lowest quality you can store 330 pictures, and with the highest you can store 45 images.
-It has 4 flash settings. No flash, Red eye reduction, Autoflash, and Fill flash (which fires for every single picture.
-It has a self timer.
-It has an LCD screen, which allows you to look at all, or just one of the pictures you have previously taken. If you don't like how it turned out you can delete it to make room for other pictures.

All in all I think this camera is well worth the money if your a beginer looking to have some fun with a camera. I only use this camera if I am making a web page, sending pics through e-mail, or taking a picture I know I am going to need 3 or 4 copies of. But for the rest of the time I use my old fashioned film camera.