I had bought my Mustek D35 about two years ago and while browsing through Google I stumbled upon this page once again. Just to clear up some questions about this camera I decided to give my opinion. When I received my Mustek D35 I was shocked to physically see how tiny this camera was and to add to the confusion of N. George's Mustek D35 my camera is a bright deep blue just as the photograph above shows. Also I agree with L. Bowers review and restate the camera needs a ton of batteries and light to work best and has a long boot up with long loading period in between snapping photos. Another problem I have uncovered with use of this product is the battery cover over time holding some rechargeable batteries had broken the small plastic latches holding the door closed. Now I have to use a piece of electrical tape to keep it closed and still have to remove the batteries when I'm done. Mostly I use my camera as an awesome microphone and as a cheap web cam. Since this is my first digital camera I have nothing to compare it to, but I would advise readers to look around.