Polaroid i1035 Review

I ordered the Polaroid i1035 from Tigerdirect a week ago, as a bundle package that included the Digital Camera Essentials, and a 2 GB SD card. I got this great deal plus shipping for the grand total of $107.00. The Polaroid i1035 package includes the camera, two AA batteries, Software disk, 1 year warranty card, and manual. The Digital Camera Essentials package includes a AA or AAA ni-mh/ni-cd battery charger, two ni-MH 2000mAh rechargeable batteries, tiny tripod, usb card reader, and a 128mb SD card.

I’ll be truly reviewing this product unlike the reviews around the internet that say the Polaroid i1035 takes crappie pictures and yet they don’t post any pictures. This is not a camera for serious photography but it does do great for the average persons photography needs like mine. If you want truly amazing pictures then don’t buy a point and shoot camera in the first place.

The Polaroid i1035 has 29 shooting modes. I’m not going to list them all but some of my favorites are, manual, sport, fireworks, soft flowing water, and panorama. With manual mode you can adjusts the exposure, the ISO (up to ISO 1600), white balance, and shutter speed. The sport setting will allow you to capture fast moving mountain bikers bombing down the mountain. The soft flowing water features takes pictures of the flowing water instead of a freeze frame picture. The best is the panorama function. The camera will only take 3 pictures and put them together. But with the software provided it will stitch the pictures to make a full 360 panorama.

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Here are the only problems I have with this camera. First off a rather annoying feature of this camera is when you want to switch to movie mode. You’ll have to click the picture/review/movie mode button. So from picture mode you press that button it will go to review, if you press it again it will go to movie mode, and then back to picture mode.

The biggest problem with this camera is the movie mode. No matter what you record whether it be talking, music, or just no sound at all, the sound on the video will have pops and noise in it. The video is basically rendered useless if you want to have sound. I’ll see what Polaroid has to say about that.

This Camera is great for the price I got it at. I wasn’t expecting anything super amazing because for that I know I would have to buy a $300 camera. What I needed was a very cheap point and shoot camera so I can keep posting photos with my trip reports, and that what I got. the Polaroid i1035 gets 4 SilverCG dudes out of 5.