Digital Camera Blog

If you hate the chore of touching up photos every time you upload them to your PC, HP’s 7-megapixel Photosmart R837 may be a welcome addition to your weekend. In addition to the standard red-eye reduction mode and some novelties you may never use, the R837 (View Photo Gallery) lets you do things like remove blemishes and fix red-eye without ever loading Photoshop.

At 5.5 ounces and one inch thick, this svelte silver camera is very light to hold and fits easily into your pocket. The slider on the front protects the lens and powers on the camera. The R837’s three-inch LCD is very bright (like the HP Photosmart R967’s) and fills most of this digicam’s rear. Like many point-and-shoots we’ve recently tested, HP doesn’t include an optical viewfinder. The R837 has few buttons, which adds to its clean design. Mode, flash, and shutter buttons, plus a slider to choose among photo, video, and review modes line the top. The other controls are on the right side of the LCD, including the zoom, back, and trash buttons, plus the four-way toggle.
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HP??s latest All-In-One device, the $99 PSC 1510, and I got off on the wrong foot. I faithfully followed all instructions, yet found myself sitting on the floor for 20 minutes, trying to find a way to insert the two ink cartridges. I was about to give up when the device shifted its insides so that finally in they went. I have used many printers in my life and wondered if this was my fault or HP’s. The printer then refused to produce a print cartridge alignment sheet the instructions said it would, and only did so after I turned the printer on and off several times. Now I had to scan that sheet and wait until the ON light stopped blinking, which it eventually did. Quite involved.
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