Agfa ePhoto Smile Digital Camera

Pros: none
Cons: the fact that it exists

I just went to Ebay and was grieved to see so many Agfa ePhoto Smile Digital Cameras being auctioned off, and so many people bidding on them. I wish I could warn them. If they would only visit Epinions and merely read the titles of opinions on this...

Pros: pretty cheap, small, well labeled
Cons: battery life, ease of use

My boyfriend purchased this camera because he wanted a starter camera and he had heard some raves about the camera. Well we got it home, pulled it out and started reading the instructions and figuring out what it could all do. Then we started taking...

Pros: It was free
Cons: Still not a good deal

You don't need to know a lot about cameras or photography or computers to know this camera's not something you want to waste your time with.

It's a cheap (both in monetary cost and in quality) attempt to get folks who want to jump...

Pros: Cheap, tiny.
Cons: Horrible image quality, pathetic battery life, no focus, the list goes on...

It is not often that I completely bash a product. I believe that just about every piece of electronic equipment has some kind of place with some kind of audience. Evolution of marketing, if you will.

Yeah. Then there's this thing. I'm not even...

Pros: nice price, easy interface, many features
Cons: problems with software and batteries, low resolution

I decided to try out a digital camera to replace my 35 mm "Zenit". I went in search of a cheap digital camera, because I have not experience with this cameras. I was not expecting a high quality. Not thinking that it was a wise investment, but...

Pros: light weight, good construction
Cons: buy a battery for every photo you plan on taking, don't plan on the photos being very good

I bought this camera for two reasons. 1) My wife was having a baby and I thought it would be a fun project to 'record' her monthly progress and send it via e-mail to family and friends. 2) I wanted a fairly inexpensive camera to take the pictures....

Pros: Compact, cheap, color, miraculously the software isn't buggy
Cons: Lens distorts, resolution is low, needs lots of light, gobbles AAs, looks toylike

Strike One: This camera has less than 1 megapixel resolution and only 2MB of non-removable memory.

Strike Two: This camera has a cheap, plastic lens that distorts worse than a store-brand disposable camera.

Strike Three: This...

Pros: Cheap, functional
Cons: Low resolution, quirky file transfer

First things first... if you're looking for a digital camera to replace your traditional 35 mm, this is not the camera for you. However, if you're looking for a simple camera to quickly capture an image or two to attach to an email or use in an online...

Pros: Inexpensive, has many features more expensive cameras don't, intuitive interface
Cons: Pixellation in photos, some software troubles, hard on batteries

After getting a surprise mini-windfall, I decided that I wanted to try out a digital camera. However, having had experience with poor indoor picture quality with my mother's flashless digital camera, I went in search of an inexpensive digital camera with...

Pros: Lightweight, simple to use
Cons: Picture quality is utterly awful

This camera is not worth anything to me, much less the $89.95 I paid for it. Like others who have purchased this camera, it was my first, and I wanted a simple, inexpensive digital camera to send occasional pictures by email. A very simple wish, I...

Pros: none
Cons: image quality, battery life, usability

Normally I prepare photos for the web by shooting them in 35mm and then scanning the prints or slides. This gives me excellent control over quality and resolution, but it's not the fastest way to proceed. I wanted a digital camera for quick web page...

Pros: Inexpensive, sleek looking
Cons: Substandard image quality, confusing software

Agfa's new Ephoto Smile is meant to be a sleek and inexpensive digital camera for the masses. It isn't - it's a big waste of time and money. The maxim "you get what you pay for" is completely true for this product.
The Smile has...

Pros: It is a pretty color and it is very compact
Cons: Where shall I begin?

We won a $100 gift certificate on the website www.buybidwin.com and decided to purchase this camera. Thank goodness it was free. The pictures are REALLY fuzzy and the colors are not very bright.
I have wanted a digital camera for a very long time...

Pros: Small size, attractive design
Cons: Short battery life, awful image quality, poor construction, terrible software

I bought this camera brand-new from a colleague for about $30. I wanted to give my mother something easy to use so that she could take snapshots and send them to use via e-mail. Good intentions.

I liked the camera at first, until I tried to...

Pros: None
Cons: poor quality

This camera is highly NOT recommended by this writer. I bought it on eBay, brand new in the box for $60. Advertised as easy to use, great quality. Well, I didn't expect great quality for what I paid, but I did expect to be able to take digital photos and...

Pros: Its cheap
Cons: Quality of Pictures, and the Company's lack of service to this customer

I purchased the e-photo smile camera in Oct of 1999, since I got this camera, I have not been pleased with the quality of the pictures it takes. I guess because of the low pixel quality, 640X800 the clearness of the pictures when viewed on my computer is...

Pros: None, period.
Cons: Everything from its hard instillation, too is unacceptable performance

After seeing all the other bad reviews this shoddy product got I kind of wished I had something different to say. Since I don't, it occured to me that maybe enough had been said about this camera; our fellow consumers had been warned off. But I was so...

Pros: Price
Cons: Limited capabilities, shaky software

Purchased through AOL member services. Intended for eBay photo's, unfortunately not up to the task. The feeble beep at exposure is hard to hear, there is no way to preview your image w/o a computer, clearing the exposures became a game of "work...

Pros: resolution and price
Cons: adapter and battery usage

My purchase of the AGFA ePhoto Smile was a first attempt at a digital camera. I plan to wait when digital cameras become more available for lens and filters.

My primary purpose of this purchase was to download to the computer rather than...

Pros: Cheap, easy to use. Good for web pictures.
Cons: Low quality, not for taking important pictures.

I picked this camera up from mobshop, and put it through
some tests. This camera has been given negative reviews,
so I was dubious of its quality.

I have to say it's not as horrible as some people have
painted a picture. The...

Pros: light weight; has functions; takes pictures
Cons: poor image resolution; high battery usage; not upgradable

This is the letter I sent to AGFA in complaint:

Thanks for taking the time. I suppose I have a few complaints about this product and I'd like to see if you can help me with them. I would be suprized to think AGFA would be satisfied with...

Pros: Great price
Cons: Just plain doesn't work.

I purchased the Agfa E-Photo Smile digital camera for my in-laws as a Christmas gift. It was easy to use, just point and click, we assume it took the pictures. However, once we hooked the camera up to the computer it would not upload the photos....

Pros: Ease of use, price
Cons: Poor image quality

I purchased this camera though AOL, swayed by the low price. My intention was to be able to easily upload pictures to eBay for auction sales. The ease of use and unloading of the images to my PC is a snap, but I'm very disappointed in the quality of the...

Pros: Camera is cheap and functional with a couple of options.
Cons: Smile is very low-end, not for the serious digital photo lover.

It's small, It's blue, and It's cheap. In saying that remember, you get what you pay for completely with the Agfa ePhoto Smile Digital Camera.

Features for this $80 camera are:

Selftimer/Next Button -- this selftimer has a 10...

Pros: tv-out, webcam capable
Cons: extremely poor image quality

I got my AGFA ePhoto Smile for free through one of PlanetJam's auctions. I am very glad that I didn't spend any money for it. I am a little disappointed that I even wasted my time to get points and bid on it.

Obviously I didn't expect great...

Pros: Cheap, cute.
Cons: Picture quality is useless

People will tell you that you get what you pay for when you buy this camera. That is not true. With this camera, you get less than you pay for.

I read all the reviews before buying this, but thought that I didn't need high resolution or high...

Pros: NONE
Cons: EVERYTHING

For $80, this was the biggest waste of money i have ever had the misfortune to part with.

Sure, this camera looks cute, but dont be fooled. This camera has terrible picture quality, terrible battery life, terrible functionality, terrible...

Pros: price, flash, easy to use
Cons: low quality pictures, eats up batteries

Considering the current price range of quality mega-pixel cameras nowadays, I didn't have very high expectations to begin with of my $65 camera (that came with free shipping though!). My only purpose for this camera was to take pictures of items I...

Pros: user-friendly
Cons: poor clarity

My mother-in-law purchased this camera off an aol special while visiting her daughter in Texas. She purchased the product because it was on sale. The camera is small in size and very compact, which is nice. The Photo Wise software that comes with the...

Pros: Cheap, small.
Cons: Bad quality, doesn't work sometimes.

Luckily, I didn't spend any money on this camera. However, I did receive it as a birthday present, and it's done nothing but disappoint me. When I first got it, the instructions and controls were hard to use, it took me a while to figure how to even...

Pros: cheap, cute, easy to use
Cons: extremely poor images

I bought this product at overstock.com because it was 40% off the suggested retail price($99), I had a $20 coupon, and the product page describing it looked really good. The software that came with it is easy enough to use and the camera itself is very...

Pros: Low price
Cons: Low quality service, pictures, software, and warranty

I bought this camera as my first digital camera and only expected to use it until I could make up my mind about a more expensive brand. Upon reflection, I should simply have shelled out the money for a Sony. I have had nothing but problems with this...

Pros: priced for value
Cons: not the best quality sucks battery power

Well after looking at others reviews, I can only say that they don't know what they are talking about. Not to insult anyone, but this really is a nice camera. For $85 this camera is great. It takes nice quallity photos and doesn't cost anything to...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Horrible quality

I bought this little blue camera for 85 hard earned dollars and was extremely displeased. The darn thing didn't work. This little camera, which has a resolution of 640x480 max, broke when I put the cord into it to upload my pictures. This camera is only...

Pros: none
Cons: all-should be taken off market

When I purchased my computer from IBM, I had the choice of choosing a free scanner or digital camera. I chose the free AGFA ePhoto Smile Camera-bad choice.

I had problems from the start with the program-AGFA said call IBM-IBM said call...

Pros: small, lightweight, can preview images on television
Cons: grainy images, distortion, poor quality images

I had always expressed a desire for a digital camera. My husband bought this camera for me for Christmas last year. I was so excited...until I actually used it.
The camera is small, lightweight and easily portable, about the size of a pack of...

Pros: Low cost, light weight, functional
Cons: Needs $50 power adapter not included. Poor resolution of picture.

I bought the camera because I wanted an inexpensive digital camera to send an e-mail photo of myself to e-mail pals in Poland and Korea. I liked the self-timer feature. The quality of the photo was okay if all you wanted to send was a 2 x 3 inch...

Pros: small, light, shiny, blue, cheap
Cons: stupid stupid stupid, don't buy it, i beg you!!

Lets put it this way, Agfa makes good products but they also make cr*ppy products. (Excuse my French) And one of these stupid products is the Agfa ePhoto Smile.


When I first decided to buy a digital camera I looked for a cheap, easy...

Pros: none
Cons: SUCKS,SUCKS, SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

I was a photo major in college so one would think I could get a good photograph with any camera. But this camera defies those assumptions. I can't get a decent photo out of this thing. I mean I can't even see what I took o photo of. Sometime the flash...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Very low end

I bought this camera a year ago. Back then, there were very few digital cameras under $100, and this was a decent deal at about $60 on sale. Other cameras in its price range had resolutions of 320x240, or no flash, or some other features not as good....

Pros: Specs sound good (better than reality)
Cons: agfa lies about product specs

WARNING To anyone thinking of buying this Digital Camera, offering "VGA (640 x 480 pixels) image resolution with Agfa PhotoGenie™ technology" (quote taken from AGFA's web page for this monster, the URL is:

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Pros: small size
Cons: just about everything about it

We bought the Smile on impulse and it was on sale. We had been looking at digital cameras and sadly we did not do our research! This is basically a child's toy...the quality of the photo was very poor. And later found out that it for use on the...

Pros: Inexpensive, Smaller-Than-Pocket-Size
Cons: You get what you paid for.

I recieved the Smile as a gift last Christmas, and was excited to have my first digicam. That excitement quickly waned, though, as I realized the shortcomings of the product.

This camera has a resolution so brutally low that it is difficult to...

Pros: I'm still looking for one
Cons: read all opinions for the cons

I wish I would have read some true opinions of the product before I purchased it. I'm still trying to download the pictures into my computer. My brother has even taken it and tried on his computer, with no luck also. I've gone through 3 sets of...

Pros: none
Cons: everything about it!

Surely, from the title of this review you have already guessed it's not a very good camera!

The ephoto smile digital camera is what it's name sounds like; a "beginner's" camera. The camera's resolution and picture quality is that...

Pros: Absolutely nothing
Cons: Absolutely everything. Terrible picture, battery life

This is probably the worst piece of electronic equipment I have ever used. I know it was cheap when I bought it, but I was expecting low quality for sending quick snapshots via email or posting on a family website.

What I got was even worse....

Pros: dont like it
Cons: dont like it

To Whom it may concern:
I recently purchase a Digital Camera, AGFA EPhoto Smile...... I do not like it, it takes horrible pictures,
They are fuzzy, distorted, and just plain ugly color, I would like to return the camera, and get a refund.... I...

Pros: It was cheap
Cons: It is a battery eating machine!

I thought I was getting a decent low end digital camera. What I got was a battery eating camera! I was only able to take 10 photos before my batteries died. After going through a ton of batteries, I called AGFA who told me to get the more expensive...

Pros: Looks pretty, has extra functions
Cons: Doesn't produce decent photos without incredible effort

I bought this camera the same day I wrote my review on the Relisys.

I spent the rest of the week trying to make the photos look like, well,
recognizable pictures. I succeeded a couple of times. It only took me four days of hard labor....

Pros: Makes a good paperweight
Cons: EVERYTHING

Purchased this product from an Ebay auction for 80$. I wondered how good a camera you can get for $80 bucks, and I got one. Turns out the on switch was faulty, so the camera turned off all the time. Time to get pics into the memory took too long, battery...

Pros: at least it wasn't take expensive
Cons: very expensive for a piece of junk

I am an impulse buyer. I tend to buy things based on the little information provided by the company. Surprisingly, I am mostly happy with my purchases. I bought the Agfa eSmile and was totally disappointed with it. It was on sale for $90, but it is a...

Pros: cheap, E-Z to use
Cons: bad bad bad pictures

Ok,ok my mother bought this for me. My mother thought it was a "great" deal for only 30 bucks, boy was she wrong. After putting in batteries I went to take some pictures. I had to find something to take a picture of so I took pictures of my...

Pros: small, cheap, built in flash
Cons: picture quality, no USB interface

I was looking for a digital camera to help get some pictures of stuff to sell on auction sites. I figured at a resolution of 640x480 and a price tag of under $100 the Agfa ePhoto Smile would foot the bill. I knew with a resolution of 640x480 I couldn't...

Pros: takes pics
Cons: waste of money

this camera is meant to be cheap well guess what it is. I wouldn't buy it if i had the choice again. The agfa smile uses a lot of batteries and even when connected by ac adapter is still finicky. i had my cam a month and already had to return it...

Pros: it has a flash
Cons: feels junky

As I promised in my Epinion of the JamC@m (which you are hereby invited to read and compare), here is my write-up of the Agfa ePhoto Smile.

My Epinion of the JamC@m can be found at:

Pros: low price
Cons: everything

I wanted to buy a cheap Digital camera to try them out. Buy.com had a lot on clearance so I decided to try one.The picture quality was terrible, the flash worked intermitenly, battery life was awfull, a complete waste of time and effort. The...

Pros: It was free!
Cons: It was free...

I received this camera from a company who gave it to me for free. It was a good thing that I quickly searched through epinions.com to learn about this digital camera, because I was initially ecstatic when I saw that they were giving digital cameras...

Pros: Cute little blue camera
Cons: Everything else

I mistakenly bought this camera after experiencing bad pictures from my WWF Slam Cam (another piece of garbage).
Things were no better with this camera. The grainy pictures
were sad and weak. The delay after you push the button to take a...

Pros: cheap, light, small
Cons: bad quality, poorly made

For the price you pay, it is a decent camera. You have to keep in mind that you are getting this digital camera for the price of a few disposible cameras so you can't expect too much. The pictures are blury but it's useful if you just want to give...

Pros: SMALL EASY TO CARRY
Cons: TAKES BAD PICTURES

I bought this camera because of the price,100.00 at an office supply store.
bad move. The camera itself is easy to use but,
you can't tell what the pictures are,they are so distorted and i have tried everything more light less light nothing...

Pros: Good for scaring small children and a good gag gift.
Cons: or you can say there's nothing good about it.

My uncle came down for a visit and told me he was going to give me his digital camera. I was excited because my other camera, JamCam, sucked. I thought nothing could be worse than that, but I was wrong. I looked at the pictures he already took, and...

Pros: easy, compact, self timer
Cons: ahhh....it died!

SEE EDIT AT BOTTOM!!!

Original Opinion:
This camera is compact, lightweight and really easy to use! I have used it several times in the three days I have had it. One great feature is that you can delete a photo right after taking it if...

Pros: I sold it again on Ebay.
Cons: I kind of feel bad for the person that bought it.

I bought this camera through an Ebay auction. I spent $53 + shipping. I used it for an evening and noticed that I get what I paid for! After messing with it for a couple hours, I put it back on Ebay to auction off and hopefully get my money back. I...

Pros: inexpensive, compact, and looks cool
Cons: bad picture quality/ battery drainage issue

When I decided to purchase this product I was drawn to it's inexpensive price. I also liked the fact that it had a serial port connection. I have an older computer and it doesn't have a USB port. I also liked the compact design and cool colors.
...

Pros: pretty packaging
Cons: everything

This camera was a big disappointment. The pretty packaging
gets you interested, and what you read on the box makes it sound like a great digital camera.........WRONG!!!!! I got this camera to take family pictures, etc., and what I got
was...

Pros: size, ease of use
Cons: picture quality, battery use, no view

I have a lot of my folks antiques that I want to sell on the net. I wanted something simple and easy to use to get photos of them to use. This camera does not give brilliant clear pictures, but it does do just what I bought it for. It is a good...

Pros: cute, easy to use
Cons: quit working, poor quality pictures

I bought this camera to take pictures on vacation with my grandson & email back to mom & dad. The pictures were not good, considering that I bought the camera for $59.00 on an Office Depot promo I could have lived with the quality. The first...

Pros: Inexpensive and easy to use
Cons: Pictures are very grainy and seem out of focus

This camera is inexpensive, but it really isn't worth even the little amount of money that it costs. It is very easy to use, however, the end result is grainy, blurry pictures. Don't let those special moments be missed by using this camera to record...

Pros: NON
Cons: EVERYTHING

Simply CHEAP. You can't get any cheaper than this. But for this price, you are not getting anything. This digital camera simply SUCKS. The pictures are so pixelated, that you can't even see what the picture is of. I don't know how this company...

Pros: Priced right for a beginner.
Cons: Lack of quality customer service.

I am disabled and wanted to start a home business on the net. To do this, I needed a digital camera. Working from a limited income, I had the misfortune to chose this camera, because of the price. I took photos and hooked it up to the computer, after...

Pros: Nada
Cons: Hard to use, poor quality pictures, battery life.. ha ha.

The camera should be called the "e I hate this thing".

It is cheap, that's why I got it. It is very difficult to use. There are about 3-4 buttons controlling many functions. They are unclearly labeled, if labeled at all.

It is...

Pros: None
Cons: short battery life, poor resolution, no customer service, badly constructed

I purchased this over the 'Net. From day one it produced
cloudy crummy photos and ate the batteries. One virtually had to put in a new battery to shoot 16 photos. Trying to get my money back was impossible.

The companies 'customer...

Pros: none
Cons: pathetic picture quality; i guess what more could be a con in a camera?

very toyish. even for a low price, the design should have conveyed some seriousness. pity cant even give it to kids as even they want to take good pictures...!

It uses batterys and good for computer view but dose not print out well. I use the high res all the time low res was to me not even worth it