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Title: Good when it works
Review: I purchased the Zoom 80 upon the birth of my now 2-yr old daughter. We immediately had problems with the film not loading. The store convinced me that I was not feeding it in properly. Needless to say it often took me 2 or more times to do this simple task. I then had problems with the camera not turning on all the time, requiring that I open & close the cover several times until it did turn on. Of course, when I took it back to the store it worked. This was a recurring problem during its short life.On the positive side, the pictures were generally sharp. The best features of the camera were its compactness & clamshell cover.However, don't let the "armored" case fool you. I just took the camera in to a repair shop where it was declared dead. The camera circuit board was damaged and would be too costly to replace. The repairman said that his guess was that it was knocked around too much. Granted, it may have been handled roughly at times but it was never dropped.
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