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Manufacturer: Argus
List Price: $44.99
Our Price: $44.32
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Name: Dr. John
Location: Atlanta
Date: 2007-12-12
Customer Rating: -
Summary: good starter camera for kids
Comment: I got this camera for my 5 year old after trying two other cheapo/kids cam's. While it is restricted in features (fixed focus, and smaller LCD screen) it is a junior model of a reasonable full feature camera.
It is standards based i.e. has a mini usb connector (comes with cable) and is recognized by win XP as a USB drive right out of the box with no drivers, it takes SD cards (it claims to use up to a 512 MB but one of my extra 1 Gig cards seems to be working, SD cards are really cheap these days now that SDHC is out at 4gb) and you will need one.
The other two cameras I got had weird connectors, flaky software drivers and propriatary non standard software editors and were really difficult to use even for me.
It takes decent pictures, where the other cameras I got for my kid took really blurry pictures and I gave them away as I did not want her to get frustrated and give up on digital photography.
Note: This is nowhere near film cameras and it is not to be compared with the Nikon, Sony and Canon cameras I usually use.
It does have a bit of lag on the display and when shooting, but it does have a "burst mode" that takes 3 pictures that works well and an movie function that records 60 seconds that works well.
The function buttons are easy to understand, it has a flash and the price is right. It keeps my kid involved with usable pictures.
For the price this was a great choice for my kid.
Name: Fuzzy
Location: Midwest
Date: 2007-12-12
Customer Rating: -
Summary: nice little camera
Comment: Pros: Price, Multiple resolution options, JPG files - no need to convert, USB cable included, SD slot, Rapid Fire mode - take 3 photos in succession, AVI movie capability, self-timer, viewfinder (you can turn off display to save battery life), flash: automatic/force/off
Cons: shutter delay, small display screen, confusing menu buttons, small 16MB SDRAM internal memory
Summary: for under $40 bucks, a nice little camera.
Name: stuart_b
Location: Kansas City, MO
Date: 2007-05-31
Customer Rating: -
Summary: I agree with all the negatives...
Comment: ...but I still like this camera.
I was looking at this thing for Christmas, but it went out of stock before I could get one. So I bought a Digital Concepts 2.1MP. Then I got this one after all (and for less money), and it's better.
Aside from the obvious difference in resolution, it has much better low-light sensitivity, showing an image on the LCD panel in a fairly poorly-lit room. As far as the issue of shutter delay, I suspect that has been overestimated by other reviewers, but it does exist. The worst thing probably is that you don't really know when in the sequence between pressing the button and the camera being ready for another shot it actually records the image.
The only other actual complaint I might have is rather poor battery life. But a writeup on another low-end camera reminded me that in order for the internal memory to retain images there needs to be a constant small drain on the batteries. And that's enough to take out a set of batteries in about two weeks. It would be ideal if the camera would go into a totally-unpowered mode if you put in a SD/MMC card, but I suppose that's too much to ask in a $40.00 camera. Trying to figure how to keep a reusable plastic strip in the battery compartment.
And being able to shoot short videos is a little bonus I hadn't even thought of beforehand. And the same thing I said about fairly low light applies there as for stills.
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Location:
Date: 2007-12-11
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Digital Camera
Comment: Just what we needed, an inexpensive camera that is easy to use.
Will be used by employees when they observe a problem at one of
our clients sites. Cameras will be placed in our vehicles so that
they are readily available to any employee operating the vehicle at
any location.
Name: N. Leitner
Location: Carmichael, CA USA
Date: 2008-04-08
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Great Kids Camera
Comment: I purchased a camera for my 10 year old grandson. My family are camera buffs and at first they thought it wasn't good enough for him. However, after a bit of time, everyone agrees that this is a really good camera for my grandson. Nancy
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