Customer Reviews

Concord EyeQ Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

(...) I thought the build quality was rather good; it felt solid; ive dropped it a couple of times and it's been OK. Pick up the Konica email and see how flimsy and plastic THAT is! Also for your shekels you get USB connectivity and a rather neat pouch that has a canny belt loop attached . Spend £400 on Canon IXUS V, as a friend of mine did, and you dont even get a case! How bad is that? Also its childs play to use from the off (unlike the IXUS), although you have to get used to the fact that its so small, learning where you can put your fingers, not covering the lens etc.
OK, its 'only' truly .3 megapixls but i needed it for a web business to take photos of properties and ive found it perfectly adequate.
OK you have to keep your hands still for a while after clicking , BIG DEAL!! (...) I admit it can be frustrating if u want to capture 'the moment' and the moment has passed and uve missed it because the camera 's still making its mind up. (...) OK, so what we're saying is DON't buy this if you've got Parkinsons.
For me the main benefit is its size; you can have it on your belt in any situation and you don't even know its there, no bulky camera round your neck swinging around. No big camera case saying "steal me, steal me" to any opportunist thieves lurking around. Its not mega expensive so you don't worry about damaging/losing it the same way as an IXUS or Nikon coolpix

The software it comes with OK; its easy to correct overexposure/too hot flash etc with software for those complaining about that (bits of scotch tape? what are you on about? Stand further back from the subject and use the zoom function (...) It even tells you that in the instructions. (...)
The battery IS a pain, they're not cheap and they're not rechargeable ( i thought lithium batteries were supposed to last a long time?). What's the point of saving £/$ on film and developing if u have to fork out every week on batteries? I think the optical zoom is greedy with the juice. Incidentally an OPTICAL zoom not digital as you so often get at the cheaper end of the market.
Ive even managed some 'arty' shots with it; its taken shots where 'normal' cameras would have completely failed me [how many times have I picked up my pictures from a developers in the past only to be totally disappointed with the grainy, underexposed results with those 'quality' stickers all over them]
You don't need to ponce about with memory sticks , cards, card readers (all more expense) because there's easily enough 'onboard' memory to last until you can get to a USB point on your laptop or internet cafe etc.
(...) It would be great if they upped the true pixel rating, included a rechargeable battery option and included a lens cover. My only concern is the report (...) that the LCD display cracked when left in the car but I know the inside of cars get pretty hot (Ive melted a couple of floppy disks in mine and thats in England!)It reminds me of something from Q Branch in James Bond and Im well impressed.

A friend let me borrow this camera to test it. My verdict was "Return this piece of ...". The whole camera stinks of low quality. Zoom, lenses, sensor, casing etc is of inferior quality. Picture taking is slow and cumbersome and the pictures ... This is a JamCam with zoom!!

This is really a 0.3 MP camera, 1.0 is by interpolation. Any imaging software can do that. No need for a camera to do that.

We compared the pictures with pictures from my Canon A20 using the resolution. There is a huge difference in quality.

Do yourself a favour and get a decent camera. Concord EyeQ is small and cheap. It's also ... wasted. If money is the issue look at Kodak DC3200, DC215, Olympus D100 ... There are a number of decent digicams for $200-250. All of them are a better choise.

THE ONLY ADVANTAGE THIS CAMERA HAS TO OFFER IS IT'S SIZE. TOO MANY DISADVANTAGES TO MENTION. HERE ARE JUST A FEW: 1)LCD BUILT INSIDE THE CAMERA INSTEAD OF THE OUTSIDE. 2)TERRIBLE PICTURES WITH RECOMENDED SETTINGS(VERY BLURRY). 3)NIGHT SHOOTINGS ARE TERRIBLE (FLASH IS USELESS). 4)TO SNAP A PICTURE, YOU HAVE TO HOLD THE BUTTON DOWN FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS BEFORE IT CAPTURES THE IMAGE YOU ARE SHOOTING. IT IS NOT WORTH THE MONEY! DON'T LET IT'S SMALL SIZE CAPTIVATE YOU .... I PERSONALLY WILL NOT RECOMEND THIS CAMERA TO ANYONE.

This camera is so great, It is so tiny, I take it with me everywhere! The microdisplay is bright and crisp. Only two minor complaints, the camera takes awhile to actually take the picture, and I wish it had a rechargeable battery. For the price is it really great and it is a very easy to use. The form factor and the microdisplay really seperate it from the pack. Since it is so small and I always have it with me, it is like having a portable photo album in my purse!

For anyone accustomed to the instant response of shutter releases on manual-focus film cameras, the one-second delay between "press" and "click" on many auto-focus digital cameras is bad enough. Imagine if, after pressing the shutter release, your viewfinder went dark (during which you're instructed to hold the camera very still), three seconds passed before the flash went off, and another five passed before a grainy rendering of your attempted photo appeared in the viewfinder in low-res LCD glory for _another_ five seconds before you finally got a chance to take another picture. Well, this, along with a fast-draining, non-rechargable lithium battery, is exactly what you get with the Concord EyeQ.

Yes, it's small, light, inexpensive, and a marvel of engineering. It's the cheapest digital SLR by several hundred dollars. And it drove me crazy in less than fifteen minutes of use. I'm sending it back.

I was really happy to see that there was finally a small digital camera available that also had an LCD screen. I have had it for a month now and was happy with the image quality, but not with the reliability of the display. I left the camera in my car for only an hour while I was sightseeing on vacation. When I returned and tried to use it again, the display was practically destroyed. It had lines all over it as if it had shattered in the heat. My previous digital camera LCD on the back did not have this problem. Before any one else makes the same mistake, you better not use this camera outdoors or in the heat. Otherwise, you will be disappointed to find out that the display is ruined.

I wanted a compact digital camera with some extra abilites, an optical zoom being one of them. Standard resolution is produced to make normal pictures and the in-eyepiece video screen is an amazing function. The ability to review and delete your pictures (up to 46 on standard resolution) without the tremendous battery drain caused by the LCD screen models is the most practical compromise I could ask for. All told, an excellent standard camera, not flashy, just useful. Exactly what I needed.

I was pleased with the photo quality and the amount of pictures I could take. Although I would have liked abit longer of a battery life. Camera is perfect for online pics if you don't need to print 8x10's and just want simple pics to email your friends and family.
Battery life was not terribly long, went through a battery in 3 days, but that is apparently normal with digital camera's.
The biggest problem that I had was with software to transfer the files between the computer and camera. It [stinks]. I had to remove the battery from the camera and replace it every time in order for the software to work, otherwise it would not recoginze the camera. I was using Win2000 Pro. I ended up returning the camera because of this, otherwise the camera is a good price and takes decent pictures. It might work better in a Win 98 environment, the box did not say that Win2000 was a supported OS.

I HAVE BEEN USING THIS CAMERA FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW, AND REALLY LIKE THE FACT THAT I CAN TAKE IT ANYWHERE. THE RESOLUTION IS OK FOR E-MAIL AND POSTING ON MY ONLINE PHOTOALBUMS, AND I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEAVE MY CANON EOS A2E AT HOME WHEN I AM SHOOTING MORE CASUAL EVENTS THAT I WOULD NOT WANT TO PUT ON A PHOTO ALBUM AND TAKE THE EYEQ 3X INSTEAD, ESPECIALLY ON DAY OUTINGS WITH THE KIDS. THE ZOOM ALLOWS ME TO COMPOSE MY SHOTS IN A ADEQUATE WAY.

THIS IS DEFINETELLY NOT A CAMERA TO REPLACE YOUR 35MM HIGH END, BUT A COMPLEMENT TO IT, THANKS TO ITS SMALL SIZE, YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT TO USE DEPENDING ON THE EVENT (I CARRY IT INSIDE MY EOS CASE!)

HOWEVER, IF YOU REALLY ARE SERIOUS ABOUT DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, AND WANT TO REPLACE YOUR CURRENT 35MM EQUIPMENT, I WOULD THEN RECOMMEND THE NIKON 990 (AT SLIGHTLY MORE - $!!!)THE EYEQ 3X IS MORE FOR FUN THAT FOR PRO SHOTS, BUT IS DOES THE JOB NICELY, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE PRICE.

OVERALL, I AM SATISFIED WITH THE EYEQ 3X, THOUGH I THINK THAT A TRIPOD SOCKED WOULD HAVE BEEN A PLUS, AND A LONG NECKSTRAP WOULD HAVE BEEN A NICE TOUCH TOO.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CAMERA LIKE THIS, BUT WITH A 2 MEGAPIXEL PICTURE SIZE.

The people who wrote positive reviews for this camera [had to be]... employees of Concord.... The viewfinder, the focus mechanism and the flash are all severely flawed. On the positive side...it is small!