Customer Reviews

DXG 568 5.1MP Compact Digital Camera

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

NDG stands for "no d@^n good". We got this for $40 less than the list price at a day-after-Thanksgiving sale at our local Office Max store, since our old standy-by broke the day before. Both hubby and I tried it out indoors, outdoors, for still photos, for mini-movies of the kid running around in the snow, etc over the long weekend and very few shots came out right.

This 5.1 mp model is marketed as an inexpensive, high quality, point-and-shoot pocket camera, but it isn't.

Either there was too much flash indoors, no matter what the lighting conditions, or the pics of posed people and Star Wars toys, taken for practice shots, came out blurry, despite repeated re-takes. And there was too much lag time on the shutter, so it was hard to take shots of our cat and kid.

It's small and good looking and does have lots of features-- sound & movie mode, internal memory with the option to use a memory card---for the price, and it included a case and the usb cable BUT I did expect to use it it to take decent casual snapshots and I can't. It requires too much work and fiddling to get it right, so it doesn't qualify as a point-and-shoot camera in my opinion.

My older Fuji Finepix 2600 Zoom model with 3 megapixels and a long shutter lag worked far better as a point and shoot camera. At the time we bought it, it cost $300+ and it is much bigger, so it won't comfortably fit in your pocket as the DXG does; I wish my Fuji still worked, but I must have dropped it one too many times in the 4 years we've had it and the battery compartment won't stay shut now and the lens has trouble popping in and out to zoom.

We'll be returning this DXG this weekend and will try to get a better replacement.

We'll be looking at the Samsung 4.0 MP Digimax model that Sears and Amazon sell and will also take a look at few of the Kodak Easy Share models, since we're trying to stay under $150 for this purchase.

Says it's a 5.1 MP camera, I don't believe it for a second. i took a picture of something 1 foot away and it is so blurry you can barely make out what it is a picture of! My camera phone takes better, clearer pictures (and my camera phone takes BAD pics). Plus, it makes stupid anoying noises.
I bought this to replace my HP Photosmart 735 camera that was stolen :-( and the HP, even though it was 3.2 MP took wonderful pics.
i thought $70 for a 5.1 MP digital camera was a good deal, but if i would have known what a PIECE this was I wouldn't have paid $5.00 for it. That's how bad this thing is!
I wish i could get my money back, but since i opened the package i'm stuck with this thing.
i also bought the 4.0 MP version for my daughters BD and i'm not giving it to her, cause it can only be worse than this one, although i don't see how...
i thought maybe it was just the LCD that made the pics look blurry, but no, they look worse when i downloaded them.
this company should be ashamed of themselves for taking people's money. now i dont have a decent camera for christmas and that's $70 I could have used for kids presents.... UGH! i could go on and on, but i think you get the point...

Bought the camera for (...)cause it came with a free printer. Glad it came with a printer, because this camera is a piece of junk. I have never had shutter lag this horrible; you click the shutter button and you have to wait well more than 10 seconds before the thing actually takes the picture. The screen is jerky too, reminds me of watching video on a 24.4 baud modem. Horrible piece of equipment. DO NOT BUY THIS. Not even for a junky camera. It is not worth more than $10! Plus, at $10, I still wouldn't buy it. I purchased this for my 3 year old, and I'm even dissapointed for her how crapy it is.

It works well enough. The shutter lag is kinda long so don't expect to take too many spontaneous shots. The picture quality is great after you change the settings. And the volume on the noises can be changed. Most the complaints in the other reviews can be remedied if you go into the users manual. The flash is pretty fierce so you probably shouldn't use it as often as you would on other cameras. Not the best digital camera out there but good for the price.

This camera is not remotely worth the money. Most pictures are blurry, washed out, or dark. The software crashes on WinXP Pro. My old 1.3M Olympus was heavy, slow and a battery drinker but it had great usability, optics and nice pics. This DXG is small, light, and the LCD looks great but what good is all that when it can't take a decent picture?

I've been asking for a digital camera for Christmas for two years now, and finally my mom broke down and purchased this one.

At first glance, I thought it would be a great camera. It seems snazzy, small, and to have all the features I asked for!

It claims to take 5.1 megapixel and to have all of these incredible functions...and I fail to see how this is even worth half what the price is!

I can't take pictures indoors with the flash because it's too bright! I've fiddled with this stupid thing long enough, and the flash just doesn't work. If you have the flash off, it's too dark. On, too bright. I took a picture a couple of feet away from my face, and you can't even see my nose and mouth because the flash is too bright! Also, sometimes, the flash button won't work and won't change your selection for the flash to be on or off. You'll have to turn the camera off and back on!

The pictures I took outside were ridiculously blurry.

I got this camera yesterday and am already sick of it!

What a HUGE disapointment! I can't even take it back because it's opened! DO NOT BUY THIS!

I have been using this camera for three months. Very poor picture quality unless the lighting is perfect and the camera held absolutely still. I expected more, even for a camera that cost less than $80. There are other problems (eg, battery life, recycle time), but by now you should have a clue that this is not something you will be happy with. You will be much better off looking at another brand.

I work at an office store that sells this camera, and I've played with it some. It's junk. Pictures only turn out tolerably well if everything is just right. You can't be further away than maybe 15 feet, or closer than 10. The lighting also has to be just right, which drives me crazy. To dark, and the picture is black. A little to light, and the picture is a white blob.

You can't actually use it in the real world, is what it amounts to. My old HP 735 takes far better pictures, and it's old and 3 megapixels.

This camera is garbage. I'd say probably 1/3 to 1/2 get returned for store credit. The pictures are usually unrecognizable, and the camera is prone to breakage. People buy this looking for a cheap camera; it ain't worth it. Pay a little more, and get at least a low end Kodak or something. There is a reason this thing is so utterly cheap.

I would expect better pictures from a $10 camera. We've only been able to get a couple of decent pictures after trying it out for a week. Way too bright with flash on inside and way too dark with flash off. Outside pictures are blurry and color is bad. Faces are washed out. Read the book and keep fiddling with it but it's just not working. Save your money and go get a Cannon or Olympus. Even the 3 MP will be far superior to this one.

This is my first digital camera and it is great for what I need it to do. It takes good, high quality photographs. Though, if you are more of a professional photographer, or want to take pictures of your kids playing, or running pets, etc, then this might not be for you. It's good for landscapes, and portraits. For me, it's a great camera.