DC DXG-502 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

by DXG

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000799OMY
• Item model number: DXG-502
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,219 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 29, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Sporting a bright, low-power consumption LTPS display and 3x optical zoom, our 5.0 megapixel DXG-502 digital camera provides a sophisticated level of features for even more demanding users, yet continues the DXG tradition of supplying highly compact format cameras.

The 5-ounce, ultra-compact DXG-502 boasts a 5.0-megapixel CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom lens, optical viewfinder, built-in 16MB flash memory with external SD/MMC memory slot, MPEG4 video, six white balance settings, four still image settings (VGA, 3, 5, and 8 megapixel using firmware interpolation) and a USB 2.0 interface. The camera also offers a 4x digital zoom, bringing the total zoom to 12x. In addition, the camera has direct print capability.

What's in the Box:
DXG-502 camera, software, USB cable, video cable, bag, hand strap, driver, 2 AA rechargeable batteries, battery charger

Product Description

DXG-502

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Specifications But Not Realistically Usable, November 27, 2005

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Average Joe (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DC DXG-502 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Electronics)

Bought a DXG-502 for $99 from Shopko on 11/25/05 as part of their loss leader Black Friday specials. It included the camera, bag, lens cover, driver, NIMH rechargable batteries and charger.

After thoroughly reading the manual, I inserted two new high quality alkaline batteries while NIMH batteries were charging for the 190 minutes. The charger has a green-charged and red-charging light that is handy. The camera shut down due to low battery after two pictures (don't think the flash even was used). Hum! The alkaline batteries were new and checked with a Fluke meter. The manual does say that alkaline batteries may not be adequate and to use industrial alkaline batteries. Ok, so I waited the 190 minutes and inserted the NIMH only to have the camera give a low battery status after less than five minutes of configuration and no pictures. I'm thinking to myself, "Is this camera a battery hog or are both sets of 'new' batteries the problem?" Oh yeah, all configuration settings changes are kept during battery removals except for the date and time - kind of annoying.
Update: Recharged the batteries for fifth time or so and the camera worked for ~40 flash pictures. The camera has a ~10 second time delay between pictures when taken with a flash and ~ 5sec without.

Several times, the camera locked-up and wouldn't even turn off. After power cycling with the battery cover and a ~60 second delay the camera would turn back on and then allow me to resume taking pictures. Sometime during all this power cycling, the autofocus (no manual focus) stopped working with all pictures blurry (the front lens is clean and the rear LCD is fine). The camera was not dropped and the default configuration settings were restored with no help in fixing the autofocus. The battery display still shows fully charged.

The pictures were able to be uploaded to my pc and some looked real good while others were blurry but this is most likely due to the monkey on the button rather than the camera.

Bottom line, the DXG-502 has great specifications but appears to have some firmware and/or power issues. This is really too bad as I really wanted to keep this camera. Suggest looking elsewhere as this unit is going back.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dont buy this!!!, July 3, 2007

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J. K. Holder (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DC DXG-502 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Electronics)

I purchase this item a while back. The picture quality is definitely good. However, as the post below me, this camera just stopped working. I never dropped it or anything.

When I tried to sign up to the website for a warranty, the site is always down (or just simply doesnt exist). Go figure....

if you buy any products from this company, make sure you read the reviews to be sure the same problem isnt happening.