Digital Concepts 5.1 MP Digital Camera (Silver)

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000P71WMI
• Item model number: 87490
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,221 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 5, 2007

Product Description

The 87490 Digital Camera from Digital Concepts is a 5.1 Megapixel camera with 4X Digital Zoom, color 1.5" TFT monitor, Expansion SD/MMC card memory slot, auto flash, self timer, and photags photo editing software,. This product is pictbridge compatible and comes with a one year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice camera for the price, July 9, 2007

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Alvin Maldonado "alvindchipmunk" (Debary, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Concepts 5.1 MP Digital Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

I just bought this nice little camara that is easy to use. 5 modes of pictures. Uses 3 AAA batteries for power and its a miser on the energy so the rechargeable batteries last longer. Takes great pictures as long as you have ample light. Small and slim fits easily into the pockets. If you buy this camera I suggest a piece of packing tape across the display screen to prevent scratches on the glass. One drawback is the flash sensor, it seems to be inadequate in the dark, works well if there is some light, however the picture looks dark. With practice that can be overcome.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely hideous & useless, February 10, 2008

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M. Dalrymple-Lepore (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Concepts 5.1 MP Digital Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

This is literally the worst camera I've ever encountered. My friend bought a super-cheap keychain camera for her young daughter, and THAT took better pictures. The color is horrible -- no depth whatsoever. The flash is extremely eager -- I took pictures of a green blanket on a black background under a light ( a situation that worked wonderfully with my FujiFilm), and it looked as if the camera just cut out the object entirely and left a pure white shape where the blanket was. Pictures without the flash are completely dark. But the kicker is that when you push the button to take the picture, a screen comes up to say "Photo taking. Hold camera still" and then it's a good 6-8 seconds before it actually TAKES the picture. And the buttons are plastic painted to look like metal.
Frankly, I can't believe any company could produce something so bad.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible flash, poor images, errors in manual, poor tech support, December 28, 2007

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Jeff Lindsay "Lead author of Conquering Innov... (Appleton, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Concepts 5.1 MP Digital Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

Very poor interface, very limited control over images. When you take a picture, you have to hold the camera still for over 2 seconds as the screen goes black and tells you to wait - but you don't know when the photo gets taken or what exactly you're photographing. Very hard to capture a moment, very likely to result in blurring and low quality.

Worst of all is the flash. The camera overexposes terribly when flash is used. I don't think the flash is too bright, but the camera seems to not adjust its exposure time to compensate for the presence of flash. I called tech support a couple times to address this issue. First they said they were too busy and would call me back within 24 hours. Almost 36 hours later, no one had called back. Then I tried again and finally reached someone. They told me that the camera just needed to be reset to the factory default. To do this, just take the batteries out and wait 30 minutes (i.e., go away and try calling us again later). He assured me that "everything will be alright" if I do that. I didn't believe it because we had that problem right out of the box with factory settings - and there are so few settings that it's hard to imagine what could be incorrectly set. So I asked to speak to a supervisor. When I reached the supervisor, he asked what kind of memory card I had in the camera. When I said it was a 1 GB card, he said that was the problem. The camera can only take SD cards up to 512 MB. Again, I was incredulous. First, how could that cause the problem? He said the bigger card put too much stress on the camera and made it unable to process the image properly. That sounds crazy. And second, I pointed out that their own printed materials state that it can take a 1 GB card, and pointed specifically to page 3 in the user manual, for example. Oh yes, they are aware of that typo and are working to fix it. Really?? So he said that all I needed to was run off to the store and buy another card with 512 mB or less and all would be rosy. I also asked why the first tech support guy gave me a different story. "Oh, he didn't know you had a 1 GB card." Right. Well, I borrowed a 256 MB SD card and found out, as I expected, that it made no difference. The camera grotesquely overexposes with flash regardless with 256 mB cards as well as 1 GB cards. And now that it has been over 30 minutes with the batteries out, I've also tested the initial "cure" and found, naturally, that resetting the camera doesn't solve its overexposure problem.

Even without flash, image quality is poor. Stick with your cheap cell phone camera or buy a real camera. This one doesn't even provide the basic functionality that you expect in a cheapy like this. And their tech support, if you can reach them, won't be of any help. Stay away.

Cheap doesn't have to mean ridiculously poor.

On the plus side, it is small enough to fit into a pocket. For best results, keep it there.