Customer Reviews

Digital Concepts VGA Digital Camera with LCD Preview Screen

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I thought this was a really good idea. My kids love to take pictures, but often when they take pictures the roll of film has a lot of "bad" pictures on them. They aren't old enough to trust with our "real" digital camera. So how about a cheap digital camera the kids can use? Perfect! The problems are too many, though:

1 - The LCD viewer is so small and grainy that you can barely see what the picture is. That's the main problem. Kids want to see the pictures they took and they barely can.
2 - Very difficult to delete pictures, you can only delete the last one or all of them.
3 - As another reviewer pointed out, if the battery dies, the pictures are lost.
4 - I found it somewhat difficult to use, the kids had an even harder time.
5 - Worst of all, ours completely died. We got it in February and used it a few times, then I got it out a few months later and it is dead. Batteries are new, but it won't even turn on. I am in the process of trying to find out if I can return it.

Bought this for my daughter and she took lots of pictures at her birthday party, the tried to Download pictures. NO-DICE !
Tried all possible configurations, called tech support. they were nice enough,but, promised me a cable, then sent me a different CD, un-instaled, installed, called Tech Support again, tried many other things, still cant get pictures off camera.

This camera was of terrible quality. Be careful because on the box it even says - pictures only good from 5 feet away, and this isn't even true as those pictures are grainy and unclear. The online descriptions don't mention this at all and I was very frustrated after receiving it, I returned this product right after opening it.

At the highest quality setting, camera only takes 24 pictures, not 187. Download often, because pictures are lost if batteries go out. Preview screen is so tiny it is hard to see what you are taking a picture of (or have just taken a picture of).

Even at highest quality setting, image quality was extremely poor--grainy, distorted colors, blurry. Does not save images in jpeg format -- uses BMP format.

Our 3rd-grade son waited for three months for this camera because it was not in stock. When it arrived, it would not power on. There seemed to be some kind of problem with the contacts for the batteries. Guess we now know why it is so inexpensive!

I was thouroughly embarassed after giving this camera to my 9 year old goddaughter. She unwrapped it, put batteries in it and took one picture in which she couldn't even see on the so-called LCD display. She asked for my help and then we could not even get the camera on to take picture #2, as it died. Kaput. [...]! Now I have to figure out how to return it and my goddaughter had to have a belated birthday gift, once I scraped together some money to buy her a much better camera.

Understanding that this is an inexpensive camera, in all honesty I had a $25.00 camera that was so much better. The quality of the photo's is ok considering the minor purchase price, but I put brand new batteries in it yesterday (the camera was just purchased), took 5 photos which were saved to a memory card, and turned the camera off. I was able to take only two more photo's today before the batteries died!!! I can't say i've ever seen anything consume batteries like this in my entire life. Yes, I bought a memory card that can hold 50 photos of high quality, but it would take me about 10 packs of batteries to take them! Save the money you'll spend on batteries for a few weeks and buy something decent.

This camera isn't bad for the price. But plan on spending the money you saved on buying this cheaper priced camera on batteries for it...over and over and over again. At first I thought I just had a defective camera, but the more I've looked around to see if others have had problems, it seems alot of people have the same battery issues I do. It EATS batteries like crazy. After just taking a couple pictures I will start getting low battery warnings, and if you don't have a SD memory card inserted those photos are lost if the camera dies.
It seems this camera even drains batteries when it's not turned on. (Don't ask me how..I have no idea). I can use the camera one evening and the next morning turn the camera on and the batteries are so drained it won't even power up. I've used generic batteries, duracell coppertops, panasonic long lasting digital batteries. This camera drains them all dry within minutes.

I ordered this camera for my daughter for her birthday. I am in Iraq and I got on the waiting list for this camera. It finally got shipped to my daughter. Either she and my mom could not figure out how to get this thing to work without being plugged into the computer all the time or it was broken or malfunctioning when they received it. I'm not sure because I wasn't there. My mom called the shipper to ask about returning it and they said it was beyond the days required to return an item. I ordered this camera early because of the waiting list and then my mom saved it until my daughter's birthday. I guess with all that time, I ran out of return days. Oh well. Either way, don't buy this camera. I wish I hadn't. I guess when I get home from Iraq, I'll try and see if I can figure it out. Maybe it won't be a total waste of money.

When I first got this camara. I thought "not bad for $50". It took me forever to get it to take a picture that wasnt too dark or too bright. I bought it so I could put pictures of my crafts online for my craft business. I took 3 or 4 pictures and had to change batteries (lost the pics in the process). Then, finally managed to get about a dozen pictures taken (had to put the item directly under the flourescent light over my stove to get the pictures to be halfway decent). When I went to use it again after about 3 weeks, the pictures had these weird lines. I emailed the company and they sent me a replacement but I really dont want it. Bottom like this camara was a waist of $50.