MUSTEK DV5300SE 6-In-1 Multifunctional Camera (Silver)

by Mustek

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 1.6 x 3 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AA706C
• Item model number: DV5300SE
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,940 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 14, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description With 6-in-1 functionality and plenty of convenient features, the Mustek DV-5300SE makes it easy to capture important moments when and how you want. A 3-megapixel CMOS sensor helps to deliver crisp, clear images, in video or digital still formats, and you can also use it as a MP3 player, voice recorder, video camera or memory card reader.

DV-5300SE Highlights

Scene selection modes

Sport
Allows you to capture and shoot a fast-moving subject.

Night Shutter
Sharpens an image with a dark background and low lighting.

Landscape
Enhances color for vivid landscape photographs.

Sunset & Moon
Captures images with dim light surroundings.

Beach & Ski
Softens images with strong reflection.

Digital Effects

Reverse the color and contrast of a picture to look like a negative

Transform your picture into a black and white photo

Add sepia tone that looks like an aged picture

Create a hand sketch effect

Increase light contrast

Sharpen the outlines of subjects to look like a hand drawn picture

Product Description

6-IN-1 MULTI-Functional Camera (Digital Camcorder, Digital Still Camera, Digital Voice Recorder, Music Player, Card Reader, Text Reader)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value, May 14, 2006

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Reviewer X (Las Vegas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MUSTEK DV5300SE 6-In-1 Multifunctional Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

I have had this digital camera/camcorder for about 5 months. I have taken it everywhere and I love it. It takes great pictures, is easy to use and upload to your computer. The view screen is very good and battery life is decent for a digital camera.

There are some problems:
1) the stabalization in the video mode does not work very well and is too shaky.
2) the menu to change the settings is awkward in places and not easily figured out.
3) in bright light the LCD screen is not good and very, very hard to see.

For under a hundred bucks it is a great camera. I bought additional memory and the camera is more than serviceable. It goes without saying that if this camera was 200 dollars it would not be a good camera or a good value, but for a first camera it is excellent.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good buy for the money, February 5, 2007

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B. Lazarus - See all my reviews

This review is from: MUSTEK DV5300SE 6-In-1 Multifunctional Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

So, I had to replace my 17 year old Panasonic palmcorder. I knew I wasn't going to be continuing with a camera that utilizes a c size cassette. And, seeing as how christmas just came, I didn't want to spend a lot of money, or make a permanent decision on what kind of format to go with. I made my decision after reading many reviews on some of the cheaper models. At $59.50, how could I go wrong. From reading reviews, i knew I was buying a camera that wouldn't be great indoors. But, outdoors, the video it shoots is really quite good. And, even though I wasn't buying it for still shots, I was very impressed with the two shots i took of my daughter. The camera is tiny, and almost feels like a toy. The doors to the memory compartment, and where you hook up the wires are very flimsy, but, so far, so good. It does eat up batteries big time, but, if I decide to use this for a while, I'm going to get rechargeable ones. I've read some reviews on this model where people were complaining that it doesn't have enough memory. I bought a one gig memory stick for under 20 bucks. At under a hundred bucks you can't go wrong with this camera. Just don't have high expectations of using it indoors. Although, I did use it recently in an indoor situation with a lot of natural light coming in, and it came out much better than i expected. Combined with the price I got it for, I give it an excellent rating, but be very gentle with compartment doors. I am amending this review to 'good' on March 11th 2007 because one of the compartment doors is now in two pieces. And all I did was remove it the only way you can. And it just came off in two pieces. It does still go back on. It's the cover for the spots where the different input wires would plug in. I should also mention that the software with this camera does some pretty good things. I was able to edit out a short clip from a video and email it to a neighbor, and you can also make a jpeg from a video still shot. The zoom on this camera is digital, which I have now learned, is pretty useless. I've now learned the hard way that you need an optical zoom to be able to have any clarity as you zoom in. But, at under 60 bucks, it's still a fun toy. I even have mp3 clips loaded in and it does work well as an mp3 player. You can fill a memory card with music, and have a cheap ipod. But, who knows how long this thing will last?? It's a good way to learn the world of digital recording. And I didn't even get to the voice recorder...it works well.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible. Cheap cheap cheap. Not worth more than $10., January 18, 2007

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Matthew A. Kaspar "kaspa" (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MUSTEK DV5300SE 6-In-1 Multifunctional Camera (Silver) (Electronics)

Feels cheap, parts don't fit together, won't start with memory card in camera. The screen is smaller than the picture would have you believe - the screen doesn't fit when flipped down - the memory card door doesn't stay put - the over all feel is of really cheap plastic. Batteries last all of 20 minutes..

not worth a dime.